Peteetneet Creek

Peteetneet Creek is a stream in Payson Canyon, south of Payson, Utah, United States.

The Grotto Falls, just below the source of the Peteetneet Creek in Payson Canyon, May 2016

Description

The creek was named after the Timpanogos Chief Peteetneet who lived near it. Its source is located at 39°56′52″N 111°40′37″W, the confluence of Shram Creek and an unnamed creek that flows through the Frank Young Canyon.[1] Rather than flow north into Utah Lake, the creek ends shortly after entering Payson (just south of the intersection of South 300 East and East 600 South).[1] However, older maps indicate that it previously ran a bit further north to the north side of East 200 South (north of the Memorial Park).[2]

History

Peteetneet Creek was a good camping spot on the Mormon Road, a Mormon pioneer and 49er wagon route between Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles, California.[3] The Latter-day Saints first settled in Payson in 1850.[4] After improvements were made to the Mormon Road wagon route in 1855, it had become what was known as the Los Angeles - Salt Lake Road. This was a wagon freight route used each year from late fall through winter into early spring, between Southern California and Utah, isolated by the winter snows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains from San Francisco and by the Rocky Mountains from the rest of the United States to the east. This route remained the only winter season route to the outside world, until the arrival of the railroad in Utah in the late 1860s.[5]^{:2, 172–178}

See also

• List of rivers of Utah

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Peteetneet Creek
2. MyTopo Maps - Payson, UT, United States (Map). Trimble Navigation, Ltd. Retrieved 18 Jan 2018.
3. Randolph Barnes Marcy, The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions, PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, 1859; LIST OF ITINERARIES; ITINERARY VI.--From Great Salt Lake City to Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
4. Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 644
5. Edward Leo Lyman, Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels, University of Nevada Press, 2008.

External links

Media related to Peteetneet Creek at Wikimedia Commons