The Sublett Range is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

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(~94%) and

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(~6%) in the United States, spanning Cassia,

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, and

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counties, Idaho and reaching into

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, Utah. The

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reaches its greatest thickness beneath the mountains.Blatt, Harvey and Robert J. Tracy, ''Petrology'', Freeman, 1996, 2nd ed. pp. 345-349

Description

The highest point in the range is known as the Sublett Range High Point at , and the range is a part of the

Basin and Range Province The Basin and Range Province is a vast United States physiographic region, physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and Northern Mexico, northwestern Mexico. It is defined by unique basin and range topography, charac ...

. The northern part of the mountains are part of the Sublett Division of the Minidoka Ranger District of

Sawtooth National Forest Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Depart ...

. The range was named after the trapper

William Sublette William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with hi ...

, who lived in the area in the 1830s. The

Raft River The Raft River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 4, 2011 tributary of the Snake River located in northern Utah and southern Idaho in the United States. It is par ...

and Black Pine mountains are southwest of the range, while the Albion Mountains are to the west. The northern part of the mountains are in the

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watershed, which is a tributary of the

Columbia River The Columbia River (Upper Chinook language, Upper Chinook: ' or '; Sahaptin language, Sahaptin: ''Nch’i-Wàna'' or ''Nchi wana''; Sinixt dialect'' '') is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river headwater ...

, while the southern section drains to the

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. The town of

Snowville, Utah Snowville is a town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 167 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Climate According to the Köppen Clima ...

is south of the mountains,

Malta, Idaho Malta is a city in Cassia County, Idaho, United States. The population was 193 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Burley, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area. History The settlers in the Malta area in the early 1880s had no central locat ...

is to the west, and

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is to the north. Interstate 84 passes just to the south and west of the mountains. Most of the mountains are covered in

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and meadows, but there can be pockets of

Douglas fir The Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii'') is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae. It is the tallest tree in the Pinaceae family. It is native to western North America and is also known as Douglas-fir, Douglas spruce, Or ...

on northern slopes.

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U.S. Forest Service
Sawtooth National Forest Mountain ranges of Box Elder County, Utah Landforms of Cassia County, Idaho Mountain ranges of Idaho Sawtooth National Forest {{CassiaCountyID-geo-stub

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