Mammoth Valley
Encyclopedia
Mammoth Valley is a depression
in Southern Utah
between Hatch
and Duck Creek. The Mammoth Creek
flows along its floor.
in nearby Duck Creek were promised parcels in the valley. Several families built temporary residences and brought in mobile homes. During the winter of 1993, record snowfall crushed the poorly-supported residences, and the families who sought to build the community left.
On January 24, 1994, the Utah Division of Real Estate
ordered Meadeau View to stop marketing the Mammoth land, as the offering had not been registered with the division.
Depression (geology)
A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms.Structural or tectonic related:...
in Southern Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
between Hatch
Hatch, Utah
Hatch is a town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. The population was 127 at the 2000 census. It is approximately 217 miles from Salt Lake City.-Geography:...
and Duck Creek. The Mammoth Creek
Mammoth Creek
Mammoth Creek is a Utah creek which flows for over 20 miles through mountains and forests from Mammoth Summit , through the Mammoth Valley, to its confluence with the Sevier River . The creek contains wild brown trout and hatchery rainbow trout.-External links:*...
flows along its floor.
History
Mammoth Valley was the site of a planned constitutionalist community in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Investors in the project and donors to the Meadeau View InstituteMeadeau View Institute
The Meadeau View Institute was a conservative constitutionalist organization that operated in Duck Creek, Utah, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The institute was notable for seeking to build a Utopian community of alternative-lifestyle conservatives in Southern Utah...
in nearby Duck Creek were promised parcels in the valley. Several families built temporary residences and brought in mobile homes. During the winter of 1993, record snowfall crushed the poorly-supported residences, and the families who sought to build the community left.
On January 24, 1994, the Utah Division of Real Estate
Government of Utah
The government of Utah is republican, with "the powers of government being divided into three distinct departments, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial" each department having specific functions and responsibilities under the Utah Constitution....
ordered Meadeau View to stop marketing the Mammoth land, as the offering had not been registered with the division.