Indian Creek (Beaver River tributary)
Indian Creek, originally known as Sage Creek, is a tributary stream of the Beaver River in Beaver County, Utah. Its mouth is at its confluence with the Beaver River at an elevation of {{convert|5,499|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the Minersville Reservoir, 0.4 miles south of Adamsville. Its source is at {{coord|38|24|31|N|112|26|55|W|display=inline}}, on the northwest slope of Mount Baldy (Beaver County, Utah) at an elevation of 10,600 feet in the Tushar Mountains.{{GNIS|1441986|Indian Creek}}
History
Indian Creek was originally named Sage Creek by the Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train in 1849, that camped at a crossing point on its banks and measured its distance from there to Cove Fort. Later published in the Mormon Waybill Cove Fort was {{convert|22.25|mi|km}} north of their location on the Mormon Road. It was also {{convert|5.125|mi|km|abbr=on}} north of the ford at Greenville, Utah, that crossed what they called Beaver Creek, now known as the Beaver River.[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]. Road distances from readings of roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.
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Category:Rivers of the Great Basin
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