List of geographical knobs


Knob is used in the name of many geographical features:
A number of mountains and hills are described as knobs, as are their associated settlements:

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  • Ehlers Knob, a small but conspicuous ice-covered knob which surmounts the west part of the north coast of Dustin Island
  • Elk Knob (Watauga County, North Carolina), a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, north of the community of Meat Camp
  • Elliott Knob, one of the highest mountains in the northern portions of the U.S. state of Virginia

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  • Hairy Knob, summit in Mason County, Texas, in the United States
  • Harrison Knob, a small mountain in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada
  • Hendersin Knob, an ice-covered knob rising between the heads of Craft and Rochray Glaciers in the southwest part of Thurston Island
  • Henry's Knob, a mountain and Superfund Alternative Site in York County South Carolina
  • High Knob, the peak of Stone Mountain, part of a large mountain, or massif, in Wise County, Virginia
  • High Knob (Blue Ridge, Virginia), a peak of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Warren and Fauquier county, Virginia
  • High Knob (West Virginia), a mountain summit on the border between Hampshire and Hardy counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle
  • Howard Knob, a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, located in the town of Boone

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  • Jacks Knob, a mountain located on the border of Towns County and Union County, Georgia
  • Jacks Knob Trail, a hiking trail that has been designated as a National Recreation Trail in Georgia
  • Jeptha Knob, the highest point in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky
  • Junction Knob, a small but distinctive peak at the junction of Odin Glacier and Alberich Glacier neve areas in the Asgard Range, Victoria Land

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  • Marks Knob, a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains, in the southeastern United States
  • McAfee Knob, feature of Catawba mountain in Catawba, Roanoke County, Virginia on the Appalachian Trail
  • Moore's Knob, the highest mountain in the Sauratown Mountains of Stokes County, North Carolina
  • Matney Knob, a mountain-like feature near Norfork, Arkansas

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  • Nausea Knob, a prominent outcropping of jumbled rocks on the northwest upper slope of the active cone of Mount Erebus, Ross Island
  • Nicodemus Knob, rough, lozenge-shaped 30-feet pillar left at East Cliff on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
  • North Knob, the highest peak in eastern Pennsylvania, east of Susquehanna River

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  • Ventifact Knobs, minor knobs located just east of Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley, Victoria Land

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  • Walsh Knob, a small but distinctive ice-covered elevation that rises midway along the south side of Lofgren Peninsula in east Thurston Island
  • Waterrock Knob, a mountain peak in the U.S. state of North Carolina
  • Webster Knob, a prominent rock knob at the head of Strom Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains
  • Weed Patch Knob, the third highest summit in the U.S. state of Indiana
  • White Knob Formation, geologic formation in Idaho
  • White Knob, Idaho, ghost town in Custer County, Idaho
  • Woody's Knob, a summit or "knob" in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Mitchell County, North Carolina

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  • Yorkeys Knob, Queensland, one of the beach suburbs of Cairns, the regional capital of Far North Queensland, Australia
  • Young Lick Knob, a mountain that lies in three Georgia counties, Habersham, Rabun and Towns