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Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain) – Elevation 1,447 ft (441 m) Big Cobbler Mountain (South Cobbler Mountain) – Elevation 1,562 ft (476 m) 38°50′19″N 77°57′10″W / 38.8387°N 77.9528°W / 38.8387; -77.9528 ( Big Cobbler Mountain (South Cobbler Mountain
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The marine and fluvial metasedimentary rocks in the core of the Uinta Mountains are of Neoproterozoic age [3] (between about 700 million and 760 million [4] years old) and consist primarily of quartzite, slate, and shale. These rocks comprise the Uinta Mountain Group, and reach thicknesses of 13,000 to 24,000 feet (4.0 to 7.3 km). Most of the ...
Yard Peak is set within the High Uintas Wilderness on land managed by Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. It is situated along the crest of the Uinta Mountains which are a subset of the Rocky Mountains , and it ranks as the 40th-highest summit in Utah. [ 2 ]
Designated as a wilderness in 1984, the area is located within parts of Ashley National Forest and Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The highest peak in Utah, Kings Peak , lies within the wilderness area along with some of Utah's highest peaks, particularly those over 13,000 feet (4,000 meters).
The top three metropolitan areas with the most people in “very high” wildfire risk areas are all in California: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, and Los ...
Split Mountain is located 13 miles (21 km) east of Vernal, Utah, in Dinosaur National Monument and the eastern Uinta Mountains. Precipitation runoff from this double summit mountain drains into the Green River. Topographic relief is significant as the west summit rises 2,800 feet (853 meters) above the river in 1.3 miles (2.1 km).
The latest Los Angeles County wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, began as a brush fire Wednesday a little before 11 a.m. before spreading to over 8,000 acres by around 4 p.m. local time.