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Alex Beard Hill
Amalga - a small agricultural
community three miles west of Smithfield. It was first settled in the
1860s by one family who lived on a sagebrush plain not far from Bear
River. In time it became part of a large area known initially as Alto
and in the 1890s was organized into the Alto School District. With the
construction of the Amalgamated Sugar Company factory (sugar beet
processor), the name was changed to reflect this short-lived business
that only operated from 1914 or 1915 through as least 1923 (some having
the closing of this factory in 1919). An old map showing the Utah-Idaho
Central Railroad (UIC) in northern Cache County has a "Quinney Sugar
Factory" near Bear River west of Smithfield, and an Ogden newspaper in a
November 1923 article cited "The Amalgamated Sugar company factory at
Smithfield is now operating at capacity." By 1923 newspapers in Ogden
and Salt Lake City started using the name "Amalga" for the settlement on
Bear River west of Smithfield. Today it is the location for the Cache
Valley Cheese plant which in 1942 purchased and retooled the old sugar
factory and become the largest Swiss cheese factory in the world.
Ant Valley
Avon
- the southernmost settlement in Cache County and about two-and-a-half
miles south of present day Paradise. The area was first occupied as the
initial site for Paradise and occupied from 1859 to 1868 when it was
relocated, due to troubles with the Indians. The new Paradise was placed
in a more defensible location a few miles to the north. In the 1880s the
first site of Paradise was again occupied as settlers placed their homes
and land claims in a scattered condition along the east and south forks
of Paradise Creek (known locally as the Muddy and later as Little Bear
River). When there were enough settlers to warrant a location name, it
came to have two names'"Old Paradise" and Avon, named after William
Shakespeare's birthplace in England (Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire,
England). The economic base was farming and grazing with some
utilization of the timber resources of the area and some mining in the
nearby mountains. There was a limited amount of arable land for farming
but extensive areas for grazing among the extensive mountains and
canyons. There was much wildlife in the mountains with bears being
mentioned the most (1895 report saying "there are lots of bears around
in that section of the country."). The new settlers soon built a
structure in which church meetings, social gatherings and school was
held. The school was at first under the direction of the Mineral Point
School District. The LDS membership was organized into the Avon Ward on
July 5, 1891, and contained seventeen families with ninety-nine persons.
The nearest newspaper at Logan published the declaration: "A new village
has been added to Cache County, named Avon. The location of this place
is a little over two miles south of Paradise, where Old Paradise used to
be. . . ." Then in short order the area was designed "Avon Road
District" with a road supervisor and in the fall of 1892 the county
court changed the name of the Mineral Point School District to that of
Avon School District. In January of 1895 the county court dissolved the
La Plata School and Road District, and added both to the "Avon School
District as thus increased, has been made a precinct." Achieving this
level of development, they now had a justice of the peace and a
constable. Seeing the need for a better school building at Avon, the
local school district imposed a tax on its citizens for that purpose,
and by December of 1895 the local newspaper announced that Avon was one
of five Cache communities with a new school building of the "latest
modern design and of the best material." Still, Avon was small and not
shown on the 1895 map of Utah and Cache County. Avon was thereafter
shown on a 1916 map and one for 1922. In the early period Avon
experienced the ups and downs of mining activities in the nearby
mountains, and even after the downturn there were rumors and reports of
expected mineral wealth. The area longed for another railroad, hoping
for better freight rates and service, and from 1893 through 1907 there
were reports and survey crews with the hope of a second railroad much
closer to their location, coming either through Blacksmith Fork Canyon
or over the southern ridge from Ogden. Expectations were aroused for a
woolen factory at Logan, but like the railroad prospects, it never came
off. In September of 1897 a resident of Avon was in Logan on business
and reported all was well in his home town and "everything as booming in
Avon." Six weeks later a county official revealed there was an "epidemic
of diphtheria . . . at Avon." Of several health concerns the worse was
perhaps the diphtheria cases in late 1897 extending into 1898 with some
deaths. By January of 1901 Avon and five neighboring communities were
placed in one of four health districts with a health office to oversee
efforts to prevent or contain contagious diseases. Apparently there was
no one in Avon reporting to the church paper in Salt Lake or the closer
newspapers at Logan and Ogden. A very rare exception came in a report in
December of 1900 that reported the situation in Avon as follows: "The
grain crop here were good considering the season, but we expect to have
better crops next year, and more lucern will be raised in this valley in
the future. Some of our farmers got $4 per ton for their hay, the
average price is $2.50 per ton." The yearly crop of school students
caused concern over adequate education based on funding which by 1906
caused serious consideration of consolidating the numerous school
districts in Cache County into one county district. The showdown on the
issue came in 1908 with Avon being among eight localities strongly
favoring consolidation. When the county commissioner adopted the
consolidation into the Cache County School District, the old Avon School
District passed out of existence after two decades of service. From the
beginning of Avon, farming and grazing were the mainstays in the
community's economic life. In the grazing there were cooperative
enterprises from small units to incorporated companies to conduct
general ranching and grazing business in the southern tip of Cache
County. However, in the latter half of the Twentieth Century more and
more of Avon's residents found employment elsewhere yet retained their
residence in their small picturesque village nestled among the
mountains. In the 2000 census 306 people were counted in seventy-seven
families.
Babbit Shanty Hill
Baker Canyon
Bald Head Mountain
Ballard Junction - formerly a railroad junction three
miles south of Cache Junction where the old Benson Cutoff went to Logan.
Bankhead Well
Baxter - a small rural settlement southwest of Hyrum and east
of Mt. Sterling which developed after the village settlement pattern of
Mormon communities changed to reflect the time when people were
obtaining homesteads and/or larger tracts of land and living on their
farms. Due to the number of Baxter families, the locale was called after
this family name and this became the accepted name shortly after 1890.
