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List of volcanoes in the United States
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This article contains a list of volcanoes in the United States and its territories.
Alaska
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Mount Adagdak 645 2115 210,000 ± 5,000 years ago Mount Akutan 1303 4275 1996 Alagogshak 1675 5495 43,000 ± 8,000 years ago Amak Volcano 488 1601 1796 Mount Amukta 1066 3497 1997 Mount Aniakchak 1341 4400 1931 Mount Augustine 1252 4108 2005 Black Peak 1032 3385 1900 BCE ± 150 years Bogoslof Island 150 492 2017 Buldir Volcano 656 2152 Holocene Mount Bona 5005 16,421 847 Mount Blackburn 4996 16,390 3.4 million years ago Buzzard Creek 830 2723 1050 BC Capital Mountain 2356 7728 1.02 million years ago Mount Carlisle 1620 5315 1987 Chagulak Island 1142 3747 Unknown Mount Chiginagak 2221 7287 1998 Mount Cleveland 1730 5676 2020 Mount Dana 1354 4442 1890 BC Davidof Volcano 328 1076 Probably Holocene Mount Denison 2318 7606 Probably Holocene Devils Desk 1954 6409 245,000 years ago Double Glacier Volcano 1239 4065 Pleistocene Mount Douglas 2140 7021 Probably Holocene Mount Dutton 1506 4941 Holocene Mount Edgecumbe 970 3132 2220 BC ± 100 years Mount Emmons 1436 4711 More than 10,000 years ago Espenberg 17,500 years BP Mount Fisher 1112 3648 1830 Fourpeaked 2105 6906 2006 Frosty Peak Volcano 1920 6299 Late Pleistocene or later Gareloi Volcano 1573 5161 1989 Mount Gilbert 818 2684 Unknown, fumaroles until 1948 Great Sitkin 1740 5709 2025 (ongoing non-stop) Mount Gordon 2755 9039 Holocene Mount Griggs 2317 7602 1790 BC ± 40 years Hayes Volcano 3034 9954 1200 ± 300 years Mount Herbert 1280 4199 Unknown Mount Iliamna 3053 10,016 1876 Imuruk Lake 610 2001 300 Ingakslugwat Hills 190 623 Holocene Isanotski Peaks 2446 8025 Unknown Kagamil Island 893 2930 1929 Mount Kaguyak 901 2956 1650 BC Mount Kanaga 1307 4288 2012 Kasatochi Island 314 1030 2008 Mount Katmai 2047 6716 1912 Kejulik Volcano 1517 4977 Unknown Mount Kialagvik 1575 5167 Holocene Kiska Volcano 1220 4003 1990 Koniuji Island 273 896 1150 BC Korovin Volcano 1533 5029 2007 Mount Kukak 2043 6703 Holocene Mount Kupreanof 1895 6217 1987 Kookooligit Mountains 673 2208 Holocene Little Sitkin 1174 3852 1830 Mount Mageik 2165 7103 500 BC ± 50 years Mount Makushin 1800 5905 1996 Mount Martin 1863 6112 1953 Mount Moffett 1196 3924 1600 BC Novarupta 841 2759 1912 Nunivak Island 511 1676 300,000 years ago Mount Okmok 1073 3520 2008 St. Michael volcanic field 715 2346 More recent than 500 BC Mount Pavlof 2519 8264 2022 Pavlof Sister 2142 7027 1786 Pogromni 2002 6569 Late Pleistocene Pyre Peak 1054 3458 1993 Mount Recheschnoi 1984 6509 3,000 years ago Mount Redoubt 3108 10,197 2009 Roundtop Mountain 1871 6138 9,100-10,000 years ago Mount Sanford 4949 16,237 320,000 years ago Mount Segula 1160 3806 A few hundred years ago Semisopochnoi Island 1221 4006 2023 Mount Sergief 560 1837 Pleistocene Mount Shishaldin 2857 9373 2023 Snowy Mountain 2162 7093 1710 ± 200 years Mount Spurr 3374 11,069 1992 St. Michael volcanic field 715 2346 Within 3,000 years St. Paul Island 203 666 1280 BC ± 40 years Mount Steller 2272 7454 Probably Holocene Stepovak Bay 3 1555 5102 Probably Pleiocene Table Top-Wide Bay 792 2598 Holocene Mount Takawangha 1449 4754 Last few hundred years Tana (volcano) 1170 3839 Mid-late Holocene Mount Tanaga 1806 5925 1914 Tlevak Strait-Suemez Island 50 164 Holocene/Post-glacial Trident Volcano 1864 6115 1975 Ugashik-Peulik 1474 4836 1814 Ukinrek maars 91 299 1977 Uliaga Island 888 2913 Holocene Mount Veniaminof 2507 8225 2021 Mount Vsevidof 2149 7050 1957 Mount Westdahl 1654 5426 1992 Yantarni Volcano 1345 4413 800 BC ± 500 years Yunaska Island 550 1804 1937 Prindle Volcano - - Pleistocene Mount Churchill 4766 15,632 700 ± 200 years Mount Drum 3661 12,010 About 250,000 years ago Mount Jarvis 4091 13,422 1 million years ago Mount Wrangell 4317 14,163 1999
American Samoa
