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A signal mountain or signal peak is a mountain suited to sending and receiving visual signals, either from its topographic prominence and isolation or from being located where signal communications are most needed. For example, Tennessee's Signal Mountain was used by Native Americans to send fire and smoke signals across the Tennessee Valley. It was also used by the Union Army as a communications station during the American Civil War. Mount Lassic in California has low prominence but is also known as Signal Peak due to the heliograph station that was located on this peak around 1900. And the highest peak in the Pine Valley Range, Utah's Signal Peak, is "supposedly named because of its use in World War II when beacons were placed on the mountain to guide airplanes at night."[1]
Mountains
Signal Mountain (Alberta)El Centinela (Baja California, Mexico) known as Mount Signal in the U.S.
Signal Mountain (Shelby County, Alabama)Signal Mountain (Valdez-Cordova, Alaska)Signal Mountain (Maricopa County, Arizona)Signal Mountain (Pinal County, Arizona)Signal Peak (Humboldt County, California)Signal Peak (Orange County, California)Signal Peak (Tahoe National Forest)Mount Wilkinson formerly known as Signal Mountain, also known as Mount Wilkinson
Signal Mountain (Coos County, New Hampshire)Signal Mountain (Grafton County, New Hampshire)Signal Mountain (Hamilton County, Tennessee)Signal Mountain (Scott County, Tennessee)Guadalupe PeakSignal Mountain (Texas)Signal Peak (Utah)Signal Mountain (Vermont)Signal Mountain (Virginia)Signal Mountain (Wyoming)
The mountain, in northern Baja California, dominates over California's Imperial Valley area, including over the town of Mount Signal, California, which is named for it.