The Cache County Court created the Baxter School District No. 25 and one
of the last of the community school districts in the county. The area
also became a road district with taxes imposed and money available to
maintain the roads. In December of 1894 there were a total of 31
students in the Baxter school. In late January of 1895 the LDS Church
combined its members in Mt. Sterling and Baxter into one ward known as
Mount Sterling Ward. It was four miles square and contained 23 families.
In the summer of 1895 a post office was established to serve the area
and named Rawlins. In April of 1896 the inhabitants and taxpayers of
Baxter and Mt. Sterling requested their two school districts be united
and the county court granted their wish. On June 11, 1896 the Logan
newspaper's columns contained this statement: "Baxter, Mount Sterling
and Rawlings, all mean the same thing." For a number of years the
location name of Baxter continued in tax listings and road matters, but
before long the ecclesiastical name of the ward proved dominant and
Baxter ceased to be used as a settlement designation and today the name
only remains in the topography at Baxter Ridge and Baxter Pothole.
Bear Canyon - Cache Co.-Rich
Co.-Idaho line, west along border
Bear Hollow
Bear Lake Summit - elevation
7810 feet on US Hwy 89
Bear River Canyon - also
referred to as the Bear River Gorge and Bear River Narrows where Bear
River leaves Cache Valley to flow into the Box Elder County. An 1876 map
of Utah shows a place designed as "The Gates" and in close proximity to
the towns of Clarkston and Newton while most likely referring to the
narrow gorge (the Gates of Bear River) passageway through the mountains
into the adjacent valley.
Bear River Range - these mountains are a branch of the larger Wasatch Range, and extend 72 miles from north to south. They are located in northeastern Utah and southeastern Idaho with over half of the mountains in the latter state.
Beirdneau - A summer home area
Benson - a settlement a few miles northwest of
Logan was started in 1870 when the Charles Reese and Israel J. Clark
families settled there. The main settlement area was at the southernmost
bend of the Bear River in Cache County. The following year on May 3rd
Apostle Moses Thatcher and presiding bishop Wm. B. Preston organized the
settlement into a ward. Bishop Preston suggested the name honoring Ezra
T. Benson, the presiding Church authority in Cache Valley at the time.
It would eventually expand to comprise a larger geographical area more
than any community in Cache County (whether city, town or census
designated place). This CDP (census designated place) covers a total
area of 33.9 square miles of which 3 sq. miles is covered by water.
Bergeson Hill - elevation 5964
feet located north of Little Mountain and west of Cornish and Big Hill.
Big Hill - elevation 5725 ft. a
small hill to the west of Cornish and south of the Utah-Idaho line.
Big Hollow
Bird Canyon
Black Peak -
Black Rock -
Blacksmith Fork Guard Station -
Blue Bell Mine -
Blue Hill -
Brachipad - A summer home area
Brushy Canyon -
Cache Butte -
Cache Junction History
Cache Junction
Establishment
Eatery Roulette in Early Cache Junction
Camp Wapti -
Cannon - was located near the Idaho border and just
west of the railroad and was shown on a 1895 map of Utah and now is part
of Cornish Precinct. A map of Oneida County in the Territory of Idaho
shows "Cannon" on the Idaho side of the border.
Cardon
- southwestern Smithfield (fourth west and between fifth and sixth
south) where a secondary railroad line branched from the main Cache
Valley Branch
Cart Hill -
Charles Hollow -
Choke Cherry - A summer home
area
History of Early Clarkston
1864 Land Surveys Clarkston, UT
1874 Land Surveys Clarkston, UT
Short Stories on Clarkston Utah
Clarkston Mountain - the
southern extension of the Malad Range of mountains. It forms the western
boundary of Cache County with Box Elder County and is dissected by
numerous canyons. The mountain's highest point is Gunsight Peak at an
elevation of 8244 ft. and has very steep slopes up to seventy per cent
in places. A segment of the Wasatch Fault lies along this mountain and
with the following landmarks and landforms from north to south from the
Idaho border:
-- Gowan's Hollow -
-- Steel Canyon - the most
important and noted canyon in the Clarkston Mountain allowing deep
access back into the interior to Jenkins Hollow, Big Meadow and beyond
and used extensively to graze cattle, horses and sheep. A small
intermittent stream flows from it into Clarkston Creek. Oral folklore
had it named after a man with no known connection to Clarkston or nearby
community.
-- Broken Back Canyon -
-- North Canyon -
-- Old
Quigley Canyon - named for Andrew Quigley, an early settler at
Clarkston.
-- Cold Water Canyon -
-- Sam Stuart Canyon -
--
New Quigley Canyon - named for Andrew Quigley, an early settler at
Clarkston.
-- Mike's Canyon -
-- Elbow Canyon -
-- Raglanite
Canyon - located about 2 miles northwest of Clarkston, the Clarkston
fault displaces middle to upper Pleistocene fan alluvium and possibly
local thin deposits of younger Holocene alluvium. Definitions: raglanite
('rag'l?'nit) named after a nepheline syenite (igneous rock) compound
with traces of several other minerals found in the canyon. (petrology) A
nepheline syenite composed of oligoclase, nepheline, and corundum with
minor amounts of mica, calcite, magnetite, and apatite.
-- Winter
Canyon -
-- Green Canyon - an easily accessible canyon in the east
side of the Cache valley, north of Logan Canyon and east of North Logan.
It was the source of some of the limestone for the Logan Tabernacle and
other buildings. For a period in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the
area was prospected for mineral wealth with traces found but nothing
worth commercial mining.