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Malumalu - - Last 8,000 years Ta‘u- 931 3054 30,000 years ago Ofu-Olosega 639 2096 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption Tutuila 653 2142 440 CE 440 CE Vailulu'u -592 -1842 2003 west of unnamed submarine caldera and nafauna
Arizona
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Arlington Cone - - - Black Bottom Crater - - - Colton Crater 2,246 7,368 1075 AD Sunset Crater and Unnamed Fissure vents Double Crater 2,426 7,959 Pleistocene Lenox Crater - - - Maroon Crater - - - Merriam Cone 2,077 6,813 150,000 years ago Mount Baldy 3,480 11,420 8-9 million years ago Mount Elden 2,834 9,299 250,000 years ago Red Mountain 2428 7965 740,000 years ago Roden Crater - - 400,000 years ago San Francisco Peaks 3851 12,633 92,000 years ago San Francisco volcanic field - - 1075 AD ± 25 years SP Crater 2141 7021 5,500 years ago Stewart Crater - - - Strawberry Crater 1,989 6,526 Late Pleistocene Sunset Crater (San Francisco volcanic field) 2447 8026 1075 AD ± 25 years Uinkaret volcanic field - - 1100 AD ± 75 years Little Springs Pyroclastic Cone
California
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Amboy Crater - - - 23 million years ago 79,000 ± 5,000 years ago Big Cave 1259 4131 38,000 ± 7,000 years ago Big Pine volcanic field 17,000 years ago Black Butte 1939 6362 9,500 years ago Brushy Butte 1174 3852 12,000 years ago Burney Mountain 2397 7863 280,000 ± 6,000 years ago Cima volcanic field 1509 6925 15,000 ± 5,000 years ago Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds 2105 6907 1666 Inyo Craters 2629 8625 1380 CE ± 50 years Mount Konocti (Clear Lake Volcanic Field) 1312 4305 11,000 years ago Lassen Peak 3189 10,462 1917 Lassen Volcanic Center - - 1917 Long Valley Caldera 3390 11,122 50,000 years ago Malapai Hill 1304 4278 15.93 ± 0.08 million years ago Mammoth Mountain 3371 11,059 1260 AD ± 40 years Medicine Lake Volcano 2412 7913 1060 AD Mono Craters 2,796 9,173 1350 AD ± 20 years Pinnacles - - 23 million years ago Pipkin 770,000 ± 40,000 years ago Pisgah Crater 774 2,539 18,000 ± 5,000 years ago Red Cones 2,748 9,015 8,500 years ago Round Mountain (Clear Lake Volcanic Field) 696 2,294 10,000 years ago Round Top 538 1,764 10 Million Years Ago Mount Saint Helena 1,323 4,342 3.4 million years ago Mount Shasta 4,317 14,162 1250 Sutter Buttes 650 2,130 1.5 million years ago Tumble Buttes 2,191 7,188 10,000 – 15,000 years ago Twin Buttes 1631 5351 10,000 to 15,000 years ago Ubehebe Craters 752 2467 150 BC
Colorado
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Dotsero 2,230 7,316 2200 BC ± 300 years La Garita Caldera 4,274 14,022 26.3 Ma Never Summer Mountains 3,946 12,945 24 to 29 million years ago Summer Coon - - 24 to 34 million years ago
Hawaii
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Diamond Head 232 761 400,000 to 500,000 years ago Haleakalā or East Maui Volcano 3055 10,023 1750 Hanauma Bay (Koko Head) 196 642 10,000 - 32,000 years ago Hualalai 2521 8270 1801 Kaʻau Crater 462 1,516 35000 or 76000 years ago. Kaʻena Point - - Pleistocene Epoch Kahoolawe 450 1475 1 million years ago Kauhakō Crater 150 490 230,000-300,000 years ago Kawaikini 1,598 5,243 4 million years ago Kilauea 1247 4091 January 2026 (ongoing) Kohala (mountain) 1670 5480 120,000 years ago Koko Guyot - - 50 million years ago Koko Crater 368 1207 10,000 years ago Koʻolau Range 941 3149 40,000 years ago Lanai 1,026 3,366 1.2 million years ago Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount (Loihi) -975 -3199 1996 Māhukona - - About 470,000 years ago Mauna Kea 4208 13,796 2460 BC ± 100 years Mauna Loa 4169 13,679 2022 Mount Waialeale 1,544 5,066 - Puʻu Hawaiʻiloa 103 337 450,000 - 420,000 Punchbowl Crater - - 400,000 to 500,000 years ago Ulupaʻu Crater 201 659 600,000 - 400,000 years ago Waianae Range 1342 4,025 2.6 million years ago West Maui Volcano 1,764 5,788 320,000 years ago
Idaho
