Coal 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 strea ...
in eastern
Iron County,
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
, United States.
Description
The creek's mouth was at an elevation of in
Cedar Valley in 1979, but that location is now a farm field, and its new terminus is located a little further upstream, northwest of
Cedar City
Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States. Located south of Salt Lake City, it is north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15 in Utah, Interstate 15. Southern Utah University is located in Cedar City. It is the home of the Ut ...
. Its source is at the confluence of
Crow Creek and
Ashdown Creek, in
Cedar Canyon, at the foot of
Cedar Mountain at at an elevation of . Coal Creek passes through Cedar City on its way to Cedar Valley.
See also
*
List of rivers in Utah
References
External links
Rivers of Utah
Rivers of Iron County, Utah
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