| Weber River Ho-o-pah | |
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 A map of the Weber River | |
  Location of mouth in Utah | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| Counties | Weber,Davis,Morgan,Summit |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Uinta Mountains |
| • location | Utah |
| • coordinates | 40°42′57″N110°53′54″W / 40.71578°N 110.8982269°W /40.71578; -110.8982269 |
| Mouth | |
• location | Great Salt Lake |
• coordinates | 41°13′25″N112°07′37″W / 41.22361°N 112.12694°W /41.22361; -112.12694 |
• elevation | 4,209 ft (1,283 m) |
| Length | 125 mi (201 km) |
| Basin size | 1,627 sq mi (4,210 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Ogden, Utah |
| • average | 341 cu ft/s (9.7 m3/s) |
TheWeber River (/ˈwiːbər/WEE-bər) (Shoshone: Ho-o-pah)[1] is ac. 125-mile (201 km) long river of northernUtah, United States. It begins in the northwest of theUinta Mountains and empties into theGreat Salt Lake. The Weber River was named for American fur trapperJohn Henry Weber.[2]
The Weber River rises in the northwest of the Uinta Mountains, at the foot of peaks includingBald Mountain,Notch Mountain,Mount Marsell, andMount Watson. It passes byOakley, and fills the reservoir ofRockport Lake, then turns north, receiving the flow of major tributariesSilver Creek atWanship and Chalk Creek atCoalville. Coalville is also at the upper end of Echo Reservoir; Below the reservoir, the river passesHenefer, turns more westerly, and then passesMorgan, where it receivesEast Canyon Creek. Issuing out of the mountains atUintah at the mouth ofWeber Canyon, it turns north again where it is joined by theOgden River west ofOgden. The combined stream meanders across mostly-flat land, entering mud flats near where it empties into the Great Salt Lake, contributing about 25 percent of the total water entering the lake.[2]
Among the fish to be found in the river arebrook,brown,Bonneville cutthroat and stockedrainbow trout, andmountain whitefish.[3]
The Weber has long been used for irrigation and is part of theUnited States Bureau of Reclamation's Weber Basin Project.[4] Among the dams on the Weber are Wanship Dam onRockport Reservoir (completed 1957) andEcho Dam (completed 1931). The watershed totals about 2,500 sq mi (6,500 km2).
The Weber River is also home to a rare plant speciesStephanomeria occultata, also known as Disguised or Hidden Wirelettuce, which is endemic to rocky slopes and margins along the corridor (B. Wellard & J.W. Baker 2018).
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