It reaches an elevation of 8,378 feet / 2,554 meters, and is the fourth highest and most isolated peak in Texas.

[2] The peak was named for Major William Livermore who used it as a point of observations and placed a base monument atop it.

[3] In October and November 1884, Major Livermore, of the Engineer Corps, was in charge of a military expedition in making a map of western Texas.

[5] An extensive cache of arrow points and fragments was excavated by Susan Janes, who moved to Fort Davis with her husband in 1893.

In 1895 the Janeses' son Charles, and Tom Merrill found a cairn on its highest point.