Fremont Wash sometimes called Fremont Canyon in its upper reach, is a

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and a

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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

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, 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 Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt * ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film *The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...

, 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

References

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