Fremont Wash sometimes called Fremont Canyon in its upper reach, is a
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 ...
and a
valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...
in the north end of
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 ...
, in
Iron County, Utah
Iron County is a county in southwestern Utah, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 46,163. Its county seat is Parowan, and the largest city is Cedar City.
The Cedar City, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area incl ...
. Its mouth lies at its confluence with
Little Salt Lake
Little Salt Lake (also called Parowan Lake), is a dry lake in east‑central Iron County, Utah, United States.
Description
The lake has an elevation and is located on the southwestern edge of the Parowan Valley at the eastern foot of the Red ...
at an elevation of 5,686 feet / 1,733 meters. Its head is found at , the mouth of
Fremont Canyon, an elevation of 6,476 feet / 1,974 meters.
History
Fremont Wash was originally known as North Canyon Creek for the North Canyon from which it issued into the Parowan Valley at
Muley Point.
[LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324 Mormon Waybill, Joseph Cain and A. C. Brower, Salt Lake City, 1851]
Road distances from readings of roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train. North Canyon consisted of what is now Fremont Canyon and the valley of Fremont Wash between the
Black Mountains and
Hurricane Cliffs
The Hurricane Cliffs of southwest Utah and northwest Arizona are a red, limestone geographic feature, sets of cliffs along the western, eroded edge of the Kaibab Limestone; the cliffs are about 135-mi (217 km) long,''Utah Atlas & Gazeteer ...
to Muley Point.
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 ...
, the camp on North Canyon Creek, given the mileage recorded by Addison Pratt, was 27.5 miles south of the ford on the Beaver River.
[ Captain Marcy's ''Prairie Traveler'' said it was in "... ]Little Salt Lake Valley
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, Good grass; no wood."[ Randolph Barnes Marcy, THE PRAIRIE TRAVELER. A HAND-BOOK FOR OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS. WITH MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ITINERARIES OF THE PRINCIPAL ROUTES BETWEEN THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE PACIFIC., PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; ITINERARY VI. From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.]
from the Kansas Collection website accessed 05/22/2015 That would put it near Wheatgrass, Utah just above the Little Salt Lake
Little Salt Lake (also called Parowan Lake), is a dry lake in east‑central Iron County, Utah, United States.
Description
The lake has an elevation and is located on the southwestern edge of the Parowan Valley at the eastern foot of the Red ...
.
References
Valleys of Iron County, Utah
Valleys of Utah
Rivers of Utah
Rivers of Iron County, Utah
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