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Red Mountains (Utah)
The Red Mountains of Washington County, Utah is a mostly circular long mountain range.''Utah Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 9th ed., 2014, p. 56 The small massif of the mountains is surrounded by two large ranges, northwest and northeast, the Bull Valley and Pine Valley Mountains. Bordering southwest is the smaller Beaver Dam Mountains. Between the Beaver Dam and Bull Valley Mountains, are river courses, streams, or washes, and encircling the west and northwest foothills is the Santa Clara River. It has multiple source streams, but the river arises off the southeast, escarpment-type flank of the Bull Valley Mountains, that lies northwest and north of the Red Mountains. The southeast portion of the Red Mountains contains Snow Canyon State Park, which extends south and southeast beyond the mountains. The park is also about 7-mi in length. Description The small Red Mountains are nearly circular except on its southeast where Snow Canyon and West Canyon merge into Snow Canyon. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington County, Utah
Washington County is a county in the southwestern corner of Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 180,279, making it the fifth-most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is St. George. The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1856. It was named after the first President of the United States, George Washington. A portion of the Paiute Indian Reservation is in western Washington County. Washington County comprises the St. George, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The earliest settlement was Fort Harmony in 1852. Santa Clara was established in 1854 as a mission to the natives who lived on the Santa Clara River. Hamblin and Pinto were settled along the Los Angeles - Salt Lake Road in 1856, as was Gunlock in 1857. Next came the settlements established as colonies to grow cotton before the beginning of the American Civil War. They were located along the Virgin River, in the warmer climate below the Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaver Dam Mountains
The Beaver Dam Mountains are a long mountain range located mostly in extreme southwest Washington County, Utah, Washington County, Utah, west of St. George, Utah, St. George, with the south of the range extending into the Arizona Strip. The range contains the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness which straddles the state's borders. The south of the range can be impressively seen from Interstate 15 in Arizona, Interstate 15, as it traverses the corridor into Utah through the Virgin River Gorge, as the Virgin River exits the west of the Colorado Plateau. Description The range contains two sections. The northern massif is anchored by the highpoint (photo), of the West Mountain Peak (Washington County), .''Utah Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 9th ed., 2014, pp. 56–57 The eastern flank of the north massif contains Shivwits, Utah in the center of a section of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah#Shivwits Band of Utah, Shivwits Band of Utah. Utah highway 91 tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah State Route 18
State Route 18 (SR-18) is a state highway in southern Utah, running for in Washington County, Utah, Washington and Iron County, Utah, Iron Counties from Saint George, Utah, St. George to Beryl Junction, Utah, Beryl Junction. It forms part of the Legacy Loop Highway from St. George to Parowan, Utah, Parowan. The highway closely follows the route of the Old Spanish Trail (trade route), Old Spanish Trail through Dixie National Forest. Route description St. George to Veyo SR-18 begins at Convention Center/Sunland Drive just south of the Bluff Street interchange with Interstate 15 in Utah, I-15 in St. George as an urban arterial and heads north through the west side of downtown St. George. After passing Sunset Boulevard (SR-8 (UT), SR-8), the route has an inverted single-point urban interchange with Snow Canyon Parkway/Red Hills Parkway. The route has a dumbbell interchange at Ledges Parkway as it continues north, passing through Snow Canyon State Park. SR-18 continues northwest thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations. The terms ''scarp'' and ''scarp face'' are often used interchangeably with ''escarpment''. Some sources differentiate the two terms, with ''escarpment'' referring to the margin between two landforms, and ''scarp'' referring to a cliff or a steep slope. In this usage an escarpment is a ridge which has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side. More loosely, the term ''scarp'' also describes a zone between a coastal lowland and a continental plateau which shows a marked, abrupt change in elevation caused by coastal erosion at the base of the plateau. Formation and description Scarps are generally formed by one of two processes: either by differential erosion of sedimentary rocks, or by movement of the Earth's crust at a geologic fault. The first process is the more common type: the escarpment is a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Clara River (Utah)
The Santa Clara River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 river whose three forks join above Pine Valley in the Pine Valley Mountains in Washington County, Utah, United States. It flows west, then south, then briefly southeast before joining the Virgin River just south of downtown St. George. It is southern Utah's largest tributary to the Virgin River. History The river was named Santa Clara by the early travelers of the Old Spanish Trail that followed the river. It was also known as the Tonaquint River, for the Tonaquint Band of Indians who lived near the river's mouth. Archaeological evidence shows that Ancestral Puebloans (also known as the Virgin Anasazi) lived in the area from 700 B.C. to A.D. 1200 and that they had developed irrigation for their farmed crops. Their population increased until about A.D. 1200 when all Anasazi populations collapsed. They were replaced by the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massif
