Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a 500-square-mile (1,300 km²) valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan, and West Valley City; its total population is 1,029,655 as of 2010. Brigham Young said this is the place, when he and his fellow settlers moved into Utah after being driven out of several states.

Geography

The Valley is surrounded in every direction except the northwest by steep mountains that at some points rise 7,100 feet (2,200 m) from the valley floor's base elevation. It lies nearly encircled by the Wasatch Mountains on the east, the Oquirrh Mountains on the west, Traverse Ridge to the south and the Great Salt Lake on the northwest, with the peaks of Antelope Island visible.

Every entrance into the valley is extremely narrow and often congested. They include the Point of the Mountain to the south via the Jordan Narrows, a gap in the Traverse Mountains, narrow entrances between the Great Salt Lake and Oquirrh Mountains to the northwest and the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains to the north, and several canyons to the east including Parley's Canyon and Emigration Canyon.

Lake Valley

Lake Valley may refer to:

Lake Valley (Nevada)

Lake Valley is a 60-mile (97 km) longvalley in northeast Lincoln County, Nevada. The North Lake Valley is an endorheic basin; South Lake Valley contains Patterson Wash, a northwest headwater tributary to the Meadow Valley Wash; the northeast headwater section of Meadow Valley Wash is a shorter drainage coming from the south of the Wilson Creek Range, the northeast border of South Lake Valley.

The water divide between the North & South sub-valleys is about halfway between both sections. Squaw Knoll is on the east crest of the water divide; the valley's water divide is part of the Great Basin Divide of southeast Nevada.

About 6 mi (10 km) of the North Lake Valley extends into south White Pine County.

Description

Squaw Knoll and Pony Springs, Nevada

Pony Springs, Nevada is adjacent the water divide which separates the North and South Lake Valleys. At the divide the valley narrows to only about 2.5 mi (4 km), as Squaw Knoll, 6,544 feet (1,995 m), is on the divide's east. The water divide, and center of both valley sub-regions, is about 7 mi (11 km) southeast of Pony Springs. The town is located on U.S. 93 which traverses the entire mountain foothills of the valley's western perimeter. The highway leaves South Lake Valley at Pioche in the mountains, then turns due south. Route 93 travels north beyond North Lake Valley to meet U.S. Route 50 in Nevada, about 25 mi (40 km) further.