> -- Old Canyon - directly west of the town
of Clarkston and the first canyon opened by the early settlers to get
timber and firewood.
-- Straight Canyon -
-- Miller Canyon -
-- South Canyon - Cache Co.-Rich Co.-Idaho lines, west along state
border.
-- Round Knob - a small knob or knoll east of the Short
Divide and just south of Clarkson with an elevation of 5290 feet.
--
Gunsight Peak - the highest point in the Clarkston Mountain reaches 8244
feet above sea level and is located in Box Elder County. The descriptive
name comes from the early settlers' thinking the mountain's contour to
the top peak resembled the notches in a gunsight.
-- Short Divide -
the crossing point over the summit at 5892 ft. south of the abrupt drop
off from the highest portion.
College Ward
- is located midway between Logan and Wellsville. A few weeks before his
death in 1877 President Brigham Young deeded this 9,640 acre ranch
(either his personally or the Church's in Young's name) to local leaders
with the understanding that a college would be established at the
location and named for the Church President with initial funding by this
land endowment. However, this institution'Brigham Young College'was
established at Logan for practical reasons and the BYC had its first
classes in 1878. Beginning in 1879 a few settlers were allowed to
establish homes and farms on the endowed land, which came to be called
College Ward with the first census under that name taken in 1900 with
261persons listed.
Cook's Cabin -
Cooky's Hollow -
Cornish - the area between
Trenton and the Idaho border, initially called Ransom, then the upper
part of Trenton and finally Cannon. In 1907 with the establishment of a
railroad station and facilities the railroad changed the name to honor
the Vice President of the UPRR at the time'William D. Cornish. About
1915 the West Cache Sugar Company built a sugar refining factory here
and two years later constructed a hotel for its employees. The sugar
factory closed in 1928 and in 1936 the company hotel was given to the
LDS Church who remodeled it to be the Cornish Ward meetinghouse.
Cove - initially an outgrowth of Richmond with the
first house in the area about 1863 then more after 1871, and the
locality proceeded through a series of name changes'Mt. Refuge,
Coveville and finally Cove by the early 1900s.
Some interesting
newspaper citations are noted below:
June 4, 1880 - p. 3 under "Cache
County Cross Cuts."
"The village between Richmond and Franklin
belonging to the former ward has received the name of Mt. Refuge."
--The Logan Leader, June 4, 1880.
May 13, 1885 - p. 3 under "Richmond
News."
At the dedication of a new ward meeting house at Richmond
--"The Presidency of the Stake were present, besides several of the
leading men from Lewiston, Coveville and other places. . . . Interesting
and instructive addresses were delivered by Bishop Isaac Smith, of
Logan, Bishop Larsen, of Coveville. . . ."
--The Utah Journal, May
13, 1885.
May 10, 1890 - p.1 under "WHEAT BY THE WAYSIDE."
"Our
Correspondent Visits the New Town."
"COVEVILLE, May 8, 1890.
"EDITOR JOURNAL. -- As I am accustomed to state the condition of affairs
in most places I travel, I do not wish to slight this place. Coveville
is a small settlement. There are only forty families residing here, and
they are very much scattered. Good health prevails in this burg. There
are none very rich nor very poor. Public enterprise is noticeable,
probably more so than in any settlement of the same number of same
number of inhabitants in the county.
"The meeting house and its
surroundings are a credit to the community. The structure is built upon
a ten acre tract of land . . . . and containing a grove of nine hundred
shade and ornamental trees, well fenced, and which bids fair to be one
of the most beautiful groves in the county in a few years. The meeting
house is neat and tasty building, well proportioned and creditably
finished both outside and in. There is no meetinghouse in the county
more comfortably seated and better finished than this one. The Bishop's
store house is a good, substantial structure. The lot on which it stands
is surrounded with beautiful shade trees. There is a missionary farm
here consisting of forty acres of good land. Twenty acres are now sown
to fall grain which looks beautiful. The other twenty acres will be
summer fallowed. Two hundred and seventy bushels of wheat were realized
from this farm last year. There are better prospects for good crops this
year than for many years past.
"There are some individual enterprises
in every town that are good, and some not so creditable. I found some of
the latter in Coveville. I am not writing this with the spirit of
faultfinding. However, as I passed through the precinct a passage that I
had read somewhere came forcibly to my mind. It reads something like
this: 'Some secrets shall be revealed on the housetops.' Nearly half of
the houses have no chimneys. Common stovepipes penetrate the roofs. The
secret of this revelation appears to me that it is 'penny wise and pound
foolish,' especially so when there is a shingle roof. There might to a
conflagration, in one of those houses, in consequence of this . . . .
There are no . . . houses anywhere in the county with less chimneys than
at Coveville." T. A. T.
--The Logan Journal, May 10, 1890.
April
11, 1901 - p. 5 under "Court at Logan."
"Yesterday was Coveville day
in Logan, a great many residents of that place being here all day to
fight for and against a proposed division of the Cove school district,
which question had disturbed the north end of the county for five years
past. After hearing a lot of evidence, the commissioners ordered the
division made, thereby cutting a portion off the north and east sides of
the present district and creating a new district for it."
--Salt Lake
Herald, April 11, 1901.
Crow Mountain - elevation 5620
ft located north of Smithfield
Cub Hill - probably more
than one place in or about the Cub River in Cache County used this name.
For example, in the early days after establishing a post office for
Lewiston in 1870s to correct some confusion with another location in
Utah with the same name, the post office designation was changed to 'Cub
Hill' for a short period of time. Later the 1895 U.S Atlas cited the
'Cub Hill' location in Cache County as having a railroad but no post
office.
