The White City 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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76° on Nov. 15, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1917. Next is 75° in 1941.
White City’s center stands about 4,580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,310 ft to 5,090 ft, a difference of 780 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Twin Peaks, about 11,430 ft, 11 miles east.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 3×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granodiorite. Age: Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene, 30 to 42 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Arenite. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 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 White City reaches Great Salt Lake by way of the Jordan: about 30 river miles. Great Salt Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of White City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
White City has a dry-summer hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 82 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 24 inches of water.
On November 14 White City normally reaches 50° and falls to 32°. The record high is 70°, in 1990; the record low 13°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 1.39 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 at Cottonwood Weir, 5 miles northeast, 410 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
