The West Bountiful 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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75° on Nov. 12, 1967, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1874. Next is 74° in 1973.
West Bountiful’s center stands about 4,270 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,200 ft to 5,400 ft, a difference of 1,200 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Thurston Peak, about 9,650 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
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 6 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.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Metamorphic. Age: Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.8 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Mudstone, conglomerate. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.3 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.
West Bountiful has a dry-summer hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 24° in January. A normal year brings about 52 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 16 inches of water.
On November 14 West Bountiful normally reaches 52° and falls to 33°. The record high is 71°, in 1967; the record low 3°, in 1955. The most rain on this date, 0.71 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1874 from the Salt Lake City Area threaded record (Salt Lake City International Airport, 9 miles south-southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
