Chalk Creek (Millard County, Utah)
Chalk Creek is a stream in Millard County, Utah. It was originally known as 3rd Creek south of Sevier River to the early travelers on the Mormon Road.[1][2] Its mouth is at the endorheic basin called "The Sink" in the Pahvant Valley at an elevation of 4,639 feet (1,414 m). Its source is located at the confluence of North Fork Chalk Creek with South Fork Chalk Creek, at an elevation of 5,482 feet (1,671 m), at 38°56′59″N 112°16′06″W / 38.94972°N 112.26833°W in the Pahvant Range. Filmore is 3 miles (4.8 km) below the source of Chalk Creek along the south bank of the stream.[3]
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References
- ^ 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 a roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.
- ^ Randolph Barnes Marcy, THE PRAIRIE TRAVELER. A HAND-BOOK FOR OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS. WITH MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ITINERARIES OF THE PRINCIPAL ROUTES BETWEEN THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE PACIFIC., PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; ITINERARY VI. From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. from the Kansas Collection website accessed 05/22/2015
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chalk Creek
39°01′48″N 112°26′50″W / 39.03000°N 112.44722°W
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