Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Website. www .santaclarautah .gov. Santa Clara is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States and is a part of the St. George Metropolitan Area. The population was 7,553 at the 2020 census, up from 6,003 at the 2010 census, and 4,630 at the 2000 census. The city is a western suburb of St. George.
Washington County, Utah. / 37.28; -113.52. Washington County is a county in the southwestern corner of Utah, United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 180,279, [2] making it the fifth-most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is St. George. [1] [3] The county was created in 1852 and ...
St. George, Utah. / 37.10417°N 113.58417°W / 37.10417; -113.58417. St. George is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Utah, United States. Located in southwestern Utah on the Arizona border, it is the principal city of the St. George Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The city lies in the northeasternmost part of the ...
Utah's Dixie. "Utah's Dixie" usually refers to Washington County, highlighted in red on this county map of Utah. Southwestern Utah is in the Colorado River Basin. Dixie is a nickname for the populated, lower-elevation area of south-central Washington County, the southwest corner of the State of Utah. The area lies in the northeastern Mojave ...
Pine Valley is a census-designated place in north-central Washington County, Utah, United States that lies approximately 45 minutes north of the county seat, St. George. It is located at the head of the Santa Clara River in the Pine Valley Mountains, and was settled in 1859. The population was 186 at the 2010 census .
The Santa Clara River is a 52-mile-long (84 km) [3] river whose three forks join above Pine Valley in the Pine Valley Mountains in Washington County, Utah, United States. It flows west, then south, then briefly southeast before joining the Virgin River just south of downtown St. George. It is southern Utah's largest tributary to the Virgin River.
A few years later, the first Paiute reservation was established in 1891 on the Santa Clara River, west of St. George, Utah. It did not receive water rights so they were forced to abandon farming. The reservation had a population of 194 that year. There were 154 Shivwits in 1906.
During the later 1850s, the settlers began growing cotton and other temperate cash crops in the area of Santa Clara, Utah. The Paiute population was largely displaced and also declined due to diseases brought by the new settlers.