USS "Kearsarge" was the only ship of the United States Navy named for a mountain whose summit has remained bare since a forest fire in what year?
USS Kearsarge (1861): USS "Kearsarge", a "Mohican"-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider  during the American Civil War. USS Kearsarge (1861):  "Kearsarge" was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire): Mount Kearsarge is a mountain located in Wilmot, New Hampshire, and Warner, New Hampshire. Mount Kearsarge (Merrimack County, New Hampshire):  The summit has remained bare since a 1796 forest fire.
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