Mount Nebo (Minnesota)
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Mount Nebo is a morainic drift
Morainic drift
Morainic drift is the movement of rock debris left by glaciers....

 hill in sections 4 and 9 of Stowe Prairie Township in Todd County, Minnesota
Todd County, Minnesota
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. This hill was named "for the peak east of the north end of the Dead Sea
Dead Sea
The Dead Sea , also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. Its surface and shores are below sea level, the lowest elevation on the Earth's surface. The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world...

, from whence Moses
Moses
Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed...

 viewed the Promised Land
Promised land
The Promised Land is a term used to describe the land promised or given by God, according to the Hebrew Bible, to the Israelites, the descendants of Jacob. The promise is firstly made to Abraham and then renewed to his son Isaac, and to Isaac's son Jacob , Abraham's grandson...

." Mount Nebo is located 2 miles north of Hewitt, Minnesota
Hewitt, Minnesota
Hewitt is a city in Todd County, Minnesota, United States, along the Wing River. The population was 266 at the 2010 census. It was named in honor of Henry Hewitt, one of the first settlers to the area-Geography:...

 or 8 miles south of Wadena, Minnesota
Wadena, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 4,294 people, 1,871 households, and 1,062 families residing in the city. The population density was 818.4 people per square mile . There were 1,964 housing units at an average density of 374.3 per square mile...

. Mount Nebo has an elevation of 461 Meters or 1,512 Feet. Mount Nebo was site to a ski resort in the 1970s and 1980s until it was shut down. Currently Mount Nebo is site of a AT&T
AT&T
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tower. The west side of Mount Nebo holds a Wind Turbine which is owned by a regional electric CO-OP.
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