Table Mountain is located near the northern end of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada in California.

The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks and is 0.6 miles (1 km) south of Thunder Mountain and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) northeast of Midway Mountain.

Clarence King of the Whitney Survey mentioned in his notes that "At one place the ridge [Great Western Divide] forms a level table."

The name Table appeared on Charles F. Hoffmann's map of 1873.

[8] It is the tallest of the 21 peaks named Table Mountain in California.