Peteetneet Creek from: Place Names

PETEETNEET CREEK (Utah County) originates northeast of Mount Nebo. It drains down Payson Canyon into Utah Lake. Chief Peteetneet was a friendly Indian who camped on the creek with his people. He died near Camp Floyd in January 1862. See Payson* below. >S14,T20S,R2E,SLM (at head). Bibliography: Our Pioneer Heritage, 17 vols. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. (v6). Utah, A Guide to the State. Work Projects Administration. Comp. by Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, Salt Lake County Commission. New York: Hastings House, 1941. Young, Levi Edgar. The Founding of Utah. : Charles Scribners Sons, 1923. U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Decision List, No. 6803.

PAYSON* (Utah County) is near I-15 and US-91, thirteen miles south of Provo*. An early name was Peteetneet* or Fort Peteetneet* for Chief Peteetneet and his people, who camped on the site at Peteetneet Creek. James Pace, John Courtland, A. J. Stewart, their families, and other Mormon pioneers settled there in 1850 and for a while after March 1851 the settlement was known as Pacen*. Pacen was changed to Payson when the town was incorporated on January 21, 1853, under Utah territorial law. >S8,9,16,17,T9S,R2E,SLM; 4,648' (1,417m). Bibliography: Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of Utah, 1540-1886. : Bookcraft, 1964. (1st ed. 1889). Our Pioneer Heritage, 17 vols. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. (v5,17). Dixon, Madoline Cloward. Peteetneet Town: A History of Payson, Utah. Provo, UT: Press Publishing Co., 1974. Huff, Emma N., comp. Memories That Live: Utah County Centennial History. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1947. Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Co., 1941. Layton, Stanford J. "Fort Rawlins, Utah: A Question of Mission and Means." Utah Historical Quarterly 42 (Winter 1974): 68-83. Writers' Program. Origins of Utah Place Names. 3d ed. Comp. and written by Utah Writers Project, Work Projects Administration. Sponsored and published by Utah State Department of Public Instruction. Salt Lake City, 1940. Utah, A Guide to the State. Work Projects Administration. Comp. by Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, Salt Lake County Commission. New York: Hastings House, 1941.

EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS... 1. An asterisk (*) following a place name indicates past or present inhabitation. 2. When a series of letters and numbers are present towards the end of an entry after the ">" symbol, the first group indicates section/township/range as closely as can be pinpointed (i.e., S12,T3S,R4W,SLM, or USM). A section equals approximately one square mile, reflecting U.S. Geological Survey topographic map sections. Because Utah is not completely mapped, some entries are incomplete. In this case, whatever information is available will be provided. The second group, when present, is altitude in feet followed by meters in parentheses [i.e., 6,000' (1,829m)]. Altitude is not included with canyons or deserts with varying altitudes.

______SOURCE... Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah. University of Utah Press, 1990.

AUTHOR... Van Cott, John W.

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