The West Wendover 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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69° on Nov. 12, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 68° in 1920.
West Wendover’s center stands about 4,520 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,220 ft to 6,130 ft, a difference of 1,910 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Leppy Peak, about 6,650 ft, 3 miles north.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 5×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, hypabyssal-quartz-latite, dacite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 273 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone, limestone. Age: Permian, 273 to 299 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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.
West Wendover has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 4 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 West Wendover normally reaches 47° and falls to 29°. The record high is 65°, in 2025; the record low 6°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.47 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Wendover Usaf Auxiliary Field, 3 miles east-southeast, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
