Jenkins Peak is a mountain

summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used only for a m ...

located in Tooele County,

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, United States.

Description

Jenkins Peak is the third-highest summit in the Silver Island Mountains which are a subset of the Great Basin Ranges. It is set on land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management. The community of

Wendover, Utah Wendover is a city on the western edge of Tooele County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,115 at the 2020 census. Description Wendover is on the western border of Utah and is contiguous with West Wendover, Nevada. Interstate 80 runs j ...

, is 17 miles to the southwest and the

Bonneville Speedway Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed rec ...

is eight miles to the south.

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is significant as the summit rises over above the

Bonneville Salt Flats The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of many salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake. It is public land managed by the ...

in two miles. This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1960 by the

U.S. Board on Geographic Names The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior. The purpose of the board is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the federal govern ...

to honor David Abbott "Ab" Jenkins (1883–1956), a professional race car driver who was interested in land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats.Madeleine Osberger, Steve Cohen (1996), ''Adventure Guide to Utah'', Hunter Pub., , p. 47United States Board on Geographic Names (1960), ''Decisions on Names in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Decision List 6001'', Department of the Interior, p. 51 He was instrumental in establishing Bonneville as a location for such events, and was elected Mayor of

Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...

in 1940.

Climate

Jenkins Peak is set in 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 w ...

which has hot summers and cold winters. The desert is an example of a

cold desert climate The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk''), is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in deser ...

as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool. Winter highs are generally above freezing, and winter nights are bitterly cold, with temperatures often dropping well below freezing.

Gallery

File:Ab Jenkins.jpg, Ab Jenkins File:Bonneville Salt Flats, September 2017 (229475303).jpg, Jenkins Peak (left) below cloud File:Bonneville Salt Flats, Silver Island Mountains.jpg, Jenkins Peak on the left, Graham Peak at center, and Cobb Peak to the right.

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*Jenkins Peak
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* Ab Jenkins (photo)
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Mountains of Utah Mountains of Tooele County, Utah North American 2000 m summits Great Salt Lake Desert Mountains of the Great Basin

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