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Three Top Mountain
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Highest point
Elevation 5,020 ft (1,530 m)
Prominence 1,269 feet (387 m)
Geography
Three Top Mountain is located in North Carolina
Three Top Mountain
Three Top Mountain
Location in North Carolina
Location Ashe County, North Carolina, U.S.
Parent range Blue Ridge Mountains
Topo map USGS Warrensville

Three Top Mountain (variant names: Three Tops) is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, located west of the town of West Jefferson. Its elevation reaches 5,020 feet (1,530 m) at its highest peak, unofficially named "Big Rock." Three Top also has ten other sub-peaks of varying height.

The mountain generates feeder streams to the North Fork New River.

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