The Antelope Valley of southwest

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, United States, is a small long valley, adjacent the Ferguson Desert and southwest of

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. The valley is just east of the

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border, with Snake Valley and the

Burbank Hills The Burbank Hills are a small northwest-southeast mountain range in western Utah, United States that lie entirely within the Hamlin-Snake Watershed, between the Snake Range and the Ferguson Desert. It is bounded by Snake Valley to the north, we ...

. The other Antelope Valley of Utah occurs east in the

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, in southeast Emery County and extending into adjacent Wayne County. The Desert Biosphere Reserve forms the entire southeast, central & south valley border, where the small, low elevation arid Tunnel Springs Mountains are located.Utah Atlas & Gazetteer, p. 40.

Description

The Antelope Valley is southwest-northeast trending with a drainage northeast into the Ferguson Desert area. The valley also drains from the northeast flank of the Mountain Home Range adjacent the Nevada border to the southwest. The valley is narrow, only about , at its widest.

Access

Utah State Route 21 State Route 21 (SR-21) is a state highway in western Utah, running for in Millard County, Utah, Millard and Beaver County, Utah, Beaver Counties from the Nevada state line near Garrison, Utah, Garrison to Beaver, Utah, Beaver. Route descripti ...

transects the upper region of the valley at the

alluvial fan An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment. They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to Semi-arid climate, semiar ...

s of the Mountain Home Range. Route 21 crossing the valley is a NNW trending section, coming from Frisco and

Milford, Utah Milford is a city in Beaver County, Utah, Beaver County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,431 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, up from the 2010 figure of 1,409. History Although settlers had established ranches in the ar ...

to the town site closest to the valley,

Garrison, Utah Garrison is an unincorporated community in western Millard County, Utah, United States. It is home to a Utah Department of Transportation yard and office, but other than that, offers no services. ZIP code The 84728 ZIP code, which includes Gar ...

, northwest of Antelope Valley, and on the Utah-Nevada state line.

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