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Parowan Valley
Parowan Valley, originally known as the Little Salt Lake Valley, is a basin in Iron County, Utah, United States. Description Its lowest point is at in the Little Salt Lake. Fremont Wash, Red Creek, Parowan Creek and other tributaries all drain into the Little Salt Lake. In times that the lake overflows it is drained through the Parowan Gap that passes through the Red Hills into Jackrabbit Wash, in Cedar Valley. See also * List of valleys of Utah This is a list of valleys of Utah. Valleys are ordered alphabetically by county and then for the entire state. Beaver County * Beaver Valley (Utah) * Hamlin Valley * Milford Valley * Pine Valley (Beaver, Millard, Iron counties, Utah) (in Be ... References External links Petroglyph day; interpretations and mysteries of Parowan Gap St. George News, June 16, 2019 Valleys of Iron County, Utah Valleys of Utah {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron County, Utah
Iron County is a county in southwestern Utah, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 46,163. Its county seat is Parowan, and the largest city is Cedar City. The Cedar City, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Iron County. History Evidence of Fremont culture habitation ranging from 750 to 1250 AD exists in present Iron County. Petroglyphs of differing periods were carved into the walls of Parowan Gap NW of Parowan. Paiutes roamed the Parowan Valley in the centuries before Euro-American exploration; their descendants are now represented by the Southern Paiute Indian Reservation, which is headquartered in Cedar City. The Domínguez–Escalante expedition traveled through the Iron County area on October 12, 1776. Fur trapper Jedediah Smith is the first recorded Anglo-American to pass through the area (1826). Settlement of the area began in 1851, when LDS President Brigham Young directed members from the northern colonies to move i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 its west by Nevada. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. Of the fifty U.S. states, Utah is the 13th-largest by area; with a population over three million, it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city, Salt Lake City; and Washington County in the southwest, with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin. Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups such as the ancient Puebloans, Navajo and Ute. The Spanish were the first Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drainage Basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the '' drainage divide'', made up of a succession of elevated features, such as ridges and hills. A basin may consist of smaller basins that merge at river confluences, forming a hierarchical pattern. Other terms for a drainage basin are catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, water basin, and impluvium. In North America, they are commonly called a watershed, though in other English-speaking places, "watershed" is used only in its original sense, that of a drainage divide. In a closed drainage basin, or endorheic basin, the water converges to a single point inside the basin, known as a sink, which may be a permanent lake, a dry lake, or a point where surface water is lost underground. Drainage basins are similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Salt Lake
Little Salt Lake (also called Parowan Lake), is a dry lake in east‑central Iron County, Utah, United States. Description The lake has an elevation and is located on the southwestern edge of the Parowan Valley at the eastern foot of the Red Hills, immediately east of the Parowan Gap, west of Interstate 15 and Paragonah, and northwest of Parowan. History Little Salt Lake originally was a seasonal, shallow, brackish sink fed by springs, Fremont Wash and streams emerging from the Hurricane Cliffs in the Parowan Valley. Local Native American people lived in the vicinity of the lake, who called it "Paragoon," which meant "vile water." Long ago a creek drained the lake westward through the Parowan Gap in the Red Hills. Later Americans named the lake, Little Salt Lake in contrast to the larger Great Salt Lake to the north. Its original Piute name with some alteration was given to the valley and the towns of Paragonah and Parowan. Diversion of water from creeks and springs fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremont Wash
Fremont Wash sometimes called Fremont Canyon in its upper reach, is a stream and a valley in the north end of Parowan Valley, in Iron County, Utah. Its mouth lies at its confluence with Little Salt Lake at an elevation of 5,686 feet / 1,733 meters. Its head is found at , the mouth of Fremont Canyon, an elevation of 6,476 feet / 1,974 meters. History Fremont Wash was originally known as North Canyon Creek for the North Canyon from which it issued into the Parowan Valley at Muley Point. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Creek (Paragonah)
Red Creek is a stream in Iron County, Utah. Its mouth lies at an elevation of near Paragonah, Utah. Its source is located at an elevation of 9,560 feet at near Willow Spring in the Markagunt Plateau. History Red Creek was originally known by the early travelers on the Mormon Road as the 2nd Creek in the ''Little Salt Lake Valley'', now known as the Parowan Valley, as one traveled southward in the valley. It was a camping spot on the road described in the 1851 Mormon Waybill as having: "...good feed, and wood." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parowan Creek
