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Deep Creek Valley
Deep Creek Valley is a long valley located in southwest Tooele County at the Utah-Nevada border; the extreme south of the valley is in northwest Juab County. The valley parallels the west flank of the Deep Creek Range, both north-trending. In the north-northeast, its outlet widens into the southwest of the Great Salt Lake Desert region. The mountain range turns southwest and west in the south, and encloses the higher altitude terrain of the valley; here, the Goshute Indian Reservation lies in the mountains and the Deep Creek Valley's south; the community of Goshute is adjacent the valley; the reservation also extends westward into Nevada, into the east of the Antelope Valley. Description Deep Creek Valley follows the drainage of the north-flowing Deep Creek. In the valley's southern half, from Ibapah, UT on Deep Creek, at the northwest of the Deep Creek Range, and south, ( East Deep Creek), to Goshute in the mountains, nine canyons and washes feed the Deep Creek system from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Creek Mountains
The Deep Creek Range, (often refereed to as the Deep Creek Mountains ( Goshute: Pi'a-roi-ya-bi), are a mountain range in the Great Basin located in extreme western Tooele and Juab counties in Utah, United States. The range trends north-south (with a curl to the west at the southern end, 16% of range in White Pine County, Nevada), and is composed of granite in its central highest portion. The valley to the east is Snake Valley, and to the west is Deep Creek Valley. Nearby communities include Callao, Utah to the east and the community of Ibapah and the lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation to the west. The highest point in the Deep Creek Range is Ibapah Peak, an ultra prominent peak, which rises to . Other peaks include Haystack Peak at and Red Mountain at . The range is the source of several perennial streams and supports a diverse coniferous forest, with an "island" of alpine tundra Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goshute Indian Reservation
The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation is located in Juab County, Utah, Tooele County, Utah, and White Pine County, Nevada, United States. It is one of two federally recognized tribes of Goshute people, the other being the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah. Government The tribe's headquarters is in Ibapah, Utah, which is an English adaption form a native Goshute term, either from Ai'ba-pa (one name of the last chief of the tribe who was also known under the common chieftain name ''ta'bi'') or from Ai-bim-pa / Ai'bĭm-pa ("White Clay Water" referring to the nearby Deep Creek). Their own name is Ai'bĭm-pa / Aipimpaa Newe ("People of Deep Creek Valley"). Reservation Approximately 200 tribal members live on the reservation, which is located in White Pine County in eastern Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Tooele County, Utah
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Valleys Of Utah
This is a list of valleys of Utah. Valleys are ordered alphabetically by county and then for the entire state. Beaver County * Beaver Valley (Utah) * Hamlin Valley * Milford Valley * Pine Valley (Beaver, Millard, Iron counties, Utah) (in Beaver, north Iron, and south Millard counties) * Wah Wah Valley Box Elder County * Bear River Valley * Blue Creek Valley * Curlew Valley * Junction Valley * Upper Raft River Valley Cache County * Ant Valley * Cache Valley Carbon County * Castle Valley (Carbon, Emery, and Sevier counties, Utah) * Emma Park * Whitmore Park Daggett County * Lucerne Valley Davis County * Salt Lake Valley Duchesne County * Pleasant Valley * Roosevelt Valley Emery County * Antelope Valley (Wayne-Emery counties, Utah) * Castle Valley (Carbon, Emery, and Sevier counties, Utah) * Gunnison Valley (Emery and Grand counties, Utah) * Joe's Valley * San Rafael Valley Garfield County * Bear Valley Junction, Utah * Circle Valley' * Johns Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Sage Flat (Nevada/Utah)
White Sage Flat is a flat in Elko County, Nevada and Tooele County, Utah. White Sage Flat lies mainly in Tooele County at an elevation near its center of . It extends westward into Elko County, Nevada at It lies east of the Antelope Valley badlands, and it lies just south and southeast of Ferber Peak Ferber Peak is a summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mount .... References {{coord, 40, 09, 00, N, 113, 59, 33, W, display=title Landforms of Elko County, Nevada Landforms of Tooele County, Utah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferber Hills
Ferber Hills is a range of hills in Elko County, Nevada and Tooele County, Utah. The range is formed in three parallel ridges of hills trending northwest to southeast. Its highest summit is Utah Peak, in the center of the central ridge of the range, at an elevation of , just east of the state line in Tooele County, Utah. Its second highest Summit is Ferber Peak, that rises to and elevation of , at the south end of the southernmost ridge of the range at just west of the state line in Elko County, Nevada. The highest point in the smaller northernmost ridge is an unnamed summit at with an elevation of in Tooele County. The range is divided from the Goshute Mountains badlands to the west and southwest by White Horse Flat and Ferber Flat. It is bounded on the east by Deep Creek Valley and Deep Creek that gives it its name, that divides it from the Deep Creek Range The Deep Creek Range, (often refereed to as the Deep Creek Mountains (Goshute: Pi'a-roi-ya-bi), are a mountain range i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Deep Creek (Deep Creek, Tooele County, Utah)
