The Wendover 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. 12, 1973, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 68° in 1920.
Wendover’s center stands about 4,300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,220 ft to 5,920 ft, a difference of 1,700 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Leppy Peak, about 6,650 ft, 4 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mud and salt flats (clay), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 6×. 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: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, hypabyssal-quartz-latite, dacite. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous to Permian, 273 to 324 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 394 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit 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.
Wendover has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. About 4 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wendover normally reaches 47° and falls to 29°. The record high is 65°, in 2025; the record low 6°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.47 in, fell in 1988.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Wendover Usaf Auxiliary Field, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
