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Only three U.S. states (Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming) have exclusively latitude and longitude lines as boundaries. [1] The northern border with Idaho is inherited from the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, which defined the boundary between the Louisiana Purchase and New Spain. The large size of the proposed State of Deseret was controversial.
The Cache National Forest portion is located in northern Utah and southern Idaho. It has a land area of 701,453 acres (1,096 sq mi, or 2,838.7 km 2 ). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Cache , Bear Lake , Franklin , Weber , Rich , Box Elder , Caribou , and Morgan counties.
The geology of Utah, in the western United States, includes rocks formed at the edge of the proto-North American continent during the Precambrian.A shallow marine sedimentary environment covered the region for much of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, followed by dryland conditions, volcanism, and the formation of the basin and range terrain in the Cenozoic.
The range has peaks ranging from 11,000 to 13,528 feet (3,353 to 4,123 m), with the highest point being Kings Peak, also the highest point in Utah. The Mirror Lake Highway crosses the western half of the Uintas on its way to Wyoming. Utah State Route 44 crosses the east end of the Uintas between Vernal and Manila.
The Northern Basin and Range ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. states of Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and California. It contains dissected lava plains, rolling hills, alluvial fans, valleys, and scattered mountain ranges in the northern part of the Great Basin.
Antelope Range (Iron County, Utah), Iron Black Mountains (Utah), Iron-Beaver Cedar Mountains (Iron County, Utah), Iron Harmony Mountains, Iron-Washington; Indian Peak Range, Beaver-Iron