The Fish Springs Range is a long narrow, and north-trending mountain range located in center-west
Juab County
Juab County ( ) is a county in western Utah, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,246. Its county seat and largest city is Nephi.
Juab County is part of the Provo–Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical ...
,
Utah
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. The northeast of the range borders the
Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge; the entire east of the range borders the Fish Springs Flat, where the east region of the flat borders the
Thomas Range.
The Fish Springs Range lies at the south of the
Great Salt Lake Desert
The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for wh ...
; southwards, as well as southwest and southeastwards, north-trending valleys and mountain ranges drain northwards to the Great Salt Lake Desert. The sequence of these landforms west-to-east, are
Snake Valley (Great Basin),
Confusion Range,
Tule Valley-(Fish Springs Range-north),
House Range,
Whirlwind Valley, and
Drum Mountains
The Drum Mountains or Detroit Mountains are a desert range in Juab and Millard counties of western Utah. They lie within the Basin and Range Province, which is a series of generally north-south trending mountain ranges and valleys (or basins) ex ...
.
The south of the range borders the north of Tule Valley.
Range description
The Fish Springs Range is north-south trending, linear, narrow (mostly 3 to 4-mi wide), the range is veryslightly "arc-shaped", and curved, to the west.
A small sub-range, Middle Range, lies 6.5-mi southwest, towards the
Confusion Range. Southeast lies the extreme north foothills of the
House Range. Fish Springs Flat borders the east of the range, and west of the range lies a satellite sub-peak (only other regional peak), The Honeycombs, .
The highpoint of the range in the center-south is George H. Hansen Peak, .
[DeLorme Atlas, p. 30–31.]
Access
The Fish Springs Range and wildlife refuge can be accessed from the west from
Trout Creek. From the east, access can be from the
Dugway Range region by unimproved roads, and southeast by the same from
Delta, and
Utah State Route 174, (through the
Sevier Desert
The Sevier Desert is a large arid section of central-west Utah, United States, and is located in the southeast of the Great Basin. It is bordered by deserts north, west, and south; its east border is along the mountain range and valley sequences ...
).
File:Fish Springs Utah.jpg, Fish Springs & northern hills of range
File:MiddleSpring.JPG, Middle Spring
References
External links
George H. Hansen Peak, mountainzone (coordinates)Fish Springs & Fish Springs Range (north section), (Topoquest)Fish Springs Range (center & south section), (Topoquest)
Great Salt Lake Desert
Mountain ranges of Juab County, Utah
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Utah