The Cove 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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−20° on Nov. 16, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is −6° in 1978.
Cove’s center stands about 4,560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,430 ft to 6,250 ft, a difference of 1,820 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Naomi Peak, about 9,920 ft, 8 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lake Bonneville deposits (clay), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Mudstone, unconsolidated. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 16 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 521 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Dolostone, shale. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 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. 3 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 Cove reaches Great Salt Lake by way of High Creek, the Cub 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.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cove; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cove has a dry-summer hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 62 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 20 inches of water.
On November 14 Cove normally reaches 46° and falls to 27°. The record high is 68°, in 1990; the record low 3°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.36 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Richmond, 4 miles south, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
