Mount Cameron (Colorado)
Mount Cameron is a mountain summit in Park County, Colorado, United States.
Description
Mount Cameron is set east of the Continental Divide in the Mosquito Range, which is a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. It ranks as the 2nd-highest peak in Park County, 3rd-highest in the Mosquito Range, and the 18th-highest in Colorado. The mountain is located south-southwest of the community of Breckenridge on land managed by Pike National Forest. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into the headwaters of the Middle Fork South Platte River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over above the river in.Etymology
The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, but there is no consensus as to who the landform is named after. One source claims that Simon Cameron is the likely namesake. Simon Cameron was the United States Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War, and Mt. Cameron is approximately one-half mile southwest of line parent Mount Lincoln.Another source claims that the mountain is named for General Robert Alexander Cameron, who supported the campaign of Abraham Lincoln for U.S. president and had ties to Colorado.
A third source states that either of these two gentlemen could possibly be the namesake.