The Malad City plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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73° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1973. Next is 66° in 1989.
Malad City’s center stands about 4,550 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,420 ft to 5,870 ft, a difference of 1,450 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Oxford Peak, about 9,230 ft, 10 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lake Bonneville deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 33,000 years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 33,000 years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Ordovician, 445 to 542 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, sandstone. Age: Ordovician to Devonian, 359 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Mixed-clastic, volcanic. Age: Early Miocene to Pleistocene, 2 to 16 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Gravel. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Malad City reaches Great Salt Lake by way of the Malad and the Bear River: about 95 river miles. Great Salt Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
65 miles of the trip are on the Malad.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Malad City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Malad City has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. About 13 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Malad City normally reaches 48° and falls to 24°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low −10°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1973 at Malad City, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
