Blacks Fork (also referred to as Blacks Fork of the Green River) is a tributary of the Green River in Utah and Wyoming. The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. The State of Wyoming ( is a sparsely populated state in the western region of the United States. The river rises on the northern side of the Uinta Mountains as three streams draining the area around Tokewanna Peak near the Utah-Wyoming border. The Uinta Mountains (juːˈɪntə are a high chain of mountains in northeastern Utah and extreme northwestern Colorado in the United States Right as the river crosses the Wyoming border, it flows into used for irrigation and flood control[1]. From there river flows through the town of Lyman before joining with the Smiths Fork, which forms just east of the Blacks Fork in the Unitas, and parallels it for most of its course. Lyman is a town in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1938 at the 2000 census. The river continues northeast to Granger, where the river meets the Hams Fork from the north, Shortly thereafter the river makes a sharp turn south, eventually joining the Green River at Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Granger is a town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States. Flaming Gorge Reservoir is a reservoir in Wyoming and Utah, on the Green River, created by the Flaming Gorge Dam.
History
In 1843 mountain man Jim Bridger and his partner Louis Vasquez constructed a trading post on the Blacks Fork, located near present day Lyman, known later as Fort Bridger. James or Jim Bridger (March 1804 &ndash July 17 1881 was among the foremost mountain men, trappers scouts and guides who explored and trapped the Western Pierre Louis Vasquez ( October 3, 1798 &ndash September 5, 1868) was a Mountain man and trader. Lyman is a town in Uinta County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1938 at the 2000 census. Fort Bridger was a 19th century fur trading outpost established in 1842 on Blacks Fork of the Green River The post soon became a popular stop along the Oregon and California trails and later marked the point at which the Mormon Trail left the other two and continued into Utah. Pioneers traveled across the Oregon Trail, one of the main overland migration routes on the North American Continent, in wagons in order to settle new parts of the The California Trail was a major overland Emigrant route across the Western United States from Missouri to California in the middle 19th The Mormon The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States.
References
- ^ Lyman Project. Bureau of Reclamation.
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