question: Mount Mitchell is located in the subrange of what western state?
answer: North Carolina
context: Title: Western State Colorado University
  Passage: Western State Colorado University, also known as Western, is a four-year public liberal arts college located in the bucolic valley of Gunnison, Colorado.  Approximately 2,400 undergraduate and 200 graduate students attend Western, with one-fourth coming from out of state.  Of the 22 undergraduate majors, the most popular are business administration, biology, exercise and sport science, recreation and outdoor leadership, and psychology.  Western also offers undergraduate programs in petroleum geology and professional land and resource management, both funded by donations through the Western State Colorado University Foundation.  Further, it offers a low residency MFA program in creative writing, including genre fiction, poetry and screen and television writing.  Students participate in the low residency MFA program from as far as way as China.  The college has one of the oldest collegiate radio stations in the state, 91.1 KWSB, which has been on the air since 1968.
  Title: 1916 Western State Hilltoppers football team
  Passage: The 1916 Western State Hilltoppers football team represented Western State Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1916 college football season.  In their 10th season under head coach William H. Spaulding, the Hilltoppers compiled a 5–1 record and outscored their opponents, 389 to 38.  The 389 points scored by the 1916 team was the highest single season point total for a Western Michigan football team until the 2011 team scored 459 points.  Quarterback Scott Burke was the 1916 team captain.
  Title: NOAAS Mount Mitchell (S 222)
  Passage: NOAAS "Mount Mitchell" (S 222) was an American survey vessel in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 1995.  Prior to her NOAA career, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC&GS "Mount Mitchell" (MSS 22) from 1968 to 1970.  In 2003, she returned to service as the private research ship R/V "Mt. Mitchell".
  Title: Western State Colorado Mountaineers
  Passage: The Western State Colorado Mountaineers (also Western State Mountaineers) are the athletic teams that represent Western State Colorado University, located in Gunnison, Colorado, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.  The Mountaineers compete as members of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference for all 11 varsity sports.
  Title: Black Mountains (North Carolina)
  Passage: The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina, in the southeastern United States.  They are part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.  The Blacks are the highest mountains in the Eastern United States.  The range takes its name from the dark appearance of the red spruce and Fraser fir trees that form a spruce-fir forest on the upper slopes which contrasts with the brown (during winter) or lighter green (during the growing season) appearance of the deciduous trees at lower elevations.  The Eastern Continental Divide, which runs along the eastern Blue Ridge crest, intersects the southern tip of the Black Mountain range.
  Title: Mount Mitchell
  Passage: Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland eastern North America.  It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina, in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians, and about 19 mi northeast of Asheville.  It is protected by Mount Mitchell State Park and surrounded by the Pisgah National Forest.  Mount Mitchell's elevation is 6684 ft above sea level.
  Title: Mount Craig (North Carolina)
  Passage: Mount Craig, 6,647 ft , is the second highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and second only to 6,684 ft Mount Mitchell in eastern North America.  It is located in the Black Mountains in Yancey County, North Carolina.  The mountain lies about a mile (2 km) north of Mount Mitchell and is within Mount Mitchell State Park and the Pisgah National Forest.
citations: Mount Mitchell Black Mountains (North Carolina)