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Utah County, Utah
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Utah County is a county in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 516,564, the county seat and largest city is Provo, which is the third-largest city in the state. The county was created in 1850 and named for the Spanish name for the Ute Indians, Utah County is part of the Provo-Orem, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of Utah was located in Utah County, Utah County is one of seven counties in the United States to share the same name as the state it is located in. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 2,144 square miles. Utah Valley lies at the center of the county, lined by the mountains of the Wasatch Range on the east, Utah Lake occupies a large part of the valley. The elevation ranges from 4,487 feet above sea level at the lake to 11,928 feet at the peak of Mount Nebo, the population density was 259 people per square mile. There were 148,350 housing units, at a density of 74 per square mile. 10. 8% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,11. 6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4. 4% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.57, and the family size was 3.88. In the county, the population was out with 35. 2% under the age of 18,15. 8% from 18 to 24, 28% from 25 to 44,14. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 24.6 years, for every 100 females there were 100.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.7 males, at the 2000 census, the median income for a household in the county was $45,833, and the median income for a family was $50,196. Males had an income of $37,878 versus $22,656 for females. The per capita income for the county was $15,557, about 6. 80% of families and 12. 00% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8. 40% of those under age 18 and 4. 80% of those age 65 or over. Utah County commissioners are elected at-large, as of 2015, the three county commissioners are William C. Lee, Greg Graves, and Larry Ellertson, commissioners Lee and Graves were elected in 2014, and the seat held by Commissioner Ellertson is up for election in 2016. Other elected officials include the county sheriff, the county clerk, Utah Countys growth was recognized by the state legislature in 2011 by adding one new state Senate seat and two House district seats
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Millard County, Utah
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Millard County is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,503 and its county seat is Fillmore, and the largest city is Delta. The county was created in 1851, the county and its seat were named for Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 6,828 square miles. It is the third-largest county in Utah by area, the Sevier Desert covers much of Millard County, being the seafloor of ancient Lake Bonneville. Near the center of the county lies Sevier Lake, a dry remnant of Lake Bonneville. Mountains rim the area, some of which harbor beautiful forests, contrasting with the deserts below, especially the Pahvant Mountains, Fillmore and other farming communities lie at the base of the Pahvant Mountains. Delta sits several miles from the banks of the Sevier River in the middle of the basin, about 17 miles southwest of Delta, near Black Rocks northwest perimeter is a feature named the Great Stone Face, which protrudes about four stories above the general elevation. For many years locals have claimed that this formation, when viewed at the correct angle. At ground level, within view of the Great Stone Face, is a large, notch Peak is located about 50 miles to the west of Delta. The skyline appears to have a notch out of it when viewed from Delta. Little Sahara Recreation Area is about 25 miles north of Delta and it is a very popular area for ATV riders. As of the census of 2000, there were 12,405 people,3,840 households, the population density was 2 people per square mile. There were 4,522 housing units at a density of 1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 93. 94% White,0. 10% Black or African American,1. 31% Native American,0. 48% Asian,0. 20% Pacific Islander,2. 76% from other races, and 1. 21% from two or more races. 7. 18% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race, by 200586. 7% of Millard Countys population was non-Hispanic whites. The proportion of African Americans had doubled to 0. 2%, Native Americans were now 1. 5% of the countys population. Asians had fallen to only 0. 4% of the population,11. 0% of the population was Latino, just above the 10. 9% for Utah as a whole
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Emery County, Utah
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Emery County is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,976 and its county seat is Castle Dale, and the largest city is Huntington. The county was named for George W. Emery, governor of the Utah Territory in 1875. D, Ute Indians also occupied sites in Castle Valley, The first white men who came to Castle Valley were undoubtedly Spanish Traders and Explorers. These explorers came to the area sometime after Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and these Spanish traders and explorers eventually found a more southerly route than Escalante had traveled, which became known as the Spanish Trail. It went on the South side of Cedar Mountain, across Buckhorn Flat, passed the Red Seeps to Huntington Creek, crossing about a mile below where the present bridge crosses and it crossed the Ferron Creek where Molen now stands. It passed through the Rochester Flats about one mile east of present-day Moore and it then went over Salina Canyon. It then turned south and went through Parowan, Mountain Meadows, Las Vegas, Barstow California and they had to enter Castle Valley in order to avoid the straight walled canyons of the San Juan, Colorado, Green, Dirty Devil, and San Rafael Rivers. Eventually, after years of exploring, the best route became the Spanish Trail. The principal trade which developed between Santa Fe and the Utah region was slavery, the trading of Indian women and children to the Spanish, although illegal, was the purpose of the Spanish coming into the area which was to become Utah. The other use of the trail was to herd livestock, mostly horses, since the slave trade was illegal, the traders kept neither records of their activities nor the extent of their travels and explorations. Travelers along the Old Spanish Trail gave Castle Valley its names, the first Americans to come to Castle Valley were fur trappers. Here they met a Spanish caravan of forty or fifty people going to