Curtis Hollow -
Dans Hollow -
Deer Ridge -
Devil's Gate Canyon -
Dry Gulch -
Dry Hollow -
Dry Lake or 'sink hole' -
elevation 5647 feet, where the U.S. Hwy. crosses this low spot
Fiddlers Hollow -
Four Mile Hill - elevation 5711
feet, south of Avon.
Four Mile Ranch -
Fox Hollow -
Garrett's Hollow -
Gibson Canyon -
Gowan's Hollow -
Greens Corner - northeast of old
Wellsville and now part of that community. Named for Isaac Green who
settled at a location which became an important crossroads, even unto
today.
Greenville - by 1878 four homesteads were
filed by farmers on the dry sagebrush lands northeast of Logan and came
as an outgrowth of that community. By 1890 eight additional families
joined them and by 1898 there were twenty families living in a scattered
condition northeast of Logan. They were located at the mouth of Green
Canyon and were considered part of Logan in reports on taxes, roads,
mail and census matters as well as religious services, etc. Sometime
later these settlers began to be identified as residing in Greensville,
and on July 26, 1891, the Greenville Ward was organized. There came in
time a Greenville School District (students 1904 - 101; 1908 - 103), a
Greenville Road District and eventually a Greenville Precinct, but for
many years Greenville would be cited by name but with an appendage "part
of Logan" attached in county and state records. The 1910 Census listed
Greenville as a precinct and township, but by 1920 the name had been
changed to North Logan. A 1916 Geological Survey map (from a 1913-14
survey) cited "North Logan" for the community but as the far western
side beside the railroad track there was listed a "Greenville." Probably
the change of names came about when the locality started requesting
their own post office and learned that another and older Greenville
existed in Beaver County in southern Utah.
Halfway Canyon -
Hell Canyon -
High Creek Canyon -
Holt or Holt
Siding - the "Holt Siding" was on the UPRR's Cache Valley
Branch a short distance from the Millville station; it was named for a
railroad official. It now is part of Nibley.
Honey Bee Mine -
Hyde Park
-
Hyde Park Canyon -
Hyrum - is located about eight miles south of
Logan. The first settlers came in the spring of 1860 and established
themselves by a spring at a location about a mile from the present town
site, but by fall they relocated to the bench land to the south and set
up a street-type fort along both sides of present day Main Street. The
community's name was suggested by David Osborn, one of the pioneer
settlers and in high favor with the Church, to honor Hyrum Smith. It was
planned to establish another town nearby to be named 'Joseph' thus
memorializing the Smith brothers - Prophet and Patriarch. The second
town was never established.
James Peak - this peak at 9410
ft. in elevation is situated in the southern tip of Cache County near
the Weber County line and was named for David James, an early bishop of
Paradise.
Jensen Hollow -
John Kidman Hollow -
Junction Hills -
a general grouping of the low-lying hills known locally as the West
Hills before the topographers decided on the new name sometime after the
early 1890s. This grouping of hills lies south of Clarkston Mountain,
comprising a series of short fault traces between the Clarkston Mountain
and the Wellsville Mountains with the following Landforms from north to
south:
-- Al Archibald Hollow -
-- Bob Archibald Hollow -
--
Benson's Hollow -
-- Long Divide - on the north side of the canyon
and overlooking Cutler Dam and Reservoir the highest point is a small
rocky knob elevation 5478 ft. in which the boundary line between Cache
Co. and Box Elder Co. passed over it. The prominent rocky bulge or hump
has been given the colloquial name of 'Molly's Nipple.'
-- Bear
River Canyon - also referred to as the Bear River Gorge and Bear River
Narrows where Bear River leaves Cache Valley to flow into Box Elder
County. An 1876 map of Utah shows a place designated as 'The Gates' in
close proximity to the towns of Clarkston and Newton which most likely
referred to the narrow gorge as 'The Gates' or passageway through the
mountains into the adjacent valley.
South of the gorge is a higher
point unnamed and less well defined rising to 5596 ft. with the
following named landforms to the south:
-- The Point - located 1.4
miles south of the wye at Cache Junction.
-- Black Rock - about a
mile south of The Point, a higher dark formation has an elevation over
4775 ft. and is directly east of Cache Butte on the boundary line, the
northern extension of Black Rock, a mountain point, extends eastward
almost to the RR track.
-- Cache Butte - elevation 5340 ft. and
directly west of Black Rock.
-- Mendon Hill - also called 'Mendon
Divide,' 'Cache Hill' and later 'Collingston Hill.' It provided the
easiest access into and out of Cache Valley, especially for vehicular
travel. In 1872-1873 a narrow gauged railroad track was laid over this
hill. Due to the heavy gradient of the track (90 ft. per mile over a
three mile section of the hill) the railroad eventually established a
station at the summit of this hill. In time the road over this hill came
to be called the 'Valley View' road or highway due to the grand survey
of the valley that the descending road provided.
Junction Hills Fault - This
fault is poorly expressed as a discontinuous down-to-the-east normal
fault trace, beginning at the range front east of Short Divide and
continuing southeastward along the eastern margins of the Junction Hills
and Cache Butte to east of the northern Wellsville Mountains. For most
of its length, the fault is concealed by Lake Bonneville deposits and
locally by Holocene to upper Pleistocene landslide debris (Solomon,
1999). The only conclusive evidence of Quaternary displacement is
associated with three short lineaments northeast of Cache Butte. Fault
scarps at the surface along the lineaments are subtle and subdued due to
degradation from repeated plowing (Solomon, 1999). Oviatt (1986a)
reports 2.4 meters of displacement in the basal transgressive gravel of
Lake Bonneville in a stream cut across the central lineament, and
evidence for multiple pre-Bonneville events; Black and others (2000)
measured 2.9 meters of most recent event displacement in the stream cut,
and also indicate observing evidence of a pre-Bonneville event.
