The Timber Lakes 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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−6° on Nov. 17, 2000, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1992. Next is 3° in 1997.
Timber Lakes’s center stands about 7,660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,550 ft to 9,390 ft, a difference of 2,840 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Red Creek Mountain, about 10,580 ft, 14 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Glacial deposits (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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 14 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, 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.
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 Timber Lakes 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 Timber Lakes; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Timber Lakes has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1992 at Park City, 18 miles northwest, 760 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