California and they joined the caravan and traveled through Castle Valley in 1809 and went on to California. In 1830, William Wilfskill came to Castle Valley along the Spanish Trail and he and his party were fur trappers but found little in the area to keep them here. Following the trappers in the late 1840s and early 1850s, government explorers came to the valley to find routes across the continent, kit Carson was the first of these famous men. He was looking for a route for the mail to be carried overland from St. Louis to California. Carson carried through Castle Valley to the nation the news of gold being found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848, in 1853 John W. Gunnison, an Army Topographical Engineer came through Castle Valley for a route for the Pacific Railroad. He was commissioned for this assignment by Jefferson Davis Secretary of War and he left very detailed descriptions of his travels and carefully laid out his route through Castle Valley. Gunnisons route first met the Spanish Trail at the Green River crossing, the third government explorer was John C
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Grand County, Utah
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Grand County is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,225 and its county seat and largest city is Moab. The county was named for the Colorado River, which at the time of statehood was known as the Grand River and it is west from the Colorado state line. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 3,684 square miles. The Green River forms the boundary and Colorado lies on the eastern boundary. The Colorado River flows through the southeast corner, deserts, cliffs and plateaus make up the scenery, with few settlements apart from the city of Moab, a Colorado River oasis. Arches National Park lies in the part of the county. Also, the northernmost extension of Canyonlands National Park lies in the southwest corner of the county, the population density was 2 people per square mile. There were 4,062 housing units at a density of 1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 92. 65% White,0. 25% Black or African American,3. 85% Native American,0. 22% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,1. 66% from other races, and 1. 32% from two or more races. 5. 55% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,29. 50% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the family size was 3.06. In the county, the population was out with 26. 90% under the age of 18,8. 20% from 18 to 24,27. 90% from 25 to 44,24. 50% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 96.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.10 males, the median income for a household in the county was $32,387, and the median income for a family was $39,095. Males had an income of $31,000 versus $21,769 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,356, about 10. 90% of families and 14. 80% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21. 20% of those under age 18 and 8. 40% of those age 65 or over. While most of Utah is deeply Republican, Grand County has become a county in recent years
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San Juan County, Utah
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San Juan County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,746 and its county seat is Monticello, while its most populous city is Blanding. The county was named by the Utah State Legislature for the San Juan River, San Juan County borders Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico at the Four Corners. San Juan County was organized in 1880, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 7,933 square miles, of which 7,820 square miles is land and 113 square miles is water. It is the largest county by area in Utah, the countys western and southern boundaries lie deep within gorges carved by the Colorado and San Juan Rivers. Tributary canyons, cutting through layers of the surrounding deserts, have carved the land up with chasms, cliffs. In the center of the county are Cedar Mesa, Comb Wash, Natural Bridges, canyonlands National Park is primarily within the county borders. The Eastern side of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area / Lake Powell in also in San Juan County, rising above all, the Blue Mountains reach to nearly 12,000 feet and the La Sal Mountains rise to 13,000 feet. Both ranges are covered with lush forests vividly contrasting with the scenery below, the elevation change within the county is from near 13,000 feet in the La Sal Mountains to 3,000 feet at Lake Powell, an elevation change of 10,000 feet. The county is cut by deep and spectacular canyons, red rock and mountain meadows, desert, and evergreen forest. The towns run primarily on an axis along U. S. Route 191. The only operating Uranium Processing plant in the United States operates in the town of Blanding, San Juan County is home to numerous oil and gas fields that produce primarily from the Desert Creek and Ismay Formations. San Juan County is bordered by more counties than any county in the United States. San Juan County in Utah and New Mexico are two of twenty-two counties or parishes in the United States with the name to border each other across state lines. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 50. 4% Native American,45. 8% white,0. 3% Asian,0. 2% African American and 2. 3% reporting two or more races. 4. 4% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race, the 2000 census there were 14,413 people,4,089 households and 3,234 families residing in the county. The population density was 2 people per square mile, there were 5,449 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile. 3. 75% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,18. 70% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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Washington County, Utah