Kidman Canyon -
King - the old post
office name was changed from Riverside to King, but the area was still
known as Riverside and the school continued under that name until the
consolidation of all the Cache County schools in the early 1910s.
However, the newly designated King Post Office left its impression on
the area even after the post office closed in 1922. According to a
1924-25 R. L. Polk and Co.'s directory for Logan and Cache County, this
place was named King after a discontinued post office and was located in
Cache County on Bear River some nine miles northwest of Logan and three
and a half miles southwest of Smithfield with a population of 200. It
was stated to be on the Oregon Short Line Railroad (OSLRR), which in
reality was a small branch line that ran from Lewiston southward in the
center of the valley to near King. A 1916 Logan Quadrangle Topographic
Map by the Interior Dept. had 'King' east of the southward flowing Bear
River, matching the above directions but with the mileage to Logan being
closer to five miles rather than nine. This King area would later become
incorporated into the present day Benson community, which was in 1916
over two miles to the southwest
La
Plata
La Plata Canyon -
La Plata Mine -
Leatham Hollow -
Lewiston
Brief History
of the Settlement of Lewiston Off-Site
Little Mountain - a small hill
between Trenton and the Newton Reservoir which in the past has been
called the 'Trenton Hill' or 'Newton Hill.' Its highest point reaches
5693 feet above sea level, or 924 feet higher than the nearby spillway
of the Newton Dam. A mine shaft was cut in the eastern side through
solid rock but no mineral wealth came from the effort. People climbing
its steep slopes have found numerous small seashells left from ancient
Lake Bonneville.
Logan
Logan's Firestorm Over New Chemical Fire Engine
News Tidbits from Logan, UT compiled by Larry D. Christiansen
Dr. Oliver C. Ormsby: The Dean of Early Cache Valley Doctors
compiled by Larry D. Christiansen
Maple Grove Hollow -
McKenzie Mountain -
Mendon
Mendon Peak -
Middle Mountain -
Miles Canyon -
Millville
Millville Peak -
Mineral Point -
located approximately seven and a half miles east-southeast of Avon,
Utah and about four miles directly north of La Plata. It was heralded as
the 'heart of the mineral belt' in northern Utah's Cache Valley. It is
both a mountain with a pointed northern end and a short-lived mining
district. In the early 1890s the Logan newspaper predicted it would, in
all probability, become 'A Great Mining Camp in Cache County' and with
La Plata and nearby mining areas, would hopefully boast a population of
a thousand people by late 1891. In October of 1890 the Cache County
Court created the Mineral Point School District which covered the
geographical area of Mineral Point, La Plata and adjacent mining areas.
By September of 1891, 'A tract of land has already been laid off at
Mineral Point for town purposes.' Six weeks later the Mineral Point
Mining Company was organized with a capital of $100,000 and commenced
work in five mines. Buildings were erected and shafts dug with promises
of galena (lead), iron and copper. However, the mining news of Mineral
Point quickly went from front page reports and hype to last page fading
hope. In September of 1892, the county court changed the name and
primary location of the local school district to the Avon School
District. For the next thirty-three months there was no further mention
of Mineral Point in the Logan newspaper. In June of 1895 there was a
report of resumption of work at one of the mines, but it was brief; the
status of this descriptive landscape remained a ghost town thereafter.
Mitchell Hollow -
Monte Christo Forest -
Monte Cristo Peak - elevation
9148 ft. on the Cache-Weber Co. line, not far from the Rich Co. line.
Mormon Hollow -
Morton - located between Trenton and Cornish.
Mount McKinnon - elevation 9081
ft. on the Cache-Rich Co. line.
Mountain Home - sometimes referred to as Mt. Home
in some Cache County records and newspapers. It was an outgrowth of the
scattered settlement of Coveville with some of the older homes being in
the northeast section, close to the Idaho border. When a sufficient
number of settlers were in the area, they requested a school with a
resultant official name attached to the locale associated with the
Mountain Home School District, and it also became a voting and census
district around the beginning of 1900. In 1904 the school had
forty-seven students, and by1907 the school population of the district
was fifty-one students meeting in an un-graded school. The 1910 census
recorded the first count of the Mountain Home precinct at 160 persons;
in the 1920 census the number enrolled declined to 118. While they
retained their school, they were no longer a school district, having
been consolidated into the Cache County School District in 1908. Before
the 1930 census the Mountain Home vicinity was placed in with Coveville.
A 1916 U.S. Dept. of the Interior map of the Logan Quadrangle
illustrates most of the houses plus the location of the Mountain Home
School. Today, the name is retained in the Mountain Home Road that
traverses from Cove to the Idaho border and then on to Franklin.
Mount Sterling - located about a mile south of
Wellsville and extending eastward encompassing a large agricultural area
opposed to the earlier village settlement pattern of the Mormons. People
obtained homesteads and larger tracts of farmland and began living on
their farms. In 1892 the area was formed as a school district (possibly
numbered as #26) and it became a road district. One of the earliest
references to this place in the newspaper came on July 23, 1895 with the
announcement: "The Democratic Society and precinct committee of Mt.
Sterling were consolidated and reorganized on the 11th . . . . Mount
Sterling is all right for Democracy." Which meant that as the local
Mormons shifted their political allegiances to the two national parties
that those at this location were predominately Democrats. A month later
the newspaper printed a report from Mt. Sterling that "All the people
own large farms and this year the crops are very large. The land is good
and well cultivated, and they are all dry farmes [sic farms]." It also
predicted that their district would soon have a nice church building as
"many who now own farms, but live in other Wards will come and live on
their property or sell it to some one who will." The Baxter area was
consolidated with them in their church ward (1895) and schools (1896),
and the Mt. Sterling Ward meetinghouse dedicated on February 25, 1897.
