Parowan Creek, is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...
in 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 ...
of
Iron County, Utah
Iron County is a county in southwestern Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 57,289. Its county seat is Parowan, and the largest city is Cedar City. The Cedar City, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area i ...
. It flows north through
Parowan, Utah
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 ...
to its mouth at an elevation of at the
Little Salt Lake
Little Salt Lake (also called Parowan Lake), is a dry lake in east‑central Iron County, Utah, United States.
Description
The lake has an elevation and is located on the southwestern edge of the Parowan Valley at the eastern foot of the Red ...
in Parowan Valley. Its source is located at an elevation of 9,980 feet at in
Brian Head, Utah
Brian Head is a town in Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 83 at the 2010 census, a significant decrease from the 2000 figure of 118.
Brian Head is also the location of the Brian Head Ski Resort.
History
The community was o ...
in the
Markagunt Plateau
Markagunt Plateau is a volcanic field in southern Utah, United States. Formed in a region of older volcanics, it consists of several cinder cones and associated lava flows. Some of the lava flows feature lava tubes such as Mammoth Cave, while ot ...
.
History
Parowan Creek was originally known by the early travelers on the
Mormon Road
Mormon Road, also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route, of the California Trail in the Western United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of S ...
as the 3rd Creek in the ''Little Salt Lake Valley'', now known as the Parowan Valley, as one traveled southward in the valley. It was a camping spot on the road described in the 1851 Mormon Waybill as having: "...good feed, and wood."
[''Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others'']
LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324 Mormon Waybill, Joseph Cain and A. C. Brower, Salt Lake City, 1851. Road distances from readings of roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt
Jefferson Hunt (January 20, 1803 – May 11, 1879) was a U.S. western pioneer, soldier, and politician. He was a captain in the Mormon Battalion, brigadier general in the California State Militia, a California State Assemblyman, and a represent ...
Wagon Train.
See also
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List of rivers of Utah
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Utah in the United States, sorted by drainage basin, watershed.
Colorado River
The Colorado River is a major river in the Western United States, emptying into the Gulf of California. Rivers are liste ...
References
Rivers of Utah
Rivers of Iron County, Utah
Mormon Road
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