Name: Emmons Mesa

 

County: Sweetwater

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude: 1085746W

Latitude: 414851N

 

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Elevation: 7664/2336

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Part of the Leucite Hills.

Source: Kemp and Knight

 

We take great pleasure in naming this mesa after Mr. Samuel Franklin Emmons, of the U.S. Geological Survey, who first collected the rock of the Leucite Hills. 

Source: Kemp and Knight 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: South Superior

 

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