The 1900 Census enrolled 183 people that include those in the Baxter
area. The quiet rural settlement raised its various crops with few, if
any tares, until the election of 1906. Then came the political tares of
that fall's elections producing the first tarnish indirectly on Mt.
Sterling. While the larger issue dealt with high church leaders using
their influence and "unfair methods in behalf of the Republicans," at
Mount Sterling it involved two members of the Hyrum Stake presidency
"procuring official ballots from the judges of Mount Sterling precinct
two days before the elections" that were marked for the ballot box. This
was followed by finding that ballots were missing from other precincts.
For five months accusations, excuses and much explaining went on,
getting much coverage in the Salt Lake newspapers until the two local
church leaders had a hearing before a justice of the peace in the county
who quickly dismissed the case. According to the Salt Lake Herald (a
pro-Mormon paper), the justice of the peace decided "with the wisdom of
a Caliph of Bagdad" that the two local authorities "didn't mean any
harm."
Naomi Peak - located in Cache County, is the highest point in the Bear River Mountains of northern Utah and southern Idaho. The summit rises 9,979 feet above sea level. Naomi Peak is the highest peak in the Bear River Range. (the northernmost sub-range of the Wasatch Mountains) its peak is the high point on the main north-south ridge. While the limestone range is not very high it is extremely rugged, and the views from the top of Naomi are outstanding. Many of the most interesting peaks in the range can be seen from the summit. It is only visible from Cache Valley in a very few places as there are other high mountains in front of it. It is located on the eastern boundary of the Naomi Peak Wilderness area. It is a very massive mountain and it's difficult to tell when you're actually on the top. Gog and Magog are northeast of Naomi Peak. The west face is a series of broken cliffs that drop quite a ways. The east face is very rocky and sharp but not half as steep as the west. There was a USGS marker on the top, it is gone now. The peak can be approached from either the east, via the Tony Grove trailhead, or the northwest, via the High Creek Lake trailhead which is the longer and more difficult route of the two.
Narrow Canyon -
Newton - A Town History
Newton - Old News
Newton - Town
Government
Newton -
Development of the Irrigation System
Short Stories on Newton Utah
School District #6 Assessment Rolls 1875-1878
School District #6 Census Rolls for 1875-1885
Transcript of Record Books for District #6
Newton Town Board Minutes 1900-1935 - provided by the Special
Collection Department, Newton Town Library
Nibley - was the outgrowth of nearby
Millville and created in 1920 with the division of the parent ward. It
was named for Charles W. Nibley, a prominent businessman and leading
Mormon official. Five years later, in 1925, the Cache County
commissioners created Nibley precinct as a separate political entity.
The 1930 census listed 277 residents.
Nip Hollow -
North Fork Hell Canyon -
North Logan - Greenville was the original name for
North Logan; it was changed when the people learned another Utah town
had the same name.
Old Canyon -
Old Logway Canyon -
Ox Killer Hollow -
Paradise
Pete McCombs Hill - elevation
5253 feet and located between Clarkston and Trenton.
Petersburg - a short-lived place name in the southern tip of
Cache Valley east of the Little Bear River where the present community
of Paradise is located. Shortly after the 1860 initial settlement of
Paradise ("Old Paradise") at a small lush cove near the junction of East
Creek and the Little Bear River, four families chose to place their
cabins three miles further north and down stream rather than in the
fort-styled Paradise settlement. Their area came to be called
Petersburg. When the settlement of Paradise was relocated from its first
location in 1867-68, it moved to and absorbed the place of the four
Petersburg families.
Peterboro
Peter Sinks - is found in the
Wasatch Range southwest of the Bear Lake Summit, recorded an all-time
Utah record low temperature of 69 degrees below zero on Feb. 1, 1985.
Pete's Hollow -
Pine Bluffs - A summer home area
Pioneer Campground -
Porcupine Ridge -
Powder Mountain -
Providence
Public Grove Hollow -
Quigley
Crossing
Quinney - a
1916 edition of a Logan Quadrangle topographical map of Cache County
shows no Quinney on the map and depicts the Ogden, Logan and Idaho
Railway line from its entering Cache County on the west side through
Mendon, Wellsville, Hyrum and up the east side and through Lewiston on
into Idaho. Another map made a few years later shows the area of
northeastern Cache County with specific coverage of the above rail line
or interurban. In early 1918 the company was renamed the Utah-Idaho
Central Railroad Company (UIC). The interurban line ran north-south
through the center of Smithfield northward to Richmond on its western
side. It continued northward paralleling the county road to the
Merrills' area where the Oregon Short Line Railroad (OSLRR), the county
road and the interurban line in that order ran next to one another in
close proximity. At a point about a mile and three-quarters north of
Richmond, the interurban line crossed via an underpass to the west of
the OSLRR and went northwesterly towards Lewiston with a short spur
track to the Lewiston sugar factory. The line continued through Lewiston
and turned directly north into Idaho and on to Preston. In 1916 a branch
line was built westward from the Sugarton area of Lewiston where the
sugar factory spur went east of the main line, and was named the Quinney
Branch after Joseph Quinney, Jr., whose family and he personally had a
long close relationship with the family of David Eccles, the brains and
money behind the interurban line. Joseph Quinney, Jr., served as the
general superintendent of the sugar factories in Cache County in 1910s
and held other important sugar related positions, including being
district manager of the Amalgamated Sugar Company in 1920s.
