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The Sevier River (suh-VEER) is a river, approximately 280 mi (450 km) long, in southwestern Utah in the United States . It drains an extended chain of farming valleys in the mountains separated by narrow canyons, emerging into the desert of western Utah to empty into the intermittent Sevier Lake . DESCRIPTION The river drains an area of 5,500 square miles (14,245 square km), forming a large horseshoe in southern Utah. It is the longest river entirely within the state. It rises in northwestern Kane County along the western side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau , and flows northward into Garfield County through an extended valley beside the plateau past Hatch and Panguitch . Along the Garfield- Piute county line it descends through the narrow 5 mi (8 km) Circleville Canyon , emerging into a second valley southwest of Junction , where it receives the East Fork from the east and passes through the Piute Reservoir . It flows north across Piute County to Marysvale then descends through 8 mi (13 km) Sevier Canyon , emerging south of Sevier . It then flows northeast past Richfield and Salina . Approximately 20 mi (32 km) southwest of Nephi it turns west, flowing around the north end of the Canyon Mountains into the Sevier Desert , flowing southwest past Delta and into Sevier Lake in central Millard County , along the western side of the Cricket Mountains . It is impounded in southwestern Juab County at the north end of the valley to form the 20-mi (32 km) long Sevier Bridge Reservoir . The river is used extensively for Irrigation in its upper valley in the mountains, resulting in a severe diminishing of the level of Sevier Lake, such that it is now essentially dry. The watershed demarcates the southeastern edge of the Great Basin . The river was known to the Paiute who inhabited the region as ''Seve'uu''. It was named "Rio Severo" (wild river) by early Spanish explorers. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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