Beaver Valley is a long small valley located in eastern
Beaver 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. The valley is nestled between three mountain ranges, with the
Mineral Mountains at its western border, but also an outlying peak section on the mountain range northeast, forming the northern border of the valley.
Beaver Valley is the location of the
county seat
A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...
of
Beaver
Beavers (genus ''Castor'') are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere. There are two existing species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers are the second-large ...
, and from the mountains numerous creeks, streams, and the
Beaver River converge. In the valley's southwest,
Minersville Reservoir is the downstream region of the valley. From the west end of the reservoir, the Beaver River goes west past
Minersville into the northeast of the
Escalante Desert
The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in southwestern Utah.
Geography
The Escalante Desert is northwest of Cedar City in Iron County, Utah, and ext ...
, and towards
Sevier Lake
Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake which lies in the lowest part of the Sevier Desert, Millard County, Utah, United States. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Sevier Lake is fed p ...
(north).
Description
The valley is mostly a north trending valley. In the north the small mountains at the northeast of the Mineral Mountains divide the valley into a northwest section, and a northeast section, (the route of Interstate 15 to Sulphurdale).
In the valley's center and south, the widest section is about 12-mi wide. The south end of the valley borders an east-west stretch of the Black Mountains, at its northeast terminus region; I-15 traverses southwest past the mountain range, and into the northeast of Parowan Valley. Also, the south end of the valley has the location of
Greenville, Utah
Greenville is an unincorporated community in eastern Beaver County, Utah, United States.
Description
The community lies along State Route 21 southwest of the city of Beaver (the county seat of Beaver County). Its elevation is . Although G ...
, located on the ''Greenville Bench'', along the east-west mountain foothills.
Access
Interstate 15
Interstate 15 (I-15) is a major Interstate Highway in the Western United States, running through Southern California and the Intermountain West. I-15 begins near the Mexican border in San Diego County and stretches north to Alberta, Ca ...
traverses the center sections of the valley, north-south. Northbound I-15 heads toward
Sulphurdale, about distant.
[Utah DeLorme Atlas, pp. 42, 50.] Southbound I-15 turns southwest into the
Parowan Valley
Parowan Valley, originally known as the Little Salt Lake Valley, is a basin in 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 ...
to meet
Parowan
Parowan ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,790 at the 2010 census, and in 2018 the estimated population was 3,100.
Parowan became the first incorporated city in Iron County in 1851. A ...
.
SR-21 from Minersville, enters the valley's southwest, traverses the southwest of the Minersville Reservoir, and ends at Beaver. From Beaver,
Utah State Route 153 transits eastward, and enters the
Tushar Mountains
The Tushar Mountains are the third-highest mountain range in Utah after the Uinta Mountains and the La Sal Range. Located in the Fishlake National Forest, Delano Peak, 12,174 ft (3,711 m) NAVD 88, is the highest point in both Beaver County ...
through Beaver Canyon, and traverses the center-south of the Tushar range.
See also
*
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, Utah, Beaver County
* Beaver Valley (Utah)
* Hamlin Valley
* Milford Valley
* Pine Valley (Beaver, Millard, Iron coun ...
References
External links
Minersville Reservoir, southwest Beaver Valley region, (topoquest)
Valleys of Beaver County, Utah
Valleys of Utah
Valleys of the Great Basin
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