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Washington County is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 138,115 and its county seat and largest city is St. George. The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1856 and it was named for the first President of the United States, George Washington. Washington County experienced the fifth highest job-growth rate in the United States at one point, Washington County comprises the St. George, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area. The earliest settlement was Fort Harmony in 1852, Santa Clara was established in 1854 as a mission to the natives that lived on the Santa Clara River. Hamblin and Pinto were settled along the Los Angeles - Salt Lake Road in 1856, next came the settlements established as colonies to grow cotton, before the beginning of the American Civil War. They were located along the Virgin River, in the warmer climate below the Great Basin, the first were Virgin and Washington in 1857. Heberville, Pintura and Toquerville followed in 1858, Grafton, Harrisburg, adventure in 1860, and Duncans Retreat, Northrop, Shonesburg and St. George in 1861. Shoal Creek later called Hebron, was a community established in 1862 in the west of the county. Leeds was settled in 1867, and Silver Reef was a mining town begun in 1875 and abandoned by 1891 due to the collapse in silver prices. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 2,430 square miles. The elevation varies from 2,178 to 10,365 feet in elevation, the lowest point in the state of Utah is located in the Beaver Dam Wash in Washington County, where it flows out of Utah and into Arizona. Washington County is made up of three geographic areas, the Colorado Plateau in the east-northeast, the Great Basin in the northwest. Most of the population is centered in the middle-south of the county near the border with Arizona, most national shopping, dining, and hospitality chains are located here, along with several local businesses. The climate of this section of the county is the driest, the terrain is also among the lowest in Washington County, making for a particularly hot and dry climate when compared to the rest of the county. Most homes are located in subdivisions, and a large urban sprawl exists. In Downtown St. George, several restaurants and stores call this area home. To combat the sprawl, growth and promotion is being projected inward to the area of the St. George
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Utah
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Utah is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U. S. on January 4,1896, Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million, approximately 80% of whom live along the Wasatch Front, Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast, approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS, which greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Churchs world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City, Utah is the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, in 2013, the U. S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median income and the least income inequality of any U. S. state. A2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, the name Utah is derived from the name of the Ute tribe. It means people of the mountains in the Ute language, according to other sources Utah is derived from the Apache name Yudah which means Tall. These Native American tribes are subgroups of the Ute-Aztec Native American ethnicity and were sedentary, the Ancestral Pueblo people built their homes through excavations in mountains, and the Fremont people built houses of straw before disappearing from the region around the 15th century. Another group of Native Americans, the Navajo, settled in the region around the 18th century, in the mid-18th century, other Uto-Aztecan tribes, including the Goshute, the Paiute, the Shoshone, and the Ute people, also settled in the region. These five groups were present when the first European explorers arrived, the southern Utah region was explored by the Spanish in 1540, led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, while looking for the legendary Cíbola. A group led by two Catholic priests—sometimes called the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition—left Santa Fe in 1776, hoping to find a route to the coast of California, the expedition traveled as far north as Utah Lake and encountered the native residents. The Spanish made further explorations in the region, but were not interested in colonizing the area because of its desert nature, in 1821, the year Mexico achieved its independence from Spain, the region became known as part of its territory of Alta California. European trappers and fur traders explored some areas of Utah in the early 19th century from Canada, the city of Provo, Utah was named for one, Étienne Provost, who visited the area in 1825. The city of Ogden, Utah was named after Peter Skene Ogden, in late 1824, Jim Bridger became the first known English-speaking person to sight the Great Salt Lake. Due to the salinity of its waters, Bridger thought he had found the Pacific Ocean
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Indian reservation
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Each of the 326 Indian reservations in the United States are associated with a particular Nation. Not all of the countrys 567 recognized tribes have a reservation—some tribes have more than one reservation, some share reservations and this jumble of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political, and legal difficulties. The collective geographical area of all reservations is 56,200,000 acres, while most reservations are small compared to US states, there are 12 Indian reservations larger than the state of Rhode Island. The largest reservation, the Navajo Nation Reservation, is similar in size to West Virginia, Reservations are unevenly distributed throughout the country, the majority are west of the Mississippi River and occupy lands that were first reserved by treaty or granted from the public domain. Because tribes possess tribal sovereignty, even though it is limited and these laws can permit legal casinos on reservations, for example, which attract tourists. The tribal council, not the local or federal government, generally has jurisdiction over reservations, different reservations have different systems of government, which may or may not replicate the forms of government found outside the reservation. Most Native American reservations were established by the government, a limited number, mainly in the East. The name reservation comes from the conception of the Native American tribes as independent sovereigns at the time the U. S, the term remained in use even after the federal government began to forcibly relocate tribes to parcels of land to which they had no historical connection. A majority of Native Americans and Alaska Natives live somewhere other than the reservations, often in big cities such as Phoenix. In 2012, there were over 2.5 million Native Americans with about 1 million living on reservations, from the beginning of the European colonization of the Americas, Europeans often removed native peoples from lands they wished to occupy. The means varied, including voluntary moves based on agreement, treaties made under considerable duress, forceful ejection. The removal caused many problems such as tribes losing means of livelihood by being subjected to an