The Antelope Valley of southwest

Millard County 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 ...

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, United States, is a small long valley, adjacent the

Ferguson Desert The Ferguson Desert is a small valley in the Hamlin-Snake Watershed of west-central Utah, southeast of the Snake Valley to the northwest, and is bound by the Burbank Hills to the west, the Tunnel Springs Mountains, Pine Valley, and Wah Wah Val ...

and southwest of

Sevier Lake Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by the B ...

. The valley is just east of the

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border, with Snake Valley and the

Burbank Hills The Burbank Hills are a small northwest-southeast mountain range in western Utah, United States that lie entirely within the Hamlin-Snake Watershed, between the Snake Range and the Ferguson Desert. It is bounded by Snake Valley to the north, wes ...

. The other Antelope Valley of Utah occurs east in the

Great Basin The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic basin, endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California ...

, in southeast

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and extending into adjacent Wayne County. The

Desert Biosphere Reserve The Desert Biosphere Reserve and Experimental Range is a biosphere reserve and experimental range in western Millard County, Utah, United States, that is listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Description The ...

forms the entire southeast, central & south valley border, where the small, low elevation arid

Tunnel Springs Mountains A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through surrounding soil, earth or rock, and enclosed except for the entrance and exit, commonly at each end. A pipeline is not a tunnel, though some recent tunnels have used immersed tube constr ...

are located.Utah Atlas & Gazetteer, p. 40.

Description

The Antelope Valley is southwest-northeast trending with a drainage northeast into the Ferguson Desert area. The valley also drains from the northeast flank of the

Mountain Home Range The Mountain Home Range is a north-south trending mountain range in western Beaver County in southwest Utah, United States. It is part of the Basin and Range Province. It is bound by Hamlin Valley to the west, Snake Valley (part of this area kno ...

adjacent the Nevada border to the southwest. The valley is narrow, only about , at its widest.

Access

Utah State Route 21 State Route 21 (SR-21) is a state highway in western Utah, running for in Millard and Beaver Counties from the Nevada state line near Garrison to Beaver. Route description SR-21 begins at the Nevada state line as a continuation of Nevada Stat ...

transects the upper region of the valley at the

alluvial fan An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to semiarid climates, but a ...

s of the Mountain Home Range. Route 21 crossing the valley is a NNW trending section, coming from Frisco and

Milford, Utah Milford is a city in Beaver County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,409 at the 2010 census and 1,394 as of a 2019 Census Bureau estimate. History Although settlers had established ranches in the area in the 1870s, Milford was not de ...

to the town site closest to the valley,

Garrison, Utah Garrison is an unincorporated community in western Millard County, Utah, United States. It is home to a Utah Department of Transportation yard and office, but other than that, offers no services. ZIP code The 84728 ZIP code, which includes Garr ...

, northwest of Antelope Valley, and on the Utah-Nevada state line.

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{{Great Basin watersheds, state=collapsed Valleys of Utah Valleys of Millard County, Utah Valleys of the Great Basin

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