Corn Creek, also called Kanosh Creek, is a
stream
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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 ...
. Its mouth is located in the
Pahvant Valley. Its source is at the
confluence
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of
East Fork Corn Creek and
West Fork Corn Creek in the
Pahvant Range.
History
The location near the mouth of Corn Creek was originally a stopping place known as ''Willow Flats'' for the early travelers on the
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 S ...
.
[ Road distances from readings of roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.] On January 17, 1851, George A. Smith, leader of Mormon colonists who were on their way to establish the colony at
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 ...
, wrote about Willow Flat to
Brigham Young
Brigham Young (; June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second President of the Church (LDS Church), president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1847 until his ...
, that the area was, "... a prospect for a colony not to be slighted... Corn Creek sinks and forms a large meadow. The grazing is extensive; the range very good... the soil had the appearance of being very good... it seemed to suit many farmers of our camp, who would have been perfectly satisfied to have remained at that point."
From 1851, Corn Creek was where Brigham Young, as territorial superintendent of Indian affairs for Utah, established an Indian farm for the Pahvant Indians, one of a three such farms in Utah Territory. Settlers from
Fillmore grew potatoes, wheat, and corn to supplement the beans, corn, potatoes, pumpkins and squash that the Corn Creek band of Pahvants had grown at their village farther up the creek for years under their chief
Kanosh. Here at Kanosh's request they were to be taught the Mormon's farming methods under the direction of a local Indian agent.
[ The ]Corn Creek Indian Farm Corn Creek Indian Farm was a farm established in 1855 for the Pahvant Utes on Corn Creek in Millard County, Utah. It was located just downstream from the Pahvant village of Kanosh. It was abandoned in 1867.
History
The Pahvants were already far ...
on Corn Creek existed there from 1855 to 1867, when most of its native inhabitants took down their farms and moved to the new Ute reservation, leaving the land for the new settlement of Kanosh.
In 1859, settlers from Fillmore, settled where the Mormon Road crossed the creek northwest of the Corn Creek village and farm. It was named for Peter Robison, its first post master, Petersburg (1859-1877). Petersburg was one of the larger stations and rest stops on the Gilmer and Salisbury Stage Company line from the Utah Central Railroad and Utah Southern Railroad rail head to the mining boom town of Pioche, Nevada
Pioche is an unincorporated town in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States, approximately northeast of Las Vegas. U.S. Route 93 is the main route to Pioche and bypasses the town center just to the east, with Nevada State Route 321 and Nevada ...
from 1864 to 1871. From 1877 to 1940, an agricultural settlement there had a post office called Hatton
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. This settlement is now a ghost town
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, with little to see of its past existence among the irrigated fields.[
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See also
*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
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References
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Mormon Road
Rivers of Millard County, Utah