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

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, in

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. In 1979 it became part of Garden City. The town of Pickleville 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

Public Works Administration The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by United States Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was ...

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

musical theater Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, moveme ...

, 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 a region, 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 meteorolog ...

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 divides Earth climates into five main climate groups, with each group being divided based on patterns of seasonal precipitation and temperature. The five main groups are ''A'' (tropical), ''B'' (arid), ''C'' (te ...

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 cold ...

, 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