Talk:Sugarloaf Mountain (South Carolina)

Official Elevation of Sugarloaf Mountain
After some investigation, there seems to be some discrepancies in the official elevation for sugarloaf mountain.

Listed Heights from various sources
 * 513 ft - From SC Enyclopedia, with citations from two different books
 * 456 ft - From USGS geonames database. Listed elevations for named locations are derived from the National Elevation Dataset (10m-30m DEMs)
 * 467.8 ft - From NOAA NGS (National Geodetic Survey). This survey monument is a height modernization station, and elevation measurements were obtained using high accuracy GNSS observations. From personal knowledge, this mark is not "technically" the highest point of Sugarloaf Moutain. The top of Sugarloaf Mountain is not completely level, and a small portion may be a few feet higher than the benchmark.

Ultimately, I've chosen to go with the 3rd option, the listed elevation for the survey monument found via NGS. I am unsure of the first elevation source, and the second has an interpolated value from a DEM. The only in-situ measurement is the survey monument. User:Evanoco (talk) 14:26, 7 August 2020 (UTC)