The Fremont River is a long river in southeastern Utah, United States that flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir, which is located on the Wasatch Plateau near Fish Lake, southeast through Capitol Reef National Park to the Muddy Creek near Hanksville where the two rivers combine to form the Dirty Devil River, a tributary of the Colorado River.
Course
The Johnson Valley Reservoir is fed by Sevenmile Creek (from the north) and Lake Creek (from the southwest). The Fremont River passes through Fremont, Loa, Lyman, Bicknell, Teasdale, and Torrey and provides year-round irrigation for the agricultural lands of Rabbit Valley and Caineville. Then it heads through Hanksville and afterward to its mouth.
Miscellaneous
The Fremont River has a drainage area of fed by spring snowmelt off Thousand Lake Mountain, Boulder Mountain, and the northern
Henry Mountains. The river is named after John Charles Frémont.
It gives its name to the
Fremont culture, a
Precolumbian archaeological culture.
Flow
Flow (ft^3/s), by month (1977–2003), at Bicknell gauging station:
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| January | 85.6 | 54.1 | 145.0 |
| February | 90.9 | 59.7 | 140.0 |
| March | 86.6 | 63.7 | 133.0 |
| April | 89.2 | 66.1 | 131.0 |
| May | 96.2 | 70.0 | 135.0 |
| June | 112.0 | 66.4 | 243.0 |
| July | 119.0 | 63.3 | 412.0 |
| August | 86.4 | 58.7 | 163.0 |
| September | 70.7 | 46.1 | 174.0 |
| October | 67.5 | 50.7 | 135.0 |
| November | 74.2 | 46.3 | 139.0 |
| December | 77.0 | 51.4 | 119.0 |
See also
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List of Utah rivers
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List of tributaries of the Colorado River
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