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Stinky Springs
Stinking Hot Springs are geothermally heated natural Spring (hydrology), springs located in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The springs are located about southwest of Bear River City, near Utah State Route 83 northwest of Corinne, Utah, Corinne. Locally known as Stinky Springs, the site is one of four hot springs located along the Wasatch Range near the eastern border of the county. The source of the "stink" is pungent hydrogen sulfide gas that emerges with the water. History The springs were reportedly "discovered" in 1868. After settlement the Stinky Springs were first owned by Corinne pioneer Hiram House. According to a 1941 history of Corinne, Utah, Hiram's son W. F. House inherited the springs land and attempted to capitalize on the water resource: "He owned much of the land in and around the town at one time and most of the small mountain, called 'Little Mountain' located about six miles west, with the railroad running around its southern tip. Here his boundless en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corinne, Utah
} Corinne ( ) is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 809 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 figure of 685. History For almost ten years from its founding on 25 March 1869, the town of Corinne prospered as the unofficial " Gentile Capital of Utah". As the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads approached their historic meeting place at Promontory Summit early in 1869, a group of former Union Army officers and some determined non-Mormon merchants from Salt Lake City decided to locate a Gentile town on the Union Pacific line, believing that the town could compete economically and politically with the Saints of Utah. They chose a location about six miles west of Brigham City on the west bank of the Bear River where the railroad crossed that stream. Named by one of the founders ( General J. A. Williamson) for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Corinne was designed to be the freight-transfer point for the shipment of goods and supplies to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
