Deep 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
Tooele County, Utah
Tooele County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 72,698. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele, Utah, Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organ ...
, USA. It heads in
Deep Creek Valley
Deep Creek Valley is a long valley located in southwest Tooele County, Utah, Tooele County at the Utah-Nevada border; the extreme south of the valley is in northwest Juab County, Utah, Juab County. The valley parallels the west flank of the Deep ...
at an elevation of at the confluence of
West Deep Creek and
East Deep Creek at . From there it flows northeast to dissipate in the
Great Salt Lake Desert
The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the ei ...
at an elevation of . At times of high water the stream may flow to
Tank Wash north northeast of
Gold Hill.
References
Great Salt Lake Desert
Rivers of Tooele County, Utah
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