NC Gazetteer

Mount Guyot

Also known as: Sornook
A mountain in Haywood County
… in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Haywood County, N.C.-Sevier County, Tenn., line near lat. 35°42'20" N., long. 83°15'30" W. Alt. 6,621. Named by Prof. S. B. Buckley prior to 1859 in honor of Arnold Guyot, geographer, who made the first comprehensive survey of the region and did much to stimulate public interest in the mountains. Known by the Cherokee Indians as Sornook