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State Route 7 (SR-7), also known as Southern Parkway, is a 26.1-mile (42.0 km) east-west state highway in southern Washington County in the extreme southwestern portion of the US state of Utah. It connects the southern periphery of St. George with Hurricane, while providing access to the St. George Regional Airport. [4]
St. George or Saint George [2] 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).
"Utah's Dixie" usually refers to Washington County, highlighted in red on this county map of Utah. Southwestern Utah is in the upper 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, bordering nearby Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west.
As with the surrounding area, soil and rock formations on Webb Hill are red in appearance due to the presence of iron oxide. [4] Although portions of the older section of the city of St. George (particularly the southern part near the Virgin River) lie on floodplain alluvium, much of the city is built directly upon Jurassic, Triassic, and Permian period sedimentary bedrock.
State Route 18 (SR-18) is a state highway in southern Utah, running for 51.005 miles (82.085 km) in Washington and Iron Counties from St. George to Beryl Junction. It forms part of the Legacy Loop Highway from St. George to Parowan. The highway closely follows the route of the Old Spanish Trail through Dixie National Forest.
Central is a census-designated place in north-central Washington County, Utah, United States. [1] The population was 613 at the 2010 census. Central lies along State Route 18, on the edge of the Dixie National Forest, [3] north of the city of St. George (the county seat of Washington County). [4]
Bloomington is a community in southern Washington County, Utah, United States, which now forms the southwestern part of the city of St. George.. Access to Bloomington is achieved by Interstate 15's interchange with Brigham Road (Exit 4), Southern Parkway Exit 2, or by Tonaquint Drive on the north side of the "Bloomington Circle".
The area is also known as Utah's Dixie because the Mormon pioneers who settled the St. George area came to the area to raise cotton, which was milled at the cotton mill in Washington. The population was 27,993 as of 2020. Washington is a fast-growing suburb of St. George, and is the second largest city in Washington County. [4] The city was ...