Blue Creek Valley is an 18-mile (29 km) long valley located in northeast Box Elder County , Utah . It is endorheic with the Blue Creek Reservoir its low point located south in the valley's center.
6-587: The valley is nestled between three mountainous regions. The West Hills and Blue Spring Hills border it east and southeast. The south abuts the north of the Promontory Mountains , and the west is formed by a small north–south range, the North Promontory Mountains The north of the valley borders the south of Idaho 's Pocatello Valley. Because Blue Creek Valley is narrow, only 5-8 mi wide, small feeder creeks feed
12-583: A location in Utah is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . West Hills (Box Elder County, Utah) The West Hills are a 20-mile long (32 km) mountain range located in northeast Box Elder County , Utah , United States, that extends slightly north into Oneida County , Idaho . The range is connected to the Samaria Mountains , a small range on the north in southern Idaho. The West Hills are also connected to another section on
18-592: The highpoint of the range in the extreme northwest, Limekiln Knoll, 6,660 feet (2,030 m), near the Idaho border and the Samaria Mountains. Interstate 15 parallels the mountain range on its east and southeast, following the south-flowing Malad River , a west tributary to the south-flowing Bear River . Interstate 84 traverses the section between the Blue Spring Hills on the southwest,
24-485: The north Promontory Mountains drain north into the south border of Blue Creek Valley; southwest drainage from the mountain region drains southwest into the Bear River Bay section of the northeast Great Salt Lake . The lowest elevation in the valley is south of Blue Creek Reservoir, its outlet, and to the farmland around Howell, Utah. Blue Creek Reservoir is at 4,593 feet (1,400 m). This article about
30-555: The region from the four cardinal directions. Blue Creek Reservoir is located in the center-south of the valley, with Blue Creek Spring located 2 mi northeast, the main feed to the reservoir. The outlet of Blue Creek Reservoir trends south past Howell, Utah , into agricultural land. A peak associated with the north of the Promontory Mountains ends the valley's south, at the mountain range foothills. The mountain, Engineer Mountain, 5,400 feet (1,646 m), and parts of
36-604: The southwest, the Blue Spring Hills. West of the Blue Spring and West Hills is a long north–south valley, the Blue Creek Valley . The West and Blue Spring Hills also lie west of the south flowing Bear River which feeds into Bear River Bay of the Great Salt Lake 's northeast. The West Hills are slightly northwest trending. The peak elevations are around 5,000 to 6,000 feet (1,500 to 1,800 m), with
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