The Hideout 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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73° on Nov. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 69° in 1973.
Hideout’s center stands about 6,180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,140 ft to 7,770 ft, a difference of 1,630 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Twin Peaks, about 11,430 ft, 14 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Older alluvial deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 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 5 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene, 30 to 42 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Arenite. Age: Middle Pennsylvanian to Permian, 290 to 315 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 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. 4 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 Hideout reaches Great Salt Lake by way of the Provo and the Jordan: about 110 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 Hideout; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hideout has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 15° in January. A normal year brings about 97 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 17 inches of water.
On November 14 Hideout normally reaches 45° and falls to 23°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low 2°, in 1982. The most rain on this date, 0.98 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Kamas, 7 miles east, 300 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
