Meadow Creek (Millard County)

Meadow Creek is a stream in Millard County, Utah. It was originally known as 4th Creek south of Sevier River to the early travelers on the Mormon Road.[1][2] Its mouth is located at an elevation of 4,842 feet or 1,476 meters. Its source is located an elevation of 9,760 feet, at 38°51′50″N 112°14′16″W / 38.86389°N 112.23778°W / 38.86389; -112.23778 near the summit of White Pine Peak in the Pahvant Range. Meadow is located north of the mouth of the stream.[3]

  1. ^ 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.]
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Meadow Creek