Chalk Creek (Millard County, Utah)

Chalk Creek is a stream in Millard County, Utah, United States.[1]

Description

It was originally known as 3rd Creek south of Sevier River to the early travelers on the Mormon Road.[2][3] Its mouth is at the endorheic basin called The Sink[4] in the Pahvant Valley[5] at an elevation of 4,639 feet (1,414 m). Its source is located at the confluence of North Fork Chalk Creek[6] with South Fork Chalk Creek,[7] at an elevation of 5,482 feet (1,671 m), at 38°56′59″N 112°16′06″W in the Pahvant Range. Fillmore is 3 miles (4.8 km) below the source of Chalk Creek along the south bank of the stream.[1]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chalk Creek
  2. 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 a roadometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.
  3. 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. from the Kansas Collection website accessed 05/22/2015
  4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: The Sink
  5. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pahvant Valley
  6. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: North Fork Chalk Creek
  7. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: South Fork Chalk Creek

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