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Box Elder Creek is a tributary that joins the South Platte River near Kersey, Colorado. It rises in Elbert County, Colorado. The creek flows through Elbert, Arapahoe, Adams, and Weld counties. It passes near Denver International Airport. It was the site of the Hungate massacre which had a family of four murdered. [2]
The Hungate massacre involved the murder of the family of Nathan Hungate along Running Creek (Box Elder Creek near present-day Elizabeth, Colorado) on June 11, 1864. [1] [2] It was a precipitating factor leading to the Sand Creek massacre of November 29, 1864.
Box Elder High School Gymnasium: Box Elder High School Gymnasium: April 1, 1985 (#85000796) August 27, 2013: 18 N. 400 East: Brigham City: Box Elder School District demolished this building in 2011. 3
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The first recorded white men were Peter Skene Ogden's large party of trappers that camped on Deep Creek on December 27, 1828. [2] Some of the discharged members of the Mormon Battalion, on their way home from California to Salt Lake City on September 18, 1848, camped on Deep Creek and also in a cave 1 mile (1.6 km) east called Hollow Rock.
Box Elder Peak is located 21 miles (34 km) southeast of downtown Salt Lake City in the Lone Peak Wilderness, on land managed by Wasatch–Cache National Forest. [4] The peak is set in the Wasatch Range which is a subset of the Rocky Mountains. The mountain is composed of limestone, quartzite, and shale. [2]
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Box Elder is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hill County in the U.S. state of Montana.The population was 87 at the 2010 census. [3] The population was 794 at the 2000 census, but before 2010 the Box Elder CDP was split into the current much-smaller Box Elder CDP, while most of the former CDP area went into the new Rocky Boy West CDP.