Red Creek (Paragonah)

Red Creek is a stream in Iron County, Utah. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 5,925 feet (1,806 meters) near Paragonah, Utah. Its source is located at an elevation of 9,560 feet at 37°48′55″N 112°40′32″W near Willow Spring in the Markagunt Plateau.[1]

History

Red Creek was originally known by the early travelers on the Mormon Road as the 2nd 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."[2]

See also

• List of rivers of Utah

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Red Creek
2. 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.

37°53′02″N 112°46′07″W