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The Pahvant Range (also Pavant Range) is a mountain range in 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 ...
, United States, east of Fillmore.


Description

The range is named for the
Pahvant The Pahvant or Pahvants (''Pavant, Parant, Pahva-nits'') were a band of Ute people that lived in present-day Utah. Called the "Water People", they fished and hunted waterfowl. They were also farmers and hunter-gatherers. In the 18th century they w ...
tribe, a branch of the
Ute people Ute () are an Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin, Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico.Pritkzer''A Native American Encyclopedia'' p. 242 Historically, their t ...
. The tallest peaks are Pioneer Peak at , Mine Camp Peak at , Sunset Peak at , and Coffee Peak at . Most of the land in the Pavant range is part of
Fishlake National Forest Fishlake National Forest is a United States National Forest, U.S. National Forest located in south central Utah. The namesake for the forest is Fish Lake (Utah), Fish Lake, the largest freshwater mountain lake in the state. Wildlife Animals tha ...
. Richfield lies in the Sevier River valley to the southeast of the range and Fillmore lies in the Pavant Valley along the northwest side of the range. The Pavant Range merges into the Tushar Mountains on the south.


Transportation

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 ...
crosses the extreme north end of the range at Scipio pass, near Scipio.''Delta, Utah,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1989
Interstate 70 Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from Interstate 15, I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to Interstate 695 (Maryland), I-695 and Maryland Route 570 (MD 570) in Woodlawn, Baltimo ...
crosses at a pass between the Pavant Range and the Tushar Mountains to the south.''Richfield, Utah,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980


Meteorite

Iron meteorite Iron meteorites, also called siderites or ferrous meteorites, are a type of meteorite that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases: kamacite and taenite. Most iron me ...
fragments with a mass of named the Salina Meteorite were found in the Pavant Range in 1908.


References


External links


Utah Forest Alliance - Pavant Range
Fishlake National Forest Mountain ranges of Millard County, Utah Mountain ranges of Sevier County, Utah Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Utah {{Utah-geo-stub