The Ogden 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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5° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1960. Next is 7° in 2014.
Ogden’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,020 ft to 1,320 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Custer Hill, about 1,360 ft, 6 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (sand, silt, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 44×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, silt, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, 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 Ogden reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Kansas, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,690 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ogden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ogden has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ogden normally reaches 56° and falls to 31°. The record high is 76°, in 2025; the record low 7°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.23 in, fell in 2002.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1960 at Manhattan Asos, 2 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
