 The mountain's elevation is probably recorded by Arnold Guyot 
during his 1859 survey of the Smokies crest, but under a different name (possibly Guyot's "Big Stone Mountain," which Guyot listed with an elevation of and lying somewhere between Mt.Buckley and Thunderhead).Silers Bald is named after Jesse Siler, a prominent North Carolinian who grazed sheep
and cattle atop the mountain in the 19th century.