The Table Rock 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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−19° on Nov. 11, 2000, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1962. Next is −18° in 2014.
Table Rock’s center stands about 6,840 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,750 ft to 7,240 ft, a difference of 490 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Table Rock, about 7,390 ft, 7 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wasatch Formation - Main Body (claystone, siltstone), from the Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old.
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 23×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, siltstone. Age: Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand, unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Oil-shale, marlstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Oil-shale, shale, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 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 Table Rock reaches the Gulf of California by way of Bitter Creek, the Green River and the Colorado: about 1,570 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Mead, Lake Powell, Flaming Gorge Reservoir and Lake Mohave.
410 miles of the trip are on the Green River.
Seldom reaches the sea. Dams and canals now take nearly all of the Colorado before its old delta in Mexico.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Table Rock; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Table Rock has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 7 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Table Rock normally reaches 45° and falls to 21°. The record high is 66°, in 1999; the record low −16°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 0.35 in, fell in 1987.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1962 at Bitter Creek 4 NE, 7 miles west-southwest, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
