Mount Graham, the crown of the Pinaleño Mountains, seen from Gila Box. In Graham County, Arizona.
The county is named after the mountain, and the mountain is named for an army topographic engineer who never set foot in Arizona. Who knows what the pioneers who conferred the name were thinking. There was an Apache name for the mountains long before the pioneers reached the Arizona territory, and probably an earlier ancestral native name before the Apache. The Western Apache name for the Pinaleños is Dził Nnilchí' Diyiléé (Pine Burdened Mountains) which is lovely and lyrical, and the Mount Graham prominence is Big Seated Mountain (Dził Nchaa Sí'an). We should have stuck with the Apache names.
The peak of Mount Graham reaches 10,700 feet (3300 m), and is usually visible from my home, about 85 miles (135 km) away, especially when there is still snow at the crest.