Beaver Valley is a long small valley located in eastern Beaver County,

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. The valley is nestled between three mountain ranges, with the Mineral Mountains at its western border, but also an outlying peak section on the mountain range northeast, forming the northern border of the valley. Beaver Valley is the location of the

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Beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...

, and from the mountains numerous creeks, streams, and the Beaver River converge. In the valley's southwest,

Minersville Reservoir Minersville Reservoir is a reservoir in Beaver County, Utah, United States. History Minersville Reservoir was created in 1914 by the construction of the Rocky Ford dam, an Embankment dam to impound water from the Beaver River which heads in th ...

is the downstream region of the valley. From the west end of the reservoir, the Beaver River goes west past Minersville into the northeast of the

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, and towards

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 ...

(north).

Valley description

The valley is mostly a north trending valley. In the north the small mountains at the northeast of the Mineral Mountains divide the valley into a northwest section, and a northeast section, (the route of Interstate 15 to Sulphurdale). In the valley's center and south, the widest section is about 12-mi wide. The south end of the valley borders an east-west stretch of the Black Mountains, at its northeast terminus region; I-15 traverses southwest past the mountain range, and into the northeast of Parowan Valley. Also, the south end of the valley has the location of

Greenville, Utah Greenville is an unincorporated community in eastern Beaver County, Utah, United States. Description The community lies along State Route 21 southwest of the city of Beaver (the county seat of Beaver County). Its elevation is . Although Gre ...

, located on the ''Greenville Bench'', along the east-west mountain foothills.

Access

Interstate 15 Interstate 15 (I-15) is a major Interstate Highway System, Interstate Highway in the western United States, running through Southern California and the Intermountain West. I-15 begins near the Mexico–United States border, Mexican border i ...

traverses the center sections of the valley, north-south. Northbound I-15 heads toward Sulphurdale, about distant.Utah DeLorme Atlas, pp. 42, 50. Southbound I-15 turns southwest into the

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 dra ...

to meet

Parowan Parowan ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,790 at the 2010 census, and in 2018 the estimated population was 3,100. Parowan became the first incorporated city in Iron County in 1851. A ...

. SR-21 from Minersville, enters the valley's southwest, traverses the southwest of the Minersville Reservoir, and ends at Beaver. From Beaver,

Utah State Route 153 State Route 153 (SR-153) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. Just over half of the western portion of the highway has been designated the Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway as part of the Utah Scenic Byways and National Forest Scenic Byways pr ...

transits eastward, and enters the

Tushar Mountains The Tushar Mountains are the third-highest mountain range in Utah after the Uinta Mountains and the La Sal Range. Located in the Fishlake National Forest, Delano Peak, 12,174 ft (3,711 m) NAVD 88, is the highest point in both Beaver and P ...

through Beaver Canyon, and traverses the center-south of the Tushar range.

References

External links

Minersville Reservoir, southwest Beaver Valley region, (topoquest)
Valleys of Beaver County, Utah Valleys of Utah Valleys of the Great Basin {{Utah-geo-stub