In geology, a massif ( or ) is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. The term also refers to a group of mountains formed by such a structure. In mountaineering and climbing literature, a massif is frequently used to denote the main mass of an individual mountain. The massif is a smaller structural unit of the crust than a tectonic plate, and is considered the fourth-largest driving force in geomorphology. The word is taken from French (in which the word also means "massive"), where it is used to refer a large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range. One of the most notable European examples of a massif is the Massif Central of the Auvergne region of France. The Face on Mars is an example of an extraterrestrial massif. Massifs may also form underwater, as with the Atlanti ... [...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] |
Bull Valley Mountains
The Bull Valley Mountains are a 30-mi (48 km) long,''Utah Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2014, p. 56 mountain range in southwest Utah, located in northwest Washington County. The range is adjacent the Utah border and attached to the Clover Mountains of southeast Nevada. The Great Basin Divide transects the summits of both ranges, with the Escalante Desert north and northeast of the Bull Valley Mountains, and south of the mountains the Colorado River watershed, and specifically the Santa Clara River which drains southeasterly from an escarpment along the mountain range's southeast flank. Description and region The Bull Valley Mountains are on the water divide between the Escalante Valley north, the location of Enterprise in the southern Escalante Desert of the Great Basin, and the watershed of the Colorado to the south. Saint George, Utah is 25 mi SSE of the range. State Route 18 Utah Route 18 traverses the base of the southeast escarpment and upper Santa Clara River; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snow Canyon State Park
Snow Canyon State Park is a state park in Utah, located in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. The park features a canyon carved from the red and white Navajo sandstone of the Red Mountains, as well as the extinct Santa Clara Volcano, lava tubes, lava flows, and sand dunes. Snow Canyon is located near the cities of Ivins and St. George in Washington County. Description Snow Canyon State Park contains several sandstone canyons cut in the Red Mountains. On the north end of the park, West Canyon and Snow Canyon follow a parallel southward path and converge in the middle of the park. The park then continues south-by-southeastward as a single, larger canyon, that opens near the park's southern entrance out onto the Santa Clara bench near Ivins, Utah. A paved two-lane road (formerly SR-300) enters the park from Ivins on the south, winds up the canyon, then climbs the eastern edge to the bench above Snow Canyon. There the road joins State Route 18. The park boundaries extend nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veyo, Utah
Veyo (also Glencove) is a census-designated place in western Washington County, Utah, United States, on the edge of the Dixie National Forest. Description The town lies along State Route 18 north of the city of St. George, the county seat of Washington County. The elevation of Veyo is . Although Veyo is unincorporated, it has a post office with the ZIP code of 84782. The population was 483 at the 2010 census. One tradition says the community name is an acronym of ''virtue'', ''enterprise'', ''youth'', and ''order''; another says it combines ''verdure'' and ''youth''. There is a town of Veyo in Spain that is also referred to as La Peña, which means "rocky outcrop". Veyo became a distinct community from Gunlock in 1918. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 483 people living in the CDP. There were 193 housing units. The racial makeup of the town was 94.6% White, 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4% Asian, 0.2% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamond Valley (Washington County)
Diamond Valley is a valley in northern Washington County, Utah, United States, that is located about north of the northern limits of St. George on Utah State Route 18, just past the entrance to Snow Canyon State Park at an elevation of approximately 4500 ft, 1800 ft higher than the neighboring metropolis of St George. Meaning if the Empire State Building was moved to downtown St George, Diamond Valley would still be higher than the tip of that structure. The unincorporated community of Diamond Valley is located within the valley, as is the Santa Clara Volcano. 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 Washington County, Utah Valleys of Utah {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Valley Mountains
The Pine Valley Mountains are a mountain range in Washington County, Utah, United States, spanning the county north of the city of St. George. The highest point in the range is Signal Peak at . The mountains are part of Dixie National Forest and are bordered to the south by the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area. Geology The Pine Valley Mountains formed from the Pine Valley Laccolith, the largest laccolith in the United States and perhaps the world. The laccolith was formed during a 20 million-year period of volcanic activity. After 4-5,000 feet of volcanic deposited on the Claron Formation, the magma vents were effectively sealed off. A final surge of magma, unable to find its way to the surface, pushed sideways along the weak seam between the Claron and the overlying volcanic layers. This injected a 3,000 foot-thick layer of monzonite porphyry to form the Pine Valley laccolith. The contact between the top of the Claron and the bottom of the laccolith can be seen in sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
