The Heber 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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70° on Nov. 16, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1913. Next is 69° in 1967.
Heber’s center stands about 6,370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 5,550 ft to 7,520 ft, a difference of 1,970 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Twin Peaks, about 11,430 ft, 14 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Keetley Volcanics (andesite), from the Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 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.
Andesite. Age: Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene, 30 to 42 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Arenite. Age: Early Jurassic, 175 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone, limestone. Age: Early Triassic, 247 to 252 million years old. About 0.8 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 Heber reaches Great Salt Lake by way of Lake Creek, the Provo and the Jordan: about 100 river miles. Great Salt Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Lakes on the way: Utah Lake and Deer Creek Reservoir.
50 miles of the trip are on the Jordan.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Heber; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Heber has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Heber normally reaches 46° and falls to 23°. The record high is 69°, in 1967; the record low −4°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.80 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 at Snake Creek Powerhouse, 6 miles west, 360 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