Quinney Branch Line - the work of building this branch
line was done by the Cache Valley Railroad Company, another of the many
Eccles enterprises. The first portion of the line went directly west
just over two miles to the Cunningham area were a 19 car spur was
located for the placement of a beet dump. The line continued west
another mile to Kent where a 32 car siding was established. In 1918 a
north-south "T" section was added to the line running from Mills at the
the Utah-Idaho border where a 23 car spur was constructed, and going
directly south a mile and a half to the facilities at Kent. It continued
southeast another mile and a half to the Wheeler area where a 14 car
spur was placed, and on just over half a mile to Bullen where a 34 car
spur was built. Another mile and a half and the line crossed Bear River
over a substantial steel bridge east of Trenton. A mile south of the
river bridge at Litz the company established both a 13 car spur and a 23
car siding. Continuing south just less than a mile brought the line to
the Hurren area where a 24 car siding was made. The branch line went
south another two and a half miles to where a three-quarters mile spur
was built to the Amalgamated Sugar Factory adjacent to Bear River. This
sugar factory spur had a capacity for 30 cars. Later the line was
extended south another two and a half miles to Thain where a 6 car spur
was constructed at this terminus of the Quinney Branch of a little over
fourteen miles. With this last addition the junction with the sugar
factory spur was labeled incorrectly on a map as the "Alta Jct." It
should have read the "Alto Jct." after the initial name for this area.
At each of the spurs and sidings there was a sugar beet dump. The
original concept for this branch line was to haul freight only, almost
exclusively sugar beets and refined sugar. In 1919 the Cache Valley
Railroad Company was consolidated with the Utah-Idaho Central Railroad
and the Quinney Branch became part of the UIC Railroad. Thereafter a
two-car school train ran over the line during the school year which ran
at cost, providing no profit for the UIC. The service on the branch line
was greatly reduced and sporadic after the closing of the Amalgamated
Sugar Company factory and the financial troubles of the Utah -Idaho
Central Railroad beginning with the first receivership in 1926, and it
stopped completely long before the UIC went out of business in 1947. The
tracks of the Quinney Branch were scrapped out soon thereafter.
Quinney Sugar Factory - the name made it onto at least
one map and may have been a common nickname for the factory on the
Quinney Branch Line but probably was never officially the name of the
facilities, just an easy location name.
Ransom - a
locale near Trenton. The 1895 map of Utah shows Trenton a short distance
west of the railroad tracks with nearby "Ransom" right on the railroad
route. Both places had a post office but neither had a railroad station.
All that remains of this place, name wise, is "Ransom Hollow."
Rattlesnake Canyon -
Red Spur Mountain - elevation
8872 ft. on the Cache-Rich Co. line.
-- Gorge Canyon -
-- North
Gorge Canyon -
Richmond
Richmond Mystery or Canard 1884-1905 by Larry D. Christiansen
River Heights - a community across the Logan River
south of Logan. It was settled in 1882 as an outgrowth of the nearby
communities. It was initially called 'Dry Town' reflecting its situation
when the first canal failed to bring water uphill to the town. Once this
was resolved it was renamed River Heights. Under that name the first
census figures were from 1920, reporting 298 people in the town.
Riverside - name used for the rural agricultural area
west-south-west of Smithfield and some two miles north of the initial
Benson settlement on the east side of Bear River where a scattered
string of farms developed during the 1880s. Apparently these farms
initially developed without a distinct identity but with their closest
ties to Smithfield to the east. In May of 1890 the parents of
twenty-five school aged children petitioned Cache County to create a
'school district in the western part of Smithfield district' for their
children. On June 2nd of 1890 the county court took up this petition and
unanimously agreed and created the Riverside School District No. 20 and
set its precise boundaries. This was the first time the name 'Riverside'
made its way into the official county records. The creation of a school
district or possibly the establishment of a post office, shortly before
or after this, brought a distinct name for the area on the east side of
Bear River. About this same time a post office was set up but this can
only be confirmed by newspaper reports. Both the school building and the
post office bore the name Riverside. However, the latter kept the name
for a short time when in June of 1897 there developed mail problems
because there was another Riverside Post Office within Utah. Due to the
other one being the oldest, the one in Cache County had to change its
name. It was decided to change the name to King Post Office in honor of
Utah's Representative to Congress William H. King. Still, all county
collection of taxes and funds appropriated were in the name of
Riverside. Its student population by the mid 1890s rivaled or exceeded
nearby Benson. In 1898 the school had seventy students in all grades,
most of whom had to travel some distance to school. Usually, according
to the Logan newspaper, 'Most of them come horseback' two, three, four
and even five, according to the size rider on one horse.' "Riverside
Reverberations" (from the newspaper at Logan) in early 1898 described
Riverside as covering "a large extent of territory" but "thinly settled
as yet. Population is increasing. . . ." But there were some changes as
the King Post Office was serviced from the Benson Post Office, and the
county frequently tied the Benson and Riverside road district together
on appropriations.
Round Hill - elevation 5418 ft.
east and north of Hyde Park
Round Knob - a small knob or
knoll east of the Short Divide and just south of Clarkson which rises to
5,290 ft.
Sardine Canyon - whose name has
been given to the passageway from Cache County to Box Elder County.
Sardine Summit - elevation 5969
ft.
Sardine Watty Glen -
Sawmill Canyon -
Scare Canyon -
Scott Peak -
Sharp Mountain -
Shenoah Campground -
Shingle Mill Hollow -
Shumway Canyon -
Silver Mine Hollow -
Smithfield
Smithfield Canyon -
Snow Canyon -
South Grove Hollow -
Starks Hollow -
Stauffer Canyon -
Stephenson - a locale and school district in what is now the
western side of Lewiston and named for the most prominent family in the
area. In April of 1897 this Stephenson district paid $1,091.64 in taxes
to Cache County and the state. In November of 1897 a letter to the local
newspaper stated that "Lewiston embraces Lewiston, Stephenson, and the
Wheeler school districts, with the three schools in Lewiston, two in
Stephenson, and one in Wheeler, making six schools in our ward . . . ."
