The Ferguson Desert is a small valley in the Hamlin-Snake Watershed of west-central

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 ...

, southeast of the Snake Valley to the northwest, and is bound by the

Burbank Hills The Burbank Hills are a small northwest-southeast mountain range in western Utah, United States that lie entirely within the Hamlin-Snake Watershed, between the Snake Range and the Ferguson Desert. It is bounded by Snake Valley to the north, we ...

to the west, the Tunnel Springs Mountains, Pine Valley, and Wah Wah Valley to the south, and the

House Range The House Range is a north-south trending mountain range in Millard County, of west-central Utah. The House Range was named in 1859 by James H. Simpson. It was named by Simpson because "...of its well-defined stratification and the resemblan ...

to the north and east;

Antelope Valley The Antelope Valley is a valley primarily located in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States and the southeast portion of Kern County, California, Kern County, and constitutes the western tip of the Mojave Desert. It is situated ...

from the southwest is the southeast border of the Burbank Hills. It is named after James (Jim) Ferguson of

Ibapah, Utah 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 b ...

.Van Cott, J. W., 1990, Utah Place Names, He established a large ranch in the area. The term

desert A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About one-third of the la ...

comes from the large hardpan ( salt flat) that covers the area.

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