Pavant Range

Pavant Range
Pavant Range
	Pavant Range in Utah
Highest point
Peak	Mine Camp Peak(Pavant Range; center, west; (Millard County))
Coordinates	38°52′27″N112°15′13″W / 38.87413°N 112.25355°W
Dimensions
Length	50 mi (80 km)SSW x NNE
Width	15 mi (24 km)E-W
Geography
Country	United States
State	Utah
Region	Great Basin Desert, southeast
Counties	Millard and Sevier
Cities	Fillmore, UT, Richfield, UT &; Maple Grove, UT
Range coordinates	38°54′N112°13′W / 38.900°N 112.217°W Coordinates: 38°54′N112°13′W / 38.900°N 112.217°W
Borders on	Canyon Mountains-NNW; Sevier Desert-W & NW; Tushar Mountains-S; Valley Mountains-(minor range)-NE; Sevier Plateau-E & SE

Last updated May 01, 2019

The Pavant Range (also Pahvant) is a mountain range in central Utah east of Fillmore.^[1] The range is named for the Pahvant tribe, a branch of the Ute people. The tallest peak is Mine Camp Peak at 10,222 feet (3,116 m).^[1] Most of the land in the Pavant range is part of Fishlake National Forest.

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, 30th-most-populous, and 11th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million according to the Census estimate for July 1, 2016. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which contains approximately 2.5 million people; and Washington County in Southern Utah, with over 160,000 residents. 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.

Fillmore is a city in Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,253 at the 2000 United States Census. It is the county seat of Millard County. It is named for the thirteenth US President Millard Fillmore, who was in office when Millard County was created by the Utah Territorial legislature.

Pahvant was a band of Ute people that lived in present-day Utah. Called the "Water People", they fished and hunted waterfowl. They were also farmers and hunter-gatherers. In the 18th century they were known to be friendly and attentive, but after a chief's father was killed by emigrating white settlers, a group of Pahvant Utes killed John Williams Gunnison and seven of his men during his exploration of the area. The bodies of water of their homeland were dried up after Mormons had diverted the water for irrigation. Having intermarried with the Paiutes, they were absorbed into the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and relocated to reservations.

The Sevier River is a 385-mile (620 km)-long river in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah in the United States. Originating west of Bryce Canyon National Park, the river flows north through a chain of high farming valleys and steep canyons along the west side of the Sevier Plateau, before turning southwest and terminating in the endorheic basin of Sevier Lake in the Sevier Desert. It is used extensively for irrigation along its course, with the consequence that Sevier Lake is usually dry.

The Pavant Range merges into the Tushar Mountains on the south.

The Tushar Mountains are the third highest mountain range in Utah after the Uinta Mountains and the La Sal Range. Located in the Fishlake National Forest, Delano Peak, 12,174 ft NAVD 88, is the highest point in both Beaver and Piute counties and has a prominence of 4,689 ft. Delano Peak is named for Columbus Delano (1809–1896), Secretary of the Interior during the Grant administration. The Tushars receive an ample amount of snow annually even though they are situated within the rainshadow of the Sierra Mountain Range located in California and the Snake Range located in Nevada.

Transportation

Interstate 15 crosses the extreme north end of the range at Scipio pass, near Scipio.^[3] Interstate 70 crosses at a pass between the Pavant Range and the Tushar Mountains to the south.^[2]

Interstate 15 (I-15) runs north–south in the U.S. state of Utah through the southwestern and central portions of the state, passing through many of the population centers of the state, including St. George, Provo, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, the latter three being part of the urban area known as the Wasatch Front. It is the primary north–south highway in Utah, as the majority of the state's population lives along its corridor. The only Metropolitan Statistical Area in Utah not connected by I-15 is the Logan Utah-Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1998, the Utah Legislature designated the entire length within Utah as the Veterans Memorial Highway.

Scipio is a town on the eastern edge of Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 290 at the 2000 census.

Interstate 70 (I-70) is a mainline route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States connecting Utah and Maryland. The Utah section runs east–west for approximately 232 miles (373 km) across the central part of the state. Richfield is the largest Utah city served by the freeway, which does not serve or connect any urban areas in the state. The freeway was built as part of a system of highways connecting Los Angeles and the northeastern United States. I-70 was the second attempt to connect southern California to the east coast of the United States via central Utah, the first being a failed attempt to construct a transcontinental railroad. Parts of that effort were re-used in the laying out of the route of I-70.

Meteorite

Iron meteorite fragments with a mass of 240 grams (8.5 oz) named the Salina meteorite were found in the Pavant Range in 1908.^[4]

Iron meteorites are meteorites that consist overwhelmingly of an iron–nickel alloy known as meteoric iron that usually consists of two mineral phases: kamacite and taenite. Iron meteorites originate from cores of planetesimals.

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References

1 2 Utah Road and Recreation Atlas (Map). 1:250000. Benchmark Maps. 2002. p. 66. ISBN 0-929591-74-7.
1 2 Richfield, Utah, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
↑ Delta, Utah, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1989
↑ William F. Case. "Have meteorites or meteorite craters been found in Utah?". Utah Geological Survey - Utah Division of Natural Resources.

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[benchmark-1] 1 2 Utah Road and Recreation Atlas (Map). 1:250000. Benchmark Maps. 2002. p. 66. ISBN 0-929591-74-7.

[Richfield-2] 1 2 Richfield, Utah, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980

[3] Delta, Utah, 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1989

[UGS-4] William F. Case. "Have meteorites or meteorite craters been found in Utah?". Utah Geological Survey - Utah Division of Natural Resources.