Question: Mount Mitchell is located in the subrange of what western state?
Context: 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. 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. 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. 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. John Sisterson is an American collegiate soccer head coach, currently with Santa Barbara City College as head coach of both the men and women's teams.  He has been with the Vaqueros since 2005 and is the most successful soccer coach in the history of Santa Barbara City College, with over 270 wins for both men's and women's teams.  Sisterson has won 5 Western State Championships, as well as receiving coach of the year awards on 5 occasions.  In 2011 both the men's and women's teams were Western State Conference Champions, the only time this has been achieved by one college in the history of the Western State Conference, Sisterson being head coach of both teams.  Sisterson was also the head coach for the United States Deaflympics Women's soccer team from 2003 - 2009.  In 2005 the team won a gold medal at the Deaflympics in the Olympic Stadium, Melbourne, Australia, beating Russia in the final 3-0, and this was repeated when the team again won gold in the 2009 Deaflympics in Chinese Taipei. The Western State Hospital Historic District is a 37 acre historic district in Bolivar, Tennessee which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.  It then included seven contributing buildings and four non-contributing ones.  It has also been known as the Western State Hospital for the Insane at Bolivar, as the Western State Psychiatric Hospital, and as the Western Mental Health Institute. 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". 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. Western State College of Law at Argosy University is a private, for-profit American law school in Irvine, California.  It was established in 1966 and is the oldest existing law school in Orange County.  Western State is accredited by the American Bar Association.  Prior to 2012, the school was known by its former name Western State University College of Law.  The school is owned by Education Management Corporation. 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.
Answer: North Carolina