I would like to know the names and locations of all the mountains in
New England and NY state that are higher than 1,800 feet. The location
can be a town and state, or a set of map coordinates.

You needtoknowit...and so you shall.

The information you seek -- about 2700 mountains and hills in NY and
New England above 1800 feet -- can be found in this downloadable file
I created:


https://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=321GKR3M9HVXP1Z3UVFOL428DN 


Save the file to your PC, and open in a spreadsheet program (it was
created in Excel).  The file is about 1.5 Mb.  The link above is
temporary, so please make sure to save a local copy.

The file contains a list of all mountains and hills above 1,800 feets,
and includes the name of the mountain, its state and county,
elevation, and lat/long.

I created the lists -- one state at a time -- by using the wonderful
and slightly obscure geographic tool maintained by the USGS at:


http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form


Select a state, choose the elevations (both low and high -- I used
1800 to 18000 feet -- and choose "summit" from the Feature Type menu.

The resulting list can be copied and pasted directly into a spreadsheet.

Any problems or questions, just let me know.

Have fun,

pafalafa-ga

search strategy -- used bookmarked geography site

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Clarification of Answer by pafalafa-ga on 24 Feb 2005 20:32 PST

Forgot to mention that there were no hills in CT or RI that met your
1800 foot criteria.

Nice job.

Hello.. all the topographical / geological data you require, including
mountains, hills , hillocks.. for entire US & Antarctica will be
available here..

http://geonames.usgs.gov/

You'll have to download the text dump. Import it into excel / access..
filter out only the mountains / hills etc. and then sort out by their
altitude from sea-level. For all those above 1800 ft, you will have
the Longitude + latitude available.