Fremont River (Utah)

Fremont River is 95-mile (153 km) long river in southeastern Utah, United States that flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir, which is located on the Wasatch Plateau near Fish Lake, southeast through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the Dirty Devil River, a tributary of the Colorado River.[2][3][4][5]

Fremont River
Looking south along the Fremont River near Caineville, February 2005
Location of the mouth of the Fremont River in Utah
Etymology	John C. Frémont
Location
Country	United States
State	Utah
Region	Sevier and Wayne counties
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Johnson Valley Reservoir
• coordinates	38°36′32″N111°37′56″W
• elevation	8,819 ft (2,688 m)
Mouth	Dirty Devil River
• location	near Hanksville
• coordinates	38°24′10″N110°41′35″W
• elevation	4,250 ft (1,300 m)
Length	95 mi (153 km)
Basin size	751 sq mi (1,950 km2)
Discharge
• location	Bicknell[1]
• average	83.9 cu ft/s (2.38 m3/s)[1]
• minimum	18 cu ft/s (0.51 m3/s)
• maximum	1,360 cu ft/s (39 m3/s)

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The Johnson Valley Reservoir is fed by Sevenmile Creek (from the north) and Lake Creek (from the southwest). The Fremont River passes through Fremont, Loa, Lyman, Bicknell, Teasdale, and Torrey and provides year-round irrigation for the agricultural lands of Rabbit Valley and Caineville. Then it heads through Hanksville and afterwards to its mouth.

The Fremont River has a drainage area of 751 square miles (1,950 km²) fed by spring snowmelt off Thousand Lake Mountain, Boulder Mountain, and the northern Henry Mountains. The river is named after John Charles Fremont.[4] It gives its name to the Fremont culture, a Precolumbianarchaeological culture.

Flow (ft^3/s), by month (1977–2003), at Bicknell gauging station:[1]

• List of Utah rivers
• List of tributaries of the Colorado River

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