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Field Division of Education Mount Rainier: Its Human History Associations |
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MOUNT RAINIER MEASUREMENTS OF ELEVATION
| 1841 | By Lt. Charles Wilkes | 12,333 feet By triangulation from near Fort Nisqually. |
| 1870 | By James Smyth Lawson | 14,444 feet Barometric |
| 1888 or 1889 | By E. S. Ingraham | 14,524 feet Barometric |
| 1896 | By George F. Hyde of U. S. Geological Survey | 14,519 feet Barometric |
| 1897 | July 27. By McClure and McAllister | 14,528 feet Barometric |
| 1902 | By U. S. Geological Survey | 14,363 feet Barometric |
| 1905 | July 25. By Alexander G. McAdie | 14,394 feet Barometric |
| 1913 and 1920 | Government surveyors of the U. S. Geological Survey established elevation of mt. Rainier as 14,408 feet above seal level. Trigometric. | |
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