Parowan Creek, is a stream in the Parowan Valley of Iron County, Utah. It flows north through Parowan, Utah to its mouth at an elevation of at the Little Salt Lake in Parowan Valley. Its source is located at an elevation of 9,980 feet at in Brian Head, Utah in the Markagunt Plateau. History Parowan Creek was originally known by the early travelers on the Mormon Road as the 3rd Creek in the ''Little Salt Lake Valley'', now known as the Parowan Valley, as one traveled southward in the valley. It was a camping spot on the road described in the 1851 Mormon Waybill as having: "...good feed, and wood."''Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parowan Gap
Parowan Valley, originally known as the Little Salt Lake Valley, is a basin in Iron County, Utah, United States. Description Its lowest point is at in the Little Salt Lake. Fremont Wash, Red Creek, Parowan Creek and other tributaries all drain into the Little Salt Lake. In times that the lake overflows it is drained through the Parowan Gap that passes through the Red Hills into Jackrabbit Wash, in Cedar Valley. See also * List of valleys of Utah This is a list of valleys of Utah. Valleys are ordered alphabetically by county and then for the entire state. Beaver County, Utah, Beaver County * Beaver Valley (Utah) * Hamlin Valley * Milford Valley * Pine Valley (Beaver, Millard, Iron coun ... References External links Petroglyph day; interpretations and mysteries of Parowan Gap St. George News, June 16, 2019 Valleys of Iron County, Utah Valleys of Utah {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Hills (Iron County, Utah)
Red Hills may refer to: Places United States * Red Hills (San Luis Obispo County), a mountain range in California * Red Hills (Tuolumne County), a mountain range in California * Red Hills (Kansas), a physiographic region * Red Hills (Charlottesville, Virginia), a historic home and farm complex * Red Hills Lake County AVA, California * Red Hills Region, in Georgia and Florida * Red Hills State Park, in Illinois * Red Hills Wind Farm, in Oklahoma * Red Hills of Dundee, in Oregon Elsewhere * Red Hills, Tasmania, Australia * Red Hills, Chennai, or Sengundram, India ** Red Hills Lake, or Puzhal aeri, Chennai * Red Hills, Hyderabad, India * Maibam Lokpa Ching or Red Hills, World War II historical site in Manipur, India * Red Hills Fissure, Jamaica * Red Hills or Red Cuillin, a range of hills on Skye, Scotland See also * Red Hill (other) * Redhill (other) * Redhills (other) * Red Hills salamander The Red Hills salamander (''Phaeognathus hubrichti'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackrabbit Wash (Iron County, Utah)
Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores, and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The genus includes the largest lagomorphs. Most are fast runners with long, powerful hind legs, and large ears to dissipate body heat. Hare species are native to Africa, Eurasia and North America. A hare less than one year old is called a "leveret". A group of hares is called a "husk", a "down" or a "drove". Members of the ''Lepus'' genus are considered true hares, distinguishing them from rabbits which make up the rest of the Leporidae family. However, there are five leporid species with "hare" in their common names which are not considered true hares: the hispid hare (''Caprolagus hispidus''), and four species known as red rock hares (comprising ''Pronolagus''). Conversely, several ''Lepus'' species are called "jackrabbits", but classed as har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Valley (Iron County, Utah)
The Cedar Valley of Iron County, Utah, United States is a long valley located in the southeast of the county, against the Hurricane Cliffs which border the Cedar Mountains and the Markagunt Plateau. Cedar Valley borders the southeast of the Escalante Desert, at its north and northwest. Cedar City, Utah lies in the valley's center and east, at the foothills of the Hurricane Cliffs. Description Cedar Valley is northeast trending. It narrows in the southwest, between mountain ranges; in this southwest section, the Harmony Mountains are west, and the Hurricane Cliffs are east, bordering the Kolob Terrace. The valley is mostly about wide, between mountains, or ranges, or the Hurricane Cliffs, to the east, which is a 75-mi long landform, from Hurricane, Utah at its southwest end. The valley's north and northwest terminus merges into the Mud Spring Wash–Rush Lake region at the southwest of the Black Mountains (Utah), (and the southeast perimeter of the Escalante Desert); ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Valleys Of Utah
This is a list of valleys of Utah. Valleys are ordered alphabetically by county and then for the entire state. Beaver County * Beaver Valley (Utah) * Hamlin Valley * Milford Valley * Pine Valley (Beaver, Millard, Iron counties, Utah) (in Beaver, north Iron, and south Millard counties) * Wah Wah Valley Box Elder County * Bear River Valley * Blue Creek Valley * Curlew Valley * Junction Valley * Upper Raft River Valley Cache County * Ant Valley * Cache Valley Carbon County * Castle Valley (Carbon, Emery, and Sevier counties, Utah) * Emma Park * Whitmore Park Daggett County * Lucerne Valley Davis County * Salt Lake Valley Duchesne County * Pleasant Valley * Roosevelt Valley Emery County * Antelope Valley (Wayne-Emery counties, Utah) * Castle Valley (Carbon, Emery, and Sevier counties, Utah) * Gunnison Valley (Emery and Grand counties, Utah) * Joe's Valley * San Rafael Valley Garfield County * Bear Valley Junction, Utah * Circle Valley' * Johns Valley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
