What does FPM stand for?

Feet Per Mile (elevation)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Regional Dip is to the east-southeast at 20 to 40 feet per mile.

United States : Treaty Energy Acquires Tennessee Oil and Gas Wells

Along the way, you''ll lose just shy of 60 feet per mile, dropping you down the plains.

Reventazon Two Different Classes of Water

He was hiking on the Eagle Peak Trail, a seven-mile round-trip day hike that climbs nearly 1,000 feet per mile.

Missing hiker found dead off Eagle Peak trail

For some perspective on how extreme this is, consider that the Class V Upper Gauley River in West Virginia drops 50 feet per mile and the Class V Upper Youghiogheny River in Pennsylvania has a drop of 116 feet per mile.

Adventures

During its peak flows in June, the Selway drops between 28 and 50 feet per mile in constant whitewater, like an enormous babbling brook run wild.

Idaho's whitewater highways: a rivertrip is the only way to get into ...

Though it's a steep hike, climbing nearly 1,000 feet per mile, people had been doing it without trouble this season.

Day hiker missing from Mt. Rainier trail; Minneapolis man; Searchers ...

There the river is its most turbulent, dropping over 70 feet per mile through narrow, granite walled canyons into the Exterminator and Staircase rapids, both advanced Class V rapids.

Record Rain Creates Ideal Whitewater Rafting in Maine

From its small, clear tributary, it eventually rolled into the murky green Mountain River, which carries a payload of fine silt to the Mackenzie River while dropping an average of 20 feet per mile along its 175-mile course.

SCENIC MOUNTAIN RANGE OFFERS RUGGED CHALLENGE