Utah is a state like no other because it boasts everything you can imagine. From luxurious hotels to modest farm houses, urban centers to barren deserts, valleys to mountains, this state has it all.
History
In 1830, a man named Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon. This book was about Mormonism, a new denomination of Christianity. Joseph Smith also founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1830 after he had a vision of it on a hillside. Early Mormon followers in Upstate New York practiced polygamy, which is when …show more content…
2,755 square miles of the total size of Utah is water. 39.3210° North, 111.0937° West are the geographical coordinates of the state of Utah. The two longest rivers in Utah are the Colorado and Green River. There are 647 lakes in Utah, with the Great Salt Lake being the largest. Salt Lake City is the capital city of the state and has the highest population. No parts of Utah border the ocean, and the western part of the state is in the Great Basin. The Great Basin is the largest endorheic watershed, which means no water in the Great Basin flows out to the ocean. The Basin Range and Province is a region that spans from Oregon to Texas. It is a mountainous region, but also consist of many valleys, too. At the eastern edge of the Great Basin Range and Province, the Rocky Mountains rise up. The Wasatch Mountain Range separates the Great Basin Range and Province and the Colorado Plateau. Many parts of Utah lay on top of the Colorado Plateau. Deborah Kent in Utah wrote, “From the point where the Four Corners (A place where 4 states touch: NM, UT, CO, AZ) meet, the Colorado Plateau reaches out into Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. If you picture a diagonal line from Utah’s southwestern corner to the northeast, most of the state below that line is in the Colorado Plateau region. This is Utah’s biggest land region, covering nearly half of its area,” (Kent, 2009). The average elevation of Utah is 6,100 feet, but the highest point is 13,528 feet above sea level at Kings Peak in Duchesne County. The lowest elevation point in Utah is actually a high elevation compared to other states. The lowest elevation is 2,180 feet above sea level at Beaver Dam Wash in Washington County. Utah borders Nevada on it’s west side and Colorado on it’s east side. New Mexico is by Utah’s southern border, Idaho on Utah’s northern border, and Wyoming in the cutout second section of