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Big Southern Butte 2298 7540 300,000 years ago Blue Creek - - - - Craters of the Moon 2005 6578 130 BC ± 50 years Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field 2805 9203 70,000 years ago (magmatic) / 1350 BC ± 200 years (hydrothermal) Juniper Buttes 1905 6250 - Menan Buttes 1713 5619 10,000 years ago Shoshone Volcano - - - - Split Butte - - - The Great Rift - - -
Illinois
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Hicks Dome 203 666 400-345 million years ago
Louisiana
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Door Point Volcano -2200 -7200 - 74-90 million years ago
Michigan
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Porcupine Mountains Central-Volcano 595 1,958 1.093 billion years ago
Mississippi
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Jackson Volcano -880 (from surface) -2900 65 million years ago Midnight Volcano -1110 (from surface) -3641 66 million years ago
Missouri
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Taum Sauk Caldera 540 1772 1.485 billion years ago
Montana
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Elkhorn Mountains 2869 9414 Late Cretaceous, 74 million years ago Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field 2805 9203 70,000 years ago (magmatic) / 1350 BC ± 200 years (hydrothermal)
Nevada
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Cottonwood Caldera - - - 15.70 million years ago Crater Flat (Southwest Nevada Volcanic Field) - - 80,000 years ago Indian Peak-Caliente Caldera Complex - - 18 million years ago Jessup area - - Jurassic Lunar Crater volcanic field - - 38,100 ± 10,000 years ago McDermitt Caldera 2078 6816 16.39 ± 0.02 million years ago Steamboat Springs 1415 4642 1.14 million years ago Soda Lakes 1251 4104 Holocene Virgin Valley Caldera - - - 16.38 million years ago Yucca Mountain 2044 6707 80,000 years ago
New Hampshire
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Pawtuckaway Mountains - - Cretaceous Ossipee Mountains - - Cretaceous
New Jersey
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Rutan Hill 310 1,020 Ordovician
New Mexico
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Albuquerque volcanic field 1,840 6,030 70,000-170,000 years ago Capulin Volcano 2,494 8,182 58,000–52,000 years ago Carrizozo Malpais 1,731 5,679 3,250 BC ± 500 years ago Cerros del Rio 664 2,178 2.2 million years ago Jemez Mountains 3,525 - 60,000-50,000 years ago Jornada del Muerto Volcano 1,565 5,136 760,000 years ago Kilbourne Hole 1,555 4,240 80,000 years ago Mount Taylor 2,445 11,300 1,500,000 years ago Shiprock 2,188 7,177 27 million years ago Sierra Blanca 3,652 11,981 26 million years ago Valles Caldera 3,430 11,253 50,000 to 60,000 years ago Zuni-Bandera volcanic field 2,550 8,366 1,170 BC ± 300 years
North Carolina
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Hillsborough Caldera - - 630 million years ago Morrow Mountain 276 906 550 million years ago Pond Mountain Volcanic Center 1517.904 4980 760 million years ago
Northern Mariana Islands
Major volcanoes of the Mariana Islands Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Agrigan 965 3165 1917 Ahyi Seamount -137 -449 2025 (continuing) Alamagan 744 2441 1887 Anatahan 788 2592 2008 Asuncion Island 857 2810 1906 Daikoku Seamount -323 -1060 Holocene Eifuku -1535 -5036 Holocene East Diamante -127 -417 Holocene Esmeralda Bank -43 -141 Holocene Farallon de Pajaros 360 1,180 1967 Forecast Seamount -1456 -4777 Holocene Fukujin Seamount -217 -712 1974 Guguan 287 942 1883 Kasuga Seamounts -598 -1962 1959 Maug Islands 227 745 Pleistocene Northwest Rota-1 -517 -1696 2004 Pagan Island 570 1870 2021 Ruby Seamount -230 -755 2023 Sarigan 538 1765 Unknown Seamount X -1230 -4035 Holocene South Sarigan Seamount -184 -604 2010 Supply Reef -8 -26 1989 Zealandia Bank 0 0 Holocene
Oregon
