The Wolf Creek 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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−17° on Nov. 16, 1955, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1935. Next is 1° in 1978.
Wolf Creek’s center stands about 5,340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,920 ft to 8,160 ft, a difference of 3,240 ft: mountain country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Ben Lomond, about 9,660 ft, 7 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium and colluvium (unconsolidated), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Unconsolidated. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Mixed-clastic. Age: Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,600 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Conglomerate, mixed-clastic. Age: Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene, 48 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Carbonate, shale. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metamorphic. Age: Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.8 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Arenite. Age: Early Cambrian to Middle Cambrian, 497 to 542 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. 3 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 Wolf Creek reaches Great Salt Lake by way of Wolf Creek, the Ogden and the Weber: about 40 river miles. Great Salt Lake has no outlet to the sea: the water leaves only by evaporating or soaking into the ground.
Lake on the way: Pineview Reservoir.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wolf Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wolf Creek has a dry-summer warm-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 108 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 31 inches of water.
On November 14 Wolf Creek normally reaches 46° and falls to 23°. The record high is 66°, in 1967; the record low 8°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 2.17 in, fell in 1955.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Pineview Dam, 5 miles south, 400 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
