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Factory Butte in Wayne County, Utah, is a 6,302-foot (1,921 m) summit in the Upper Blue Hills [1] in northern Wayne County, Utah, United States, [2][3] about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Hanksville and about 14 miles (23 km) east of Capitol Reef National Park boundary. The butte was so named by early settlers who thought its outline resembled ...
The M of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, became the nation’s fourth hillside letter in 1908, and it has been illuminated every night since the early 1930s. A few years later, high schools began building hillside letters; the first one was a T for Tintic High School in Eureka, Utah, built in 1912. [7]
View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
Education in Utah has a long history that has led to a more efficient education system throughout the state. The education system started to take shape in 1847 when Mormon pioneers arrived in Utah state. The first schools were predominantly run by the Mormon community, with ecclesiastical leaders organizing the curriculum and facilities as well ...
The SITLa plots within the monument were exchanged for federal lands elsewhere in Utah, plus equivalent mineral rights and $50 million cash by an act of Congress, the Utah Schools and Lands Exchange Act of 1998, supported by Democrats and Republicans, and signed into law as Public Law 105–335 on October 31, 1998. [20]
Ute, Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu. The Southern Paiute people / ˈpaɪjuːt / are a tribe of Native Americans who have lived in the Colorado River basin of southern Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah. Bands of Southern Paiute live in scattered locations throughout this territory and have been granted federal recognition on several reservations.
Sevier County and Sanpete County make up the "Little Scandinavia" portion of Utah, where many of Utah's 20,000 Scandinavian immigrants during the 19th century settled. Pair-houses, a Scandinavian home form, are relatively more common here than elsewhere in Utah. There are 24 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Ute (/ ˈjuːt /) are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin. They had lived in sovereignty for several hundred years in the regions of present-day Utah and Colorado. In addition to their ancestral lands within Colorado and Utah, their historic hunting grounds ...