Pickelville was a small town located near the western shore of Bear Lake, northeast of

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, in

Rich County, Utah Rich County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 2,264, making it the third-least populous county in Utah. Its county seat is Randolph, and the largest town is Garden City. The county ...

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. It is now part of Garden City. The town of Pickelville was founded in 1879, about south of Garden City. Incorporated in 1935, the town was named for Charles C. Pickel, who is said to have been either an engineer who supervised the town's culinary water project, or a federal government official who helped secure funding for the project from the

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. To further expand the water system, Pickelville merged with Garden City in 1979. Since 1916, the Pickelville area has been home to the Ideal Beach Amusement Company. The

Pickleville Playhouse The Pickleville Playhouse is a musical theater on the banks of Bear Lake (Idaho–Utah), Bear Lake in Garden City, Utah, United States. LeGrande and Betty Larsen founded the Playhouse following their vision of creating a family-friendly theater th ...

, a community

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, has been in business since 1977, performing a melodrama and a Broadway-style show every summer.

Climate

This

climatic Climate is the long-term weather pattern in an area, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteorologic ...

region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the

Köppen Climate Classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

system, Pickelville has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.Climate Summary for Pickelville, Utah
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References

External links

Pickleville Playhouse WebsiteIdeal Beach Resort Website
* Former towns in Utah Populated places established in 1879 Former populated places in Rich County, Utah Populated places disestablished in 1979 Garden City, Utah {{utah-geo-stub