Sevier Lake

Periodic waters ( size is the maximum value)

The Sevier Lake is an intermittent and endorheic lake in Millard County, Utah.

As the Great Salt Lake and the Utahsee he is a remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. The lake fills the southern part of the Sevier Desert and receives sporadic inflow from the Sevier River and the Beaver River and other rivers of the hydrological Escalante Sevier subregion. Over a large period of recorded history, the bed of the lake was dry and is a source of dust storms in the north of the state.

The expedition of Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez named by them discovered lake after the cartographer Bernardo Miera y Pacheco of the expedition as Laguna de Miera. The acting in the region around 1825 fur traders William Henry Ashley was the inspiration for the proposed name of Jedediah Smith Ashley Lake; on some maps of the 19th century, he is also named after Joseph Nicollet.

Today the lake is named after its main tributary, the Spanish explorers in the 18th century as Rio Severo ( Wild River ) designated.

In 1872, a water coverage of 188 square miles (487 km ² ) was measured, the maximum water depth was 15 ft. ( 4.60 meters ). The salinity was 86 ‰, equivalent to about 250 % of the average salinity of the sea. Probably in 1878 he had completely dried up. Despite the intensive use of the Sevier River for irrigation around the Beaver River Delta and around Milford Lake reached in 1987 again the extent of the year 1872.

• Lake in North America
• Lake in Utah
• Salt lake
• Great Basin
• Millard County