Sevier River

The Sevier River in Leamington ( Millard County)

Course of the Sevier River

The Sevier River is a river in the southwestern part of Utah. It is about 450 km (280 mi ) long and flows through an area of ​​14,245 km ² ( 5,500 mi ²). The direction of flow forms the shape of a large horseshoe.

Description

The endorheic river is located in the Great Basin, an endorheic sink and therefore has no mouth, but evaporates in the desert climate. It rises in northwestern Kane County, flows along the western side of the Paunsaugunt plateau and further north in the Garfield County in the places Hatch and Panguitch over. At the boundary between Garfield County and Piute County Sevier River flows through a gorge, the Circleville Canyon ( about five miles and five miles long ). It flows through Piute County to Marysvale, continuing through the Sevier Canyon and northeast of Richfield and Salina over. Approximately 32 km (20 miles) southwest of Nephi in Juab County will change the flow direction of the river to the west. It flows on the northern end of the canyon montains in the Sevier Desert (Desert), to Delta in Millard County in the past on large parts of the year dry Sevier Lake, which lies on the western side of cricket montains in central Millard County. This has no outlet, the water evaporates.

1776 explored the Dominguez -Escalante expedition as the first white sparsely populated region of Ute Indians. They noticed that the Ute the Sevier with the same name as designated the Green River to the east. Bernardo Miera y Pacheco your cartographer was therefore erroneously the Green River in a south-westerly rather than a southerly direction to its card, and thus created the first mention of the legendary Buenaventura River, which until well into the nineteenth century erroneously from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast in countless cards was added. It was not until 1844 John Charles Frémont recognized on a surveying expedition, that there can be no flow with the presumed course.