Utah Hill Summit

Utah Hill Summit is a summit and a gap in the Beaver Dam Mountains in Washington County, Utah. It lies at an elevation of 4,731 / 1,442 meters.[1]

History

The route of the Old Spanish Trail and the Mormon Road passed over "Utah Hill".[2][3]

Today it is the route of Highway 91, from Littlefield, Arizona to Saint George, Utah passes over Utah Hill Summit.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Utah Hill Summit
  2. ↑ LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal,Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, Published by: University of California Press, DOI:10.2307/3816035
  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 rodeometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.

Coordinates: 37°06′10″N 113°49′37″W / 37.10278°N 113.82694°W / 37.10278; -113.82694

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