Blue Creek Valley Explained

Blue Creek Valley
Photo Size:295px
Country:United States
State:Utah
Region:Great Basin Desert
District:Box Elder
District Type:County
City:Blue Creek
City1:Howell
City Type:Communities
River:Blue Creek Spring
Lake:Blue Creek Reservoir
Coordinates:41.8622°N -112.4569°W
Border:Pocatello Valley
Border1:West Hills
Border2:Blue Spring Hills
Border3:Promontory Mountains
Border4:Hansel Mountains
Length Mi:18
Width Mi:8
Orientation:N-S
Map:USA Utah
Map Size:250

Blue Creek Valley is an 180NaN0 long valley located in northeast Box Elder County, Utah. It is endorheic with the Blue Creek Reservoir its low point located south in the valley's center.

The valley is nestled between three mountainous regions. The West Hills and Blue Spring Hills border it east and southeast. The south abuts the north of the Promontory Mountains, and the west is formed by a small north–south range, the North Promontory Mountains

The north of the valley borders the south of Idaho's Pocatello Valley.

Valley description

Because Blue Creek Valley is narrow, only 5-8 mi wide, small feeder creeks feed the region from the four cardinal directions. Blue Creek Reservoir is located in the center-south of the valley, with Blue Creek Spring located 2 mi northeast, the main feed to the reservoir.

The outlet of Blue Creek Reservoir trends south past Howell, Utah, into agricultural land. A peak associated with the north of the Promontory Mountains ends the valley's south, at the mountain range foothills. The mountain, Engineer Mountain, 5400feet,[1] and parts of the north Promontory Mountains drain north into the south border of Blue Creek Valley; southwest drainage from the mountain region drains southwest into the Bear River Bay section of the northeast Great Salt Lake.

Valley low point

The lowest elevation in the valley is south of Blue Creek Reservoir, its outlet, and to the farmland around Howell, Utah. Blue Creek Reservoir is at 4593feet.

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Notes and References

  1. Utah, DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, p. 10-11.