area, farmers having inadmissible land for agriculture. In 1764 the “Plan for the Future Management of Indian Affairs” was proposed by the Board of Trade, additionally, this plan dictated that the Indians would be properly consulted when ascertaining and defining the boundaries of colonial settlement. For much of North America, the American Revolution was more of a battle against the Indians than a war against the British, the treaty was seen by Americans as a confirmation of their conquest of Indian land. The private contracts that once characterized the sale of Indian land to various individuals and this protocol was adopted by the United States Government after the America Revolution. On March 11,1824, John C. Calhoun founded the Office of Indian Affairs as a division of the United States Department of War, to solve the land problem with 38 treaties with American Indian tribes. The passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 marked the systematization of a US federal government policy of forcibly moving Native populations away from European-populated areas, some of the lands these tribes were given to inhabit following the removals eventually became Indian Reservations. In 1851, the United States Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which authorized the creation of Indian reservations in modern-day Oklahoma, relations between settlers and natives had grown increasingly worse as the settlers encroached on territory and natural resources in the West
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Wasatch Front
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The Wasatch Front /ˈwɑːsætʃ/ is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U. S. state of Utah. It consists of a chain of cities and towns stretched along the Wasatch Range from approximately Nephi in the south to Brigham City in the north. Roughly 80% of Utahs population resides in this region, which contains the cities of Salt Lake City, Provo, West Valley City, West Jordan, Layton. The Wasatch Front is long and narrow, to the east, the Wasatch Mountains rise abruptly several thousand feet above the valley floors, climbing to their highest elevation of 11,928 feet at Mount Nebo. The combined population of the five Wasatch Front counties totals 2,125,322, according to the 2008 Census Estimate. Though most residents of the area live between Ogden and Provo, which includes Salt Lake proper, the fullest built-out extent of the Wasatch Front is 120 miles long and an average of 5 miles wide. Along its length, the Wasatch Front never exceeds a width of approximately 18 miles because of the barriers of lakes. Several downtown and commercial districts encompass the Wasatch Front, the largest is Salt Lake City at the middle of the urban area. Utah Valley and the Ogden-Clearfield region are the major population centers. Nearly all of the cities within the region are connected by suburban development. The First Transcontinental Railroad was constructed between 1863 and 1869, the tracks reaching Ogden on March 27,1869. Trains heading east from Ogden must negotiate the highest reaches of eastern Utah, travelling through Weber and Echo Canyons and over the Wasatch Pass at an elevation of 6,792 feet. The primary modes of transport for the area are Interstate 15 and U. S. Route 89, other interstates and highways provide transportation routes to local areas within the front. S. Route 189 through Provo, and U. S. Route 6 in southern Utah County, the Utah Transit Authority provides bus and light rail service to most of the urban areas within the front. Other portions of Legacy Parkway and the Mountain View Corridor are planned or under construction to accommodate traffic between Ogden and Provo. The California Zephyr of Amtrak is the rail transport leading in and out of the Front, having a station in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City International Airport serves as the airport for the region. Because of the barriers to the east and west, much of the land along the Wasatch Front has been developed
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Beaver
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The beaver is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent. Castor includes two extant species, the North American beaver and Eurasian beaver, Beavers are known for building dams, canals, and lodges. They are the second-largest rodent in the world and their colonies create one or more dams to provide still, deep water to protect against predators, and to float food and building material. The North American beaver population was more than 60 million. Beavers, along with pocket gophers and kangaroo rats, are castorimorph rodents, Beavers are known for their natural trait of building dams on rivers and streams, and building their homes in the resulting pond. Beavers also build canals to float building materials that are difficult to haul over land and they use powerful front teeth to cut trees and other plants that they use both for building and for food. In the absence of existing ponds, beavers must construct dams before building their lodges, first they place vertical poles, then fill between the poles with a crisscross of horizontally placed branches. They fill in the gaps between the branches with a combination of weeds and mud until the dam impounds sufficient water to surround the lodge and this serves as a warning to beavers in the area. Once a beaver has sounded the alarm, nearby beavers will dive, Beavers are slow on land, but are good swimmers, and can stay under water for as long as 15 minutes. Beavers are herbivores, and prefer the wood of quaking aspen, cottonwood, willow, alder, birch, maple and they also eat sedges, pondweed, and water lilies. Beavers do not hibernate, but store sticks and logs in a pile in their ponds, some of the pile is generally above water and accumulates snow in the winter. This insulation of snow often keeps the water freezing in and around the food pile. Beavers have webbed hind-feet, and a broad, scaly tail and they have poor eyesight, but keen senses of hearing, smell, and touch. A beavers teeth grow continuously so that they not be worn down by chewing on wood. Their four incisors are composed of hard orange enamel on the front, the chisel-like ends of incisors are maintained by their self-sharpening wear pattern. The enamel in a beavers incisors contains iron and is resistant to acid than enamel in the teeth of other mammals. Beavers continue to grow throughout their lives, adult specimens weighing over 25 kg are not uncommon. Females are as large as or larger than males of the same age, Beavers live up to 24 years of age in the wild
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