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Chicken Coop Spring

Chicken Coop Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Chicken Coop Spring is a spring in Utah, at a modelled elevation of 2,220 m. Trout Creek Peak stands 3,200 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Diamond Mountain, a peak 5.1 miles away. Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Byway passes 7.3 miles off. 134 named places lie within 25 miles, 46 of them named summits.

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Coordinates40.63528, -109.33487

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Around it

134 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 46
  • Diamond Mountain: 5.1 mi
  • Limestone Mountain: 8.0 mi
  • Little Brush Creek Knob: 9.6 mi
  • Limber Flag: 10.0 mi
  • Buckskin Hills: 10.2 mi
Springs: 28
  • Colton Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Spring Creek Spring: 12.3 mi
  • Hot Spring on Right Bank: 13.0 mi
  • Lind Spring: 16.8 mi
  • June Spring: 17.8 mi
Parks: 26
  • Pot Creek Recreation Site: 9.1 mi
  • Warren Draw Wildlife Management Area: 11.0 mi
  • Sears Canyon Wildlife Management Area: 11.9 mi
  • Steinaker State Park: 13.5 mi
  • Big Park: 15.0 mi
Attractions: 8
  • Dinosaur Trackway: 6.4 mi
  • Moonshine arch: 12.4 mi
  • Stump Formation: 13.5 mi
  • Split Mountain Anticline: 13.5 mi
  • Morrison Formation: 13.6 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Split Mountain Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
  • Josie Morris Cabin Picnic Area: 16.7 mi
  • Echo Park Overlook: 17.9 mi
  • Harper's Corner: 18.2 mi
  • Canyon Overlook Picnic Area: 20.9 mi
Historic sites: 5
  • Veteran Memorial: 15.9 mi
  • Rex: 16.6 mi
  • Doc Parson Place: 18.6 mi
  • Firefighters Memorial: 18.8 mi
  • Uintah "U": 19.7 mi
Museums: 4
Cliffs: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Waterfalls: 1
  • On-Off Falls: 15.2 mi
Artworks: 1
  • Dinah The Pink Dinosaur: 15.5 mi
Gardens: 1
Rest areas: 1
Nature reserves: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chicken Coop Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Trout Creek PeakWNW 298°3,200 m22.2 mi
Sims PeakWNW 285°3,141 m21.6 mi
Dyer MountainWNW 300°3,116 m14.4 mi
Taylor MountainWNW 290°3,103 m17.1 mi
Mount LenaNNW 338°2,972 m11.3 mi
Limber FlagNNW 328°2,895 m10.0 mi
Limestone MountainNNW 342°2,826 m8.0 mi
Frenches PeakW 280°2,811 m19.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2218:5419:30
June solstice05:4720:1120:52
September equinox07:0618:4019:16
December solstice07:3816:1016:54

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192741506070777464503623
Precip in0.60.60.60.70.90.50.60.61.21.10.50.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dinosaur Nm-quarry Area, 14 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jul — fullest in May, leanest in Feb.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs13.412.914.542.114098.140.227.219.718.716.514.4

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Big Brush Crk Abv Red Fleet Res, NR Vernal, UT, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Wildlife nearby
  • Golden Eagle1 obs
  • Pyrofomes juniperinus1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/10085909658

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