Parowan Creek
{{Short description|Stream in the Parowan Valley of Iron County, Utah}}
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Parowan Creek, is a stream in the Parowan Valley of Iron County, Utah. It flows north through Parowan, Utah to its mouth at an elevation of {{convert|5,686|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} at the Little Salt Lake in Parowan Valley. Its source is located at an elevation of 9,980 feet at {{coord|37|40|57|N|112|51|16|W|display=inline}} in Brian Head, Utah in the Markagunt Plateau.{{GNIS|1455899|Parowan Creek}}
History
Parowan Creek was originally known by the early travelers on the Mormon Road as the 3rd Creek in the Little Salt Lake Valley, now known as the Parowan Valley, as one traveled southward in the valley. It was a camping spot on the road described in the 1851 Mormon Waybill as having: "...good feed, and wood."[https://books.google.com/books?id=eTW0_PLn7QcC&pg=PA321 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], LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, 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 Iron County, Utah
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