Fremont Wash Explained

Fremont Wash sometimes called Fremont Canyon in its upper reach, is a stream and a valley in the north end of Parowan Valley, in Iron County, Utah. Its mouth lies at its confluence with Little Salt Lake at an elevation of 5686abbr=offNaNabbr=off. Its head is found at 38.1294°N -112.5767°W, the mouth of Fremont Canyon, an elevation of 6476abbr=offNaNabbr=off.

History

Fremont Wash was originally known as North Canyon Creek for the North Canyon from which it issued into the Parowan Valley at Muley Point.^[1] North Canyon consisted of what is now Fremont Canyon and the valley of Fremont Wash between the Black Mountains and Hurricane Cliffs to Muley Point.

On the Mormon Road, the camp on North Canyon Creek, given the mileage recorded by Addison Pratt, was 27.5 miles south of the ford on the Beaver River.^[1] Captain Marcy's Prairie Traveler said it was in "... Little Salt Lake Valley, Good grass; no wood."^[2] That would put it near Wheatgrass, Utah just above the Little Salt Lake.

References

37.9331°N -112.855°W

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=eTW0_PLn7QcC&pg=PA321 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
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20030510102500/http://www.kancoll.org/books/marcy/mai06txt.htm Randolph Barnes Marcy, THE PRAIRIE TRAVELER. A HAND-BOOK FOR OVERLAND EXPEDITIONS. WITH MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ITINERARIES OF THE PRINCIPAL ROUTES BETWEEN THE MISSISSIPPI AND THE PACIFIC., PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; ITINERARY VI. From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California.