East Deep Creek is a stream tributary to Deep Creek in Tooele County, Utah. East Deep Creek has its source at its confluence with Fifteenmile Creek and an unnamed stream, at at an elevation of 6,025 feet / 1,836 meters, 0.75 miles north of Goshute.GNIS location coordinates and description of the confluence of the mouth of Fifteen Mile Creek with the unnamed creek at the head of East Deep Creek is in error. The one referenced here, 0.75 miles north of Goshute, is taken from the Georgetta Ranch topographical map. From there it flows north northeast to its confluence with West Deep Creek to form Deep Creek, 0.6 miles southwest of Ibapah Ibapah ( ) is a small unincorporated community in far western Tooele County, Utah, United States, near the Nevada state line. Description The settlement is located near the Deep Creek Mountains. The site was originally established in 1859 by ..., at an elevation of 5,282 feet / 1,610 meters. References Rivers of Tooele County, Ut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Creek Range
The Deep Creek Range, (often refereed to as the Deep Creek Mountains (Goshute: Pi'a-roi-ya-bi), are a mountain range in the Great Basin located in extreme western Tooele and Juab counties in Utah, United States. The range trends north-south (with a curl to the west at the southern end, 16% of range in White Pine County, Nevada), and is composed of granite in its central highest portion. The valley to the east is Snake Valley, and to the west is Deep Creek Valley. Nearby communities include Callao, Utah to the east and the community of Ibapah and the lands of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation to the west. The highest point in the Deep Creek Range is Ibapah Peak, an ultra prominent peak, which rises to . Other peaks include Haystack Peak at and Red Mountain at . The range is the source of several perennial streams and supports a diverse coniferous forest, with an "island" of alpine tundra on the highest summits. The range has a vertical relief of above the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Creek (Tooele County, Utah)
Deep Creek is stream in Tooele County, Utah Tooele County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 58,218. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year. Tooele Count ..., USA. It heads in Deep Creek Valley 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 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 {{Utah-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goshute, Utah
Goshute is an unincorporated community in Juab County, Utah, United States on the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation. It lies at an elevation of . Goshute is southeast of Eightmile, Nevada, the former site of Eightmile Station, (a Pony Express station, then a stagecoach station of the Overland Mail Company). See also * List of ghost towns in Utah This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Utah, a state of the United States. Classification Barren site * Sites no longer in existence * Sites that have been destroyed * Covered with water * Reverted to pasture * May have a few diffi ... References External links Unincorporated communities in Juab County, Utah Unincorporated communities in Utah Goshute {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a state in the Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the 7th-most extensive, the 32nd-most populous, and the 9th-least densely populated of the U.S. states. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area, including three of the state's four largest incorporated cities. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state. Nevada is officially known as the "Silver State" because of the importance of silver to its history and economy. It is also known as the "Battle Born State" because it achieved statehood during the Civil War (the words "Battle Born" also appear on its state flag); as the " Sagebrush State", for the native plant of the same name; and as the " Sage-hen State". The name means "snowy" in Spanish, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California. It is noted for both its arid climate and the basin and range topography that varies from the North American low point at Badwater Basin in Death Valley to the highest point of the contiguous United States, less than away at the summit of Mount Whitney. The region spans several physiographic divisions, biomes, ecoregions, and deserts. Definition The term "Great Basin" is applied to hydrographic, biological, floristic, physiographic, topographic, and ethnographic geographic areas. The name was originally coined by John C. Frémont, who, based on information gleaned from Joseph R. Walker as well as his own travels, recognized the hydrographic nature of the landform as "having no connection to the ocean". The hydrographic definition is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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