Camp Spring (Washington County, Utah)

{{Short description|Spring in Washington County, Utah, US}} {{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} '''Camp Spring''' is a spring in Washington County, Utah. It lies at an elevation of {{convert|3,435|ft|m|abbr=off|disp=x|/|sp=us}} in the reservation of the Shivwits Band of Paiutes.<ref>{{GNIS|1426312|Camp Spring}}</ref>

==History== Camp Spring was a campsite for travelers on the wagon route of the Mormon Road between Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and Los Angeles, California–first mentioned in the itinerary of the Mormon Waybill published in 1851.<ref name=Waybill>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eTW0_PLn7QcC&pg=PA321 LeRoy Reuben Hafen, Ann Woodbury Hafen, Journals of Forty-niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: with Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others, U of Nebraska Press, 1954, pp.321-324 Mormon Waybill, Joseph Cain and A. C. Brower, Salt Lake City, 1851. Road distances from readings of rodeometer attached to the wagon of Addison Pratt of the 1849 Jefferson Hunt Wagon Train.]</ref> It may have first been a stop on the Armijo route of the Old Spanish Trail, the spring being along the Calabacillas Arroyo (Little wild squash arroyo, so named by Antonio Armijo), that lead up to Utah Hill Summit, where the old trail and later the road passed over the Beaver Dam Mountains from the Santa Clara River to the Virgin River at what is now Littlefield, Arizona.<ref name=ArmijosJournal>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3816035 LeRoy R. Hafen and Antonio Armijo, Armijo's Journal, Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, (Nov., 1947), pp. 87-101, University of California Press, DOI: 10.2307/3816035] from jstor.org accessed 10/28/2015</ref><ref>[http://www.oldspanishtrail.org/assets/downloads/Armijo1830SpanishDiaryUNMRoneyDec09.pdf. Diario que formo yo el ciudando Antonio Armijo, como comandante, para el descubrimiento del camino para el punto de las Californias (Diary made by citizen Antonio Armijo as commandant for the discovery of the route to the Californias), Registro Oficial, Del Gobierno De Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Ano 1, Tom. II., Sabado 19 de Junio de 1830, Num. 54., pp 205-206]</ref>

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Category:Bodies of water of Washington County, Utah Category:Pre-statehood history of Utah Category:Former populated places in Washington County, Utah Category:Old Spanish Trail (trade route) Category:Mormon Road Category:Springs of Utah