There is an 1888 picture of one of the Stephenson school buildings
located at 1590 West Center Street. In 1904 when Lewiston officially
incorporated as a town both Stephenson and Wheeler districts formally
became part of Lewiston.
Stewart Pass - elevation 8376
ft.???
Stoddard Canyon -
Stoddard Hill -
Steel Canyon -
Strawberry Valley -
--
Lodgepole Canyon -
-- Hells Hollow -
Summit - located on the
Utah Northern Railroad's narrow gauged line over the mountain divide
between Collingston and Mendon. This high point on the first tracks into
Cache County was shown on a 1876 map of Utah. On later railroad
schedules this "Summit" in the Cache Hills was shortened to "Cachill."
The steep grade over this divide with its long "S" shaped road bed often
required double engines to ascend the hill, making it more than just a
high point but a operational point on the line.
The Point -
Thimbleberry Canyon -
Three Hill - elevation 5689 ft.
located east of Hyde Park
Three Mile Canyon -
Trenton
- The McCombs family located on Bear River, near present day Trenton, in
1869. The first real settlement of the town began in 1872. The name for
the new town was suggested by William B. Preston, church leader,
businessman, mayor of Logan and one of the most prominent men in the
county, born and reared in Virginia; not as folklore has it after
Preston's home town in New Jersey where he never lived. Perhaps he
likened the two locations'the New Jersey city beside the Delaware River,
which General Washington crossed in the Revolutionary War and the new
town in Cache County beside the Bear River. The town was on the 1895 map
of Utah with the 1895 U.S. atlas listing the town with a post office but
no railroad service. Later, Trenton would have railroad service, and
experience a land development project of significant size.
Boom to Bust in Trenton: Apples, Cereal Factory and Home Sites for Ten
Thousand
Utida - the
railroad "in spite" established a depot on the Utah-Idaho border in 1890
when Weston would not make concessions for one.
Washboards - a small rolling
hill north of Clarkston and east of Clarkston Mountain and extending
into Idaho and whose contours resembled those on early ribbed washing
boards.
Webster
- was located about a half mile north of Cove on U.S. Hwy 91 at the
junction of the main road to Lewiston. In 1897 the area paid taxes to
Cache County, was listed on the 1910 and 1920 censuses by name and was
shown on a 1922 map of Utah.
Wheeler - a
separate school district in the wide spread Lewiston area and named for
one of the prominent families. In 1897 the Wheeler district paid $751.95
in taxes to the county and state. It is now part of Lewiston.
Wellsville
Wellsville Mountains - a spur of
the Wasatch Range of mountains and dissected by numerous canyons. They
are noted for being the steepest and narrowest mountain range in the
Rocky Mountains and perhaps the world. They abruptly rise from the
valley floor in Cache County to the sharp ridge line of over 9300 feet
in elevation. This rise of almost 5000 feet comes in just two and a half
miles. While these mountains are not particularly high, they are very
narrow, averaging only about five miles wide at its base. In addition to
their picturesque terrain, they are an invaluable watershed for sixteen
communities. Some of the landmarks and landforms are as follows:
--
Spring Hollow
-- Yonk Canyon
-- Big Hollow
-- Dry Hollow
--
Willies Hollow
-- John Kidman Hollow
-- Fiddlers Hollow
-- Pole
Canyon
-- Deep Canyon
-- Thimbleberry Canyon
-- Bird Canyon
-- Kidman Canyon
-- Baker Canyon
-- Stauffer Canyon
-- Mendon
Peak - elevation 8766 ft.
-- Gibson Canyon
-- Old Logway Canyon
-- North Fork Canyon
-- Hells Canyon
-- Coldwater Canyon
--
Shumway Canyon
-- Wellsille Cone - elevation 9356 ft. has the
appearance of an old volcanic cinder cone with its northern face eroded
away, but it is composed of sedimentary limestone, thus not formed by a
volcano. The Cone has two summits with the higher one on the east side.
-- Brushy Canyon
-- Pine Canyon
-- Box Elder Peak - elevation
9372 ft. is the highest point in the Wellsville Mountains.
-- Wide
Canyon
-- Rattlesnake Canyon
-- Narrow Canyon
-- Stoddard
Canyon
-- Silver Mine Hollow
-- Wellsville Canyon
-- Snow
Canyon
-- Black Peak - elevation 7726 ft.
-- Sardine Summit -
elevation 5969 ft.
-- Sardine Canyon - whose name has been given to
the passageway from Cache County to Box Elder County.
-- Dry Lake or
'sink hole' - elevation 5647 ft. where the U.S. Hwy. crosses this low
spot.
-- Pine Canyon
-- Box Elder Peak - elevation 9372 ft. is the
highest point in the Wellsville Mountains
-- Wide Canyon
--
Rattlesnake Canyon
-- Narrow Canyon
-- Stoddard Canyon
--
Silver Mine Hollow
-- Wellsville Canyon
-- Snow Canyon
-- Black
Peak - elevation 7726 ft.
-- Sardine Summit - elevation 5969 ft.
-- Sardine Canyon - whose name has been given to the passageway from
Cache County to Box Elder County
-- Dry Lake or 'sink hole' -
elevation 5647 ft. where the U.S. Hwy. crosses this low spot.
White Horse Village
Wide Hollow -
Young Ward - a small farming community adjacent to
College Ward and named for President Brigham Young and his church farm
endowment for the establishment of a college which included this area.
The first census to mention the place was taken in 1940 and registered
194 residents.
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