Mount Hancock (New Hampshire)

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Mount Hancock (north summit)
Elevation	1,335 m (4,420 ft)
Location	New Hampshire, USA
Prominence	340 m (1,120 ft)
Coordinates	44°05′01″N, 071°29′37″W
Topo map	USGS Mount Carrigain

Mount Hancock (south summit)
Elevation	1,304 m (4,278 ft)
Location	New Hampshire
Prominence	84 m (275 ft)

Mount Hancock is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire, named after John Hancock (1737–1793), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

The mountain is on the south side of the Pemigewasset Wilderness, the source of the Pemigewasset River in the heart of the White Mountains, between Franconia Notch and Crawford Notch. Hancock is flanked to the northeast by Mount Carrigain, to the south by Mount Huntington, and to the west by Mount Hitchcock.

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4000-foot mountains of New England

Maine:
Abraham • Bigelow (Avery) • Bigelow (West) • Crocker • Katahdin (Baxter) • Katahdin (Hamlin) • North Brother • Old Speck • Redington • Saddleback • Saddleback Horn • South Crocker • Spaulding • Sugarloaf

New Hampshire:
Northern ranges: Cabot • Waumbek
Carter-Moriah Range: Carter Dome • Middle Carter • Moriah • South Carter • Wildcat (A) • Wildcat (D)
Presidential Range: Adams • Eisenhower • Jackson • Jefferson • Isolation • Madison • Monroe • Pierce • Washington
Crawford Notch area: Field • Tom • Willey
Twin Range: Bond • Bond (West) • Bondcliff • Galehead • Hale • North Twin • South Twin • Zealand
Pemigewasset Wilderness: Carrigain • Hancock (North) • Hancock (South) • Owl's Head
Sandwich Range: Osceola • Osceola (East) • Tripyramid (Middle) • Tripyramid (North) • Passaconaway • Tecumseh • Whiteface
Franconia Range: Flume • Garfield • Lafayette • Liberty • Lincoln
Western White Mountains: Cannon • Kinsman (North) • Kinsman (South) • Moosilauke

Vermont:
Abraham • Camel's Hump • Ellen • Killington • Mansfield