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The State of Deseret (modern pronunciation / ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ DEZ-ə-RET, [1] contemporaneously / d ɛ s iː r ɛ t / dess-ee-ret, [dubious – discuss] as recorded in the Deseret alphabet spelling 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻) [2] was a proposed state of the United States promoted by leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had founded settlements in what is ...
The proposed State of Deseret, underlaid with a modern map of the United States showing the current state boundaries. The proposed boundary of the state is outlined in black, and the state is colored in orange; boundaries are not exact. Date: 13 August 2011, 08:20 (UTC) Source: Blank_US_Map.svg; Wpdms deseret utah territory legend.png
The proposed boundary of Deseret is the dotted line, while the Utah Territory is blue, and outlined in black; boundaries are not exact. Date: 14 August 2011, 22:09 (UTC) Source: Blank_US_Map.svg; Wpdms deseret utah territory legend.png; File:1855 Colton Map of Utah and New Mexico (first edition, first state) - Geographicus - UtahNewMexico ...
The Mormon settlers had drafted a state constitution in 1849 and Deseret had become the de facto government in the Great Basin by the time of the creation of the subsequent Federal Utah Territory. [6] Following the organization of the Territory, second church president Young was inaugurated as its first territorial Governor of Utah.
Only three U.S. states (Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming) have exclusively latitude and longitude lines as boundaries. [1] The northern border with Idaho is inherited from the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, which defined the boundary between the Louisiana Purchase and New Spain. The large size of the proposed State of Deseret was
An enlargeable map of the United States after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the proposed State of Deseret on July 2, 1849. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah on ...
An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the proposed State of Deseret on July 2, 1849. An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah on September 9, 1850. An enlargeable map of the United States after Gadsden Purchase on December 30, 1853.
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range in the western United States.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.