The Cricket Mountains are a 35-mile (56 km) long mountain range located in central-south Millard County , Utah , United States, on the east border of Sevier Lake , in the Great Basin Desert .
6-403: The southwestern Cricket Mountains merge southwest into the smaller San Francisco Mountains on the southern border of Sevier Lake and on the east of Wah Wah Valley . The Cricket Mountains rise to peaks ranging from the 6,000-foot (1,800 m) elevation to its highpoint of Headlight Mountain, 6,749 feet (2,057 m), in the extreme southwest of the range. The Cricket Mountains are bordered by
12-608: A high peaks section in the southwest; the northeast lower elevation foothills merge into the Cricket Mountains. A smaller, almost circular mountain sub-range is attached on the southeast, the Beaver Lake Mountains , which is also adjacent to the town of Milford ; the Beaver River flows north through Milford Valley and enters the desert region east of the mountain ranges. (When flowing above ground,
18-654: Is connected in the northeast to the Cricket Mountains with the same Basin and Range , southwest by northeast lineage. Both ranges form the eastern border of the Wah Wah Valley Hardpan and the usually dry Sevier Lake which both have the same northeasterly trendline. The region is in the southwest of the Sevier Desert , and the southwest Great Basin Desert . The range is linear, with
24-608: Is one of the 10 largest lime plants in the United States. It was previously owned by Continental Lime, which was purchased by Graymont Lime. This article about a location in Utah is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . San Francisco Mountains (Utah) The San Francisco Mountains are a 20-mile-long (32 km) mountain range located in north‑central Beaver County, Utah , United States that extend into central-south Millard County . The range
30-602: The Sevier Desert on the east, north, and west, where the Sevier River flows west then southwest into Sevier Lake , on the range's west border. The southwest of the range merges into the northeast of the San Francisco Mountains, a slightly smaller range. Both ranges trend southwesterly x northeast, presumably part of Basin and Range block faulting. Graymont Lime has a plant in the Cricket Mountains, about 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Delta . It
36-475: The river intersects with the Sevier River , to the north, and before entering Sevier Lake.) A ridgeline of the range occurs in the south, and is slightly west of center; and south of the range's center and on the ridgeline is the range highpoint, Frisco Peak , 9,660 feet (2,940 m). The mountains derive their name indirectly from the Domínguez–Escalante expedition of 1776. Saint Francis of Assisi
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