Davenport Creek is a

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in Cache County,

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. It is also located within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and its

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is about southeast of Avon. The creek rises in the

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(at a point about west of the

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with Weber County) and flows briefly southwest. It then turns northwest and runs in that direction for most of its course before emptying into the South Fork Little Bear River at a point immediately west of Utah State Route 162. (The Little Bear River in turn, flows roughly north-northeast, through the

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, until it reaches the Bear River in the

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. The Bear River then flows south to the

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.) The main

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of Davenport Creek are Pole Creek, Bald Head Creek, Smith Creek, and Fish Creek. Davenport Creek was named for James Davenport, a lumberman.

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Rivers of Cache County, Utah Rivers of Utah {{Utah-river-stub

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