The Taylor 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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−9° on Nov. 13, 2020, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1990. Next is −8° in 2014.
Taylor’s center stands about 6,430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,160 ft to 7,360 ft, a difference of 1,200 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sublette Mountain, about 9,290 ft, 13 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fowkes Formation (sandstone, siltstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 16 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 7×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, siltstone. Age: Early Triassic to Late Triassic, 202 to 252 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. 10 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 Taylor reaches Great Salt Lake by way of the Bear River: about 310 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 Taylor; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Taylor has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 5° in January. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Taylor normally reaches 41° and falls to 15°. The record high is 63°, in 1999; the record low 2°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 0.34 in, fell in 2006.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1990 at Fossil Butte, 20 miles southeast, 360 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
