Sevier River Crossing (Mormon Road)

Sevier River Crossing of the Mormon Road was located above the confluence of the Sevier River with Chicken Creek, in Mills Valley, Juab County, Utah. The Crossing was located 120 miles from Salt Lake City, 24.875 miles south of Nephi and 25.5 miles north of Holden, on the Mormon wagon road to Los Angeles.[1][2]

The crossing point was located a little below the old crossing of U.S. Route 91. I-15 now crosses at the same place as U.S. Route 91 did.[3]

  1. ^ "The distance from Sevier river, at the crossing of the Mormon road to Salt lake, is 120 miles,..." from Joseph Henry, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Reports of Explorations and Surveys to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, United States War Department, Beverley Tucker, Printer, Washington, 1855, p.73
  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 to Salt Creek (later the site of Nephi) and to Cedar Creek, (later the site of Holden), from readings of rodeometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.
  3. ^ Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners, 1954, p.64, note 20