Peteetneet Creek
{{Short description|Stream in Utah County, Utah}}
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Peteetneet Creek is a stream in Payson Canyon, south of Payson, Utah, United States.
Description
The creek was named after the Timpanogos Chief Peteetneet who lived near it. Its source is located at {{coord|39|56|52|N|111|40|37|W|display=inline}}, the confluence of Shram Creek and an unnamed creek that flows through the Frank Young Canyon.{{gnis|1444295|Peteetneet Creek}} Rather than flow north into Utah Lake, the creek ends shortly after entering Payson (just south of the intersection of South 300 East and East 600 South). However, older maps indicate that it previously ran a bit further north to the north side of East 200 South (north of the Memorial Park).{{cite map|url=http://www.mytopo.com/maps/?lat=40.0378&lon=-111.7268&z=16|title=MyTopo Maps - Payson, UT, United States |publisher=Trimble Navigation, Ltd.|accessdate=18 Jan 2018}}
History
Peteetneet Creek was a good camping spot on the Mormon Road, a Mormon pioneer and 49er wagon route between Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, California.[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, PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; LIST OF ITINERARIES; ITINERARY VI.--From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California] The Latter-day Saints first settled in Payson in 1850.Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 644 After improvements were made to the Mormon Road wagon route in 1855, it had become what was known as the Los Angeles - Salt Lake Road. This was a wagon freight route used each year from late fall through winter into early spring, between Southern California and Utah, isolated by the winter snows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains from San Francisco and by the Rocky Mountains from the rest of the United States to the east. This route remained the only winter season route to the outside world until the railroad arrived in Utah in the late 1860s.Edward Leo Lyman, Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, University of Nevada Press, 2008.{{rp|2, 172–178}}
See also
References
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External links
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