Mount Lovenia is a mountain

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located on the common border that

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shares with Summit County in the U.S. state of

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Description

Mount Lovenia is set within the High Uintas Wilderness on land managed by Ashley National Forest. It is situated along the crest of the

Uinta Mountains The Uinta Mountains ( ) are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the con ...

which are a subset of the

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, and it ranks as the 10th-highest summit in Utah, and 51st-highest in the United States if a 400-foot

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cutoff is considered as criteria. Topographic relief is significant as the west face rises in less than one-half mile and the north face rises in one-half mile. Neighbors include Wasatch Peak two miles to the north-northwest, and Dead Horse Peak is five miles to the west-southwest. Precipitation

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from this mountain drains north to the

Blacks Fork Blacks Fork (also referred to as Blacks Fork of the Green River) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. , accessed March 18, 2011 tributary of the Green River in Utah and Wyoming in the United S ...

and south into headwaters of the

Lake Fork River The Lake Fork River is a river in Duchesne County, Utah in the United States. It flows for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed 2016-05-13 from Mount Lovenia in the Uinta M ...

Etymology

The landform's toponym has been officially adopted by the

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. Nature-lover and artist George Beard (1854–1944) of Coalville, Utah, named this mountain for his wife, Sarah Lovenia Bullock Beard (1859–1932), who was the daughter of Mormon pioneer Thomas Bullock.John W. Van Cott (1990), ''Utah Place Names'', University of Utah Press, , p. 262

Climate

Based on the

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, Mount Lovenia is located in a

subarctic climate The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, ge ...

zone with cold snowy winters and mild summers.

Tundra climate The tundra climate is a polar climate sub-type located in high latitudes and high mountains. undra climate https://www.britannica.com/science/tundra-climateThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019 It is classified as ET according to Köppen ...

characterizes the summit and highest slopes. There is no weather station at the summit, but this climate table contains interpolated data for an area around the summit.

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lovenia, Mount Mountains of Utah Features of the Uinta Mountains Mountains of Duchesne County, Utah Mountains of Summit County, Utah North American 4000 m summits Ashley National Forest

Description

Etymology

Climate

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