The Bear River 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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69° on Nov. 15, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1974. Next is 69° in 2025.
Bear River City’s center stands about 4,260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,220 ft to 4,290 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Box Elder Peak, about 9,340 ft, 6 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium and colluvium (unconsolidated), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 11 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.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, carbonate. Age: Middle Pennsylvanian to Permian, 273 to 315 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Peat. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone, unconsolidated. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 16 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 5 smaller units 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.
A raindrop that lands in Bear River City reaches Great Salt Lake by way of the Bear River: about 25 river miles. Great Salt Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bear River City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bear River City has a dry-summer hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. A normal year brings about 38 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 16 inches of water.
On November 14 Bear River City normally reaches 50° and falls to 27°. The record high is 69°, in 2025; the record low 8°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 0.59 in, fell in 2020.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1974 at Brigham City Waste Plant, 7 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
