Deep Creek Valley is a long

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

located in southwest Tooele County at the

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border; the extreme south of the valley is in northwest

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. The valley parallels the west flank of 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 in the Great Basin located in extreme western Tooele and Juab counties in Utah, United States. The range trends north-south (wit ...

, both north-trending. In the north-northeast, its outlet widens into the southwest of 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 and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for w ...

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 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 Val ...

lies in the mountains and the Deep Creek Valley's south; the community of

Goshute The Goshutes are a tribe of Western Shoshone Native Americans. There are two federally recognized Goshute tribes today: * Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, located in Nevada and Utah * Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Ut ...

is adjacent the valley; the reservation also extends westward into Nevada, into the east of the

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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

, and south, ( East Deep Creek), to

in the mountains, nine canyons and washes feed the Deep Creek system from the Deep Creek Range. Hills west, about 7-9 mi of drainage, from

's east perimeter, washes flow east or northeast. The Deep Creek Valley is narrow, only about 4 mi, but follows circuitous routes around small hills, as well as Gold Hill northeast, and the Ferber Hills, northwest on the Nevada-Utah border. On Deep Creek, at the south of these two hill regions, and with the northwest convergence of the Deep Creek Range, is White Sage Flat. Washes and creeks converge here at the Flat, but Deep Creek continues on north-flowing. The center of the valley is between White Sage Flat, and Ibapah, to the south. File:Ibapah Utah.jpg, View in Ibapah, UT

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White Sage Flat, hometownlocator, coordinates
Map close-up of Deep Creek, west of Gold Hill Pass,

Gold Hill, Utah Gold Hill is an unincorporated community in far western Tooele County, Utah, located near the Nevada state line. History The town, located near the Deep Creek Mountains, was the center of a mining district that was active in the late nineteenth ...

) Great Salt Lake Desert Landforms of Tooele County, Utah Landforms of Juab County, Utah Valleys of Utah {{Utah-geo-stub

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