Shivwits is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in west-central
Washington 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.
It is occupied by the
Shivwits Band of Paiutes.
Description
The community is located along the
Santa Clara River and the former routing of
U.S. Route 91
U.S. Route 91 or U.S. Highway 91 (US 91) is a north–south United States highway running from Brigham City, Utah, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, in the U.S. states of Idaho and Utah. Despite the "1" as the last digit in the number, US 91 is no ...
within the Shivwits Reservation, northeast of the
Beaver Dam Mountains and southwest of the
Red Mountains.
See also
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Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Utah
Unincorporated communities in Utah