The Cricket Mountains are a long mountain range located in central-south
Millard County
Millard County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,503. Its county seat is Fillmore, and the largest city is Delta.
History
The Utah Territory legislature created the county o ...
,
Utah
Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
, United States, on the east border of
Sevier Lake
Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by t ...
, in the
Great Basin Desert
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range. The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, a ...
.
The southwestern Cricket Mountains merge southwest into the smaller
San Francisco Mountains
The San Francisco Peaks (Navajo: , es, Sierra de San Francisco, Hopi: ''Nuva'tukya'ovi'', Western Apache: ''Dził Tso'', Keres: ''Tsii Bina'', Southern Paiute: ''Nuvaxatuh'', Havasupai-Hualapai: ''Hvehasahpatch''/''Huassapatch''/''Wik'hanbaja' ...
on the southern border of Sevier Lake and on the east of
Wah Wah Valley
Wah Wah Valley is an endorheic (internal drainage) valley within the Basin and Range of west-central Utah, United States.
Description
The valley is bound by the Wah Wah Mountains to the west and south and the San Francisco Mountains to the east. ...
.
Description
The Cricket Mountains rise to peaks ranging from the elevation to its highpoint of Headlight Mountain, ,
[Utah, DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, p. 40-41.] in the extreme southwest of the range. The Cricket Mountains are bordered by the
Sevier Desert
The Sevier Desert is a large arid section of central-west Utah, United States, and is located in the southeast of the Great Basin. It is bordered by deserts north, west, and south; its east border is along the mountain range and valley sequences ...
on the east, north, and west, where the
Sevier River
The Sevier River (pronounced "severe") is a -long river in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah in the United States. Originating west of Bryce Canyon National Park, the river flows north through a chain of high farming valleys and steep canyons ...
flows west then southwest into
Sevier Lake
Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by t ...
, 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
Basin and range topography is characterized by alternating parallel mountain ranges and valleys. It is a result of crustal extension due to mantle upwelling, gravitational collapse, crustal thickening, or relaxation of confining stresses. The e ...
block faulting.
Graymont Lime
Graymont Lime has a plant in the Cricket Mountains, about southwest of
Delta
Delta commonly refers to:
* Delta (letter) (Δ or δ), a letter of the Greek alphabet
* River delta, at a river mouth
* D ( NATO phonetic alphabet: "Delta")
* Delta Air Lines, US
* Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19
Delta may also ...
. It is one of the 10 largest
lime
Lime commonly refers to:
* Lime (fruit), a green citrus fruit
* Lime (material), inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide
* Lime (color), a color between yellow and green
Lime may also refer to:
Botany ...
plants in the United States. It was previously owned by Continental Lime, which was purchased by Graymont Lime.
See also
*
List of mountain ranges of Utah
The named mountain ranges of Utah.
Alphabetical
* Abajo Mountains
* Antelope Range (Iron County, Utah)
* Antelope Range (Juab County, Utah)
* Antelope Range (Sevier County, Utah)
* Aquarius Plateau, (''* Boulder Mountain'')
* Bear River Mo ...
References
External links
Headlight Mountain, mountainzone (coordinates)*
Cricket Mountain Plantat Graymont Lime
Mountain ranges of Millard County, Utah
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Utah
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