NC Gazetteer

Mount Buckley

A mountain in Swain County
… the southernmost of three knobs, the central one of which is Clingmans Dome and the northernmost Mount Love, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the border of Swain County, N.C., and Sevier County, Tenn., lat. 35°33'15" N., long. 83°30' W. Named by Arnold H. Guyot prior to 1860 in honor of naturalist S. B. Buckley (1809-84), Guyot's friend and sometime coworker. Alt. 6,500.