Orangeville (Utah)
Emery County
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Orangeville is a small town on the type of a city in northwestern Emery County in the U.S. state of Utah, and has 1,470 inhabitants ( 2010). Orangeville is located on Cottonwood Creek on the east flank of the Wasatch Plateau above its twin town of Castle Dale, the county seat of Emery County.
The economic base of the community are the Wilberg Mine, a coal mine and a coal-fired power plant PacifiCorp in Castle Dale. In addition to the slowly increasing tourism in the Manti La Sal National Forest above the village.
Geography
The valley of Cottonwood Creek is the middle of three tributaries to the San Rafael River, the Castle Valley crosses and watered before it flows to the Green River. Orangeville is located at the outlet of the river valley from the Canyon from the Wasatch Plateau, between the Utah State Route 29 and the Utah 57, leading from the Castle Valley to the plateau. According to the site structure, agricultural land along the river stretch from the southeast and southwest of the village and in a small valley structure in the northwest.
History
The Native American settlement of the region dates back to the Archaic period. The Fremont culture has left numerous rock paintings and petroglyphs. At the time of first contact with white people, the region was home-range of the Ute. The Castle Valley is located near the Old Spanish Trail from Nuevo Mexico to Alta California and was attended by White traders and pioneers sporadically.
The first commercial use of the region came from ranchers from the Sanpete County Wasatch Plateau beyond, who led their flocks in the Castle Valley from 1875. 1877 began the systematic colonization of the Castle Valley by Mormon pioneers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons) were sent into the valley to beantspruchen the settlement region before it could do non- Mormon settlers.
Orangeville emerged from the Castle Dale founded in 1878, the retired situated around ten kilometers sparsely populated at the Cottonwood Creek along. It was in 1880 officially measured and thereby divided into two settlement centers, Upper Castle Dale and Lower Castle Dale. Upper Castle Dale was called in 1882 in Orangeville order as a separate name was needed because of a new post office. The name comes from Orange Seely, the first bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ LDS in Castle Valley. The settlers came primarily from the region to Manti beyond the Wasatch Plateau as the valley of Cottonwood Creek by irrigation canals for agriculture was developed. The city status was given Orangeville in March 1921. Around this time, the coal deposits were developed on the slopes of the Wasatch Plateau.
In the 1930s the coal mining industry suffered from the Great Depression, the city did not recover for several decades by the decline in jobs. In the 1960s, the Cottonwood Creek was dammed in countries Bergen on Joe's Valley Reservoir, whereby not only the irrigation of agricultural land has been stabilized, but also today a popular recreational area with water sports and recreation around the lake was created.
In the 1970s, the Utah Power and Light Company built a coal-fired power plant near Castle Dale, which also employed workers from Orangeville. It is now run by a merger by PacifiCorp. Since then, the population of the two settlements at Cottonwood Creek increased significantly.