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Mount Bachelor 2,763 9,064 5800 BC ± 750 years Bald Mountain Caldera - - 3.4 to 4.6 million years ago Mount Bailey 2,551 8,368 11,000 to 100,000 years ago Belknap Crater 2,095 6,873 480 AD Black Butte 1,962 6,436 About 1,430,000 years ago Blue Lake Crater 1,230 4,035 680 AD ± 200 years Broken Top 2,800 9,185 About 100,000 years ago Brown Mountain - - 12,000 to 60,000 years ago Cinnamon Butte 1,956 6,417 4855 BC to 9,000 BC Columbia River Basalt Group - - - 6.0 million years ago Crater Lake (Mount Mazama) 2,487 8,159 2850 BC Crooked River caldera - - 29.5 million years ago Diamond Craters 1,450 4,750 5610 BC ± 470 years Diamond Peak 2,665 8,744 11,000 to 100,000 years ago Fort Rock 1,716 5,628 13,500 to 18,000 years ago Gray Butte - - 29.5 million years ago Mount Hood 3,426 11,237 1866 Jackies Butte 1,418 4,652 Holocene Mount Jefferson 3,199 10,492 950 AD Jordan Craters 1,400 4,600 1250 BC or later Maiden Peak 2,380 7,810 Pleistocene McDermitt Caldera 2,078 6,816 - 16.39 ± 0.02 million years ago Mahogany Mountain - - 15.5 million years ago Mount McLoughlin 2,894 9,492 20,000 to 30,000 years ago Middle Sister 3,063 10,050 14,000 years ago Newberry Caldera 2,434 7,986 690 AD ± 100 years North Sister 3,075 10,090 46,000 years ago Olallie Butte 2,200 7,219 11,000 years ago or earlier Pelican Butte - - 60,000 years ago or earlier Rocky Butte - - 30,000 to 90,000 years ago Round Butte - - - Saddle Butte 1,700 - 430,000 ± 90,000 years ago South Sister 3,158 10,360 50 BC Strawberry Volcanics - - 12.5 to 16.2 million years ago Mount Sylvania 298 978 1 million years ago or earlier Mount Tabor - 636 300,000 years ago or earlier Mount Thielsen 2,800 9,184 290,000 years ago Three Fingered Jack 2,390 7,840 40,000 to 80,000 years ago Tower Mountain (Oregon) - - - 22.0 million years ago Mount Washington 2,376 7,790 700 AD Wildcat Mountain Caldera - - - 36.0 million years ago
Texas
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Pilot Knob 169 576 79 to 83 million years ago (late Cretaceous) Inge Mountain 125 410 Eocene or possibly Miocene
Utah
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Bald Knoll Volcanic Field 2,135 7,005 300,000 years ago or later Black Rock Desert Volcanic Field 1,800 5,904 1290 AD ± 150 years Fumarole Butte 1,609 5,279 900,000 years ago Indian Peak-Caliente Caldera Complex - - 18 million years ago Marysvale Volcanic Field 3,694 12,137 19 million years ago Markagunt Plateau Volcanic Field 2,840 9,318 1050 AD Santa Clara Volcanic Field 1,465 4,806 32,000 years ago
Virginia
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Culpeper Basin - - 201 million years ago (late Triassic) Mole Hill 577 1,893 47 million years ago (early Eocene) Trimble Knob 952 3,123 35 million years ago (late Eocene) Mount Rogers Volcanic Center 1,750 5,730 760 million years ago (Tonian) Battle Mountain 354 1,162 704 million years ago (Cryogenian)
Washington
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Battle Ground Lake 229 750 105,000 years ago Black Buttes 2,857 9,373 500,000 to 300,000 years ago Mount Adams 3,743 12,281 500 BC ± 1000 years Mount Baker 3,285 10,778 1880 Glacier Peak 3,213 10,541 1700 ± 100 years Goat Rocks 2,494 8,184 500,000 years ago Indian Heaven 1,513 5,925 ~6250 BC Lone Butte 1457 4,780 Either 80,000 or 140,000 years ago ± 10,000 years Marble Mountain-Trout Creek Hill volcanic zone 1,378 4,521 ~7700 years ago Mount Rainier 4,392 14,411 1894 Mount St. Helens 2,550 8,364 2008 Mount Si 1,270 4,167 Cretaceous to Jurassic Pinnacle Peak 549 1,801 Silver Star Mountain 1,330 4,364 Pluton formed 20 million years ago Simcoe Mountains 1954 6,410 631,000 ± 27,000 years ago Trout Creek Hill 890 2,920 340,000 years ago Tumtum Mountain 611 2,004 70,000 years ago West Crater 1,329 4,360 ~6000 BC White Chuck Cinder Cone 1,830 6,002 Between 17,000 and 2,000 years ago
West Virginia
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Ugly Mountain 792 2,598 42.8 ±0.5 Ma
Wyoming
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates Yellowstone Plateau volcanic field 2,805 9,203 70,000 years ago (magmatic) / 1350 BC ± 200 years (hydrothermal)
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