Fremont Wash

Fremont Wash sometimes called Fremont Canyon in its upper reach, is a stream and a valley in the north end of Parowan Valley, in Iron County, Utah. Its mouth lies at its confluence with Little Salt Lake at an elevation of 5,686 feet / 1,733 meters. Its head is found at 38°07′46″N 112°34′36″W / 38.12944°N 112.57667°W / 38.12944; -112.57667, the mouth of Fremont Canyon, an elevation of 6,476 feet / 1,974 meters.[1] [2]

History

Fremont Wash was originally known as North Canyon Creek for the North Canyon from which it issued into the Parowan Valley at Muley Point.[3] North Canyon consisted of what is now Fremont Canyon and the valley of Fremont Wash between the Black Mountains and Hurricane Cliffs to Muley Point.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fremont Wash
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fremont Canyon
  3. ↑ LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, 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, 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 Wagon Train.

Coordinates: 37°55′59″N 112°51′18″W / 37.93306°N 112.85500°W / 37.93306; -112.85500

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