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Mormon Road
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los Angeles in 1847. From 1855, it became a military and commercial wagon route between California and Utah, called the Los Angeles – Salt Lake Road. In later decades this route was variously called the "Old Mormon Road", the "Old Southern Road", or the "Immigrant Road" in California. In Utah, Arizona and Nevada it was known as the "California Road". Mormon Road 1847–1855 Jefferson Hunt and Mormon Veterans Expeditions 1847–1848 The wagon road later called the "Mormon Road" was pioneered by a Mormon party with pack horses, led by Jefferson Hunt, intent on obtaining supplies for the stru ...
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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent river, intermittent streams are known as streamlets, brooks or creeks. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighting (streams), daylighted subterranean river, subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (Spring (hydrology), spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of precipitation. The stream encompasses surface, subsurface and groundwater fluxes th ...
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Millard County, Utah
Millard County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,503. Its county seat is Fillmore, and the largest city is Delta. History The Utah Territory legislature created the county on October 4, 1851, with territory not previously covered by county creations and including some area in the future state of Nevada. It was named for the thirteenth US President Millard Fillmore, who was in office then. Fillmore was designated as the county seat. The county boundaries were altered in 1852 and again in 1854. On March 2, 1861, the US government created the Nevada Territory, which effectively de-annexed the described portion of Millard County falling in that Territorial Proclamation. The county boundary was further altered in 1862, 1866, 1888, and in 1919. In 1921 a boundary adjustment with Sevier brought Millard to its present configuration. Fillmore, located near the geographic center of the territory, was originally built a ...
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Roadometer (odometer)
The roadometer was a 19th-century device like an odometer for measuring mileage, mounted on a wagon wheel. One such device was invented in 1847 by William Clayton, Orson Pratt, and Appleton Harmon, pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. History Brass odometers were used by many pioneers making the westward trek in the 1840s. However, the design of Clayton, Pratt, and Harmon's odometer was new. In 1847, William Clayton accompanied the first expedition to the Utah Territory as a writer and record-keeper. He initially counted revolutions of a wagon wheel to calculate the distance they had travelled. He tired of counting wheel revolutions and wanted a device that could measure the distanced a wagon travelled. It is possible he was familiar with the English viometers that measured distance using gears. Clayton asked Orson Pratt if it would be possible to make such a device, and Pratt created the design. Harmon carved the gears out of wood and may have further re ...
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Holden, Utah
Holden is a town in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 378 at the 2010 census. History Holden was settled in 1855 by a group of ten families sent out by the bishop of the local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Fillmore. Named Cedar Springs for the springs in the junipers that the community was built around. The town then assumed the name Buttermilk Fort because travelers passing through were encouraged to stop for a glass of cold buttermilk while resting. The town got its post office in 1864, and the town was renamed for Elijah E. Holden, a member of the Mormon Battalion who was one of the first settlers of Holden and died while caught in a snowstorm in 1858. Post Offices, Utah, Millard County, H ...
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Wild Goose Canyon
Wild Goose Canyon is a stream, in Millard County, Utah Millard County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,503. Its county seat is Fillmore, and the largest city is Delta. History The Utah Territory legislature created the county on ..., USA. Its mouth is located just north of Wild Goose Spring at an elevation of . Its head is at an elevation of at in the Pahvant Range. References Rivers of Millard County, Utah Rivers of Utah {{Utah-river-stub ...
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Pahvant Range
The Pahvant Range (also Pavant Range) is a mountain range in central Utah, United States, east of Fillmore. Description The range is named for the Pahvant tribe, a branch of the Ute people. The tallest peak is Mine Camp Peak at . Most of the land in the Pavant range is part of Fishlake National Forest. Richfield lies in the Sevier River valley to the southeast of the range and Fillmore lies in the Pavant Valley along the northwest side of the range. The Pavant Range merges into the Tushar Mountains on the south. Transportation Interstate 15 crosses the extreme north end of the range at Scipio pass, near Scipio.''Delta, Utah,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1989 Interstate 70 crosses at a pass between the Pavant Range and the Tushar Mountains to the south.''Richfield, Utah,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980 Meteorite Iron meteorite Iron meteorites, also known as siderites, or ferrous meteorites, are a type of meteorite that consist overwhelming ...
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List Of Rivers Of Utah
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Utah in the United States, sorted by drainage basin, watershed. Colorado River The Colorado River is a major river in the Western United States, emptying into the Gulf of California. Rivers are listed upstream by the point they empty into the Colorado. * Meadow Valley Wash (located entirely in Nevada, but its watershed has several extremely small portions in Utah) * Virgin River ** Beaver Dam Wash ** Santa Clara River (Utah), Santa Clara River ** Ash Creek (Utah), Ash Creek ** Fort Pearce Wash ** East Fork Virgin River ** North Fork Virgin River * Kanab Creek * Paria River ** Buckskin Gulch * San Juan River (Colorado River tributary), San Juan River ** Chinle Creek ** Montezuma Creek (Utah), Montezuma Creek ** McElmo Creek * Escalante River ** Coyote Gulch * Dirty Devil River ** Fremont River (Utah), Fremont River *** Sulphur Creek (Fremont River), Sulphur Creek **** Sand Creek (Wayne County, Utah), Sand Creek ** Muddy Creek (Utah), M ...
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Rivers Of Utah
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Utah in the United States, sorted by watershed. Colorado River The Colorado River is a major river in the Western United States, emptying into the Gulf of California. Rivers are listed upstream by the point they empty into the Colorado. * Meadow Valley Wash (located entirely in Nevada, but its watershed has several extremely small portions in Utah) * Virgin River ** Beaver Dam Wash ** Santa Clara River ** Ash Creek ** Fort Pearce Wash ** East Fork Virgin River ** North Fork Virgin River * Kanab Creek * Paria River ** Buckskin Gulch * San Juan River ** Chinle Creek ** Montezuma Creek ** McElmo Creek * Escalante River ** Coyote Gulch * Dirty Devil River ** Fremont River *** Sulphur Creek **** Sand Creek ** Muddy Creek * Green River ** San Rafael River ** Price River *** White River ** Range Creek ** Willow Creek ** White River ** Duchesne River *** Uinta River **** Whiterocks River *** Lake Fork River **** Yellowston ...
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