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"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.
The terrain slopes to the south and west; the lowest point in the state of Utah is located in the Beaver Dam Wash in Washington County, where it (seasonally) flows out of Utah and into Arizona, at 2,178 ft (664 m) ASL. [13] The county's highest point is Signal Peak in the Pine Valley Mountains, at 10,369 ft (3,160 m) ASL. [14]
The Thompson Wash Rock Art District, known by the Bureau of Land Management as the Sego Canyon Rock Art Interpretive Site, [1] is a rock art site in Grand County, Utah, north of the town of Thompson Springs. It contains art from three different cultures: the Fremont, the Ute, and the Barrier Canyon Style. [2]
Dixie National Forest is a United States National Forest in Utah with headquarters in Cedar City. It occupies almost two million acres (8,000 km 2) and stretches for about 170 miles (270 km) across southern Utah. The largest national forest in Utah, it straddles the divide between the Great Basin and the Colorado River.
Cottonwood Forest Wilderness is a 2,643-acre (10.7 km 2) wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 . [ 3 ] Located within the Dixie National Forest near the base of the Pine Valley Mountains , it is adjacent to the Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness , which is ...
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).
State Route 56 (SR-56) is a 61.502-mile-long (98.978 km) state highway completely within Iron County in southwestern Utah. SR-56 runs from the Utah/ Nevada border to SR-130 in Cedar City . Route description
Map of the United States with Utah highlighted Salt Lake City is the capital and largest city in Utah. Utah is a state located in the Western United States. As of 2020, there are 253 municipalities in the U.S. state of Utah. A municipality is called a town if the population is under 1,000 people, and a city if the population is over 1,000 people.