Red Creek 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 ...
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 an elevation of near
Paragonah, Utah
Paragonah ( ) is a town in Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 488 at the 2010 census.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 470 people, 156 households, and 122 families residing in the town. The population densit ...
. Its source is located at an elevation of 9,560 feet at near Willow Spring in the
Markagunt Plateau
Markagunt Plateau is a volcanic field in southern Utah, United States. Formed in a region of older volcanics, it consists of several cinder cones and associated lava flows. Some of the lava flows feature lava tubes such as Mammoth Cave, while othe ...
.
History
Red Creek was originally known by 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 ...
as the 2nd Creek in the ''Little Salt Lake Valley'', now known as the
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 ...
, as one traveled southward in the valley. It was a camping spot on the road described in the 1851 Mormon Waybill as having: "...good feed, and wood."
[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.
See also
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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
The Colorado River is a major river in the Western United States, emptying into the Gulf of California. Rivers are list ...
References
Rivers of Utah
Rivers of Iron County, Utah
Mormon Road
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