Mount Houghton is a 10,490-foot-elevation mountain summit located in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

Topographic relief is significant as the west aspect rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) above Gray Creek in one mile.

This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1988 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to remember Dr. John Greenleaf Houghton (1940–1979), professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno.

[5] He was one of 257 people who perished November 29, 1979, when Air New Zealand Flight 901 flew into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew on board.

As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.