Crampton's Gap Explained

Crampton's Gap
Map:Maryland
Map Size:300
Elevation:928feet
Elevation Ref:[1]
Location:Frederick County and Washington County, Maryland, United States
Range:South Mountain
Blue Ridge Mountains
Coordinates:39.41°N -77.64°W
Coordinates Ref:[2]
Traversed:Gapland Road

Crampton's Gap, also known as Crampton Gap, is a wind gap on South Mountain in Maryland.

The 928feet gap connects Burkittsville in the Middletown Valley to the east with Gapland and Rohrersville in the Pleasant Valley to the west.

Documentation of the earliest land tracts in the Crampton's Gap area and records related to the earliest road may be found in The Land Tracts of the Battlefield of South Mountain by Curtis L. Older.[3]

The gap is the location of Gathland State Park and was the site of the Battle of Crampton's Gap on September 14, 1862, during the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Notes and References

  1. http://ned.usgs.gov/ National Elevation Dataset
  2. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=139:3:377610517500378::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:583960%2CCrampton%20Gap GNIS
  3. Older, Curtis L., The Land Tracts of the Battlefield of South Mountain, Heritage Books, Inc., ISBN 1-58549-066-0.