El Vado De Los Padres From: Utah Place Names
El Vado De Los Padres from: Utah Place Names VADO DE LOS PADRES, EL (Kane County, San Juan County). See The Crossing of the Fathers below. CROSSING OF THE FATHERS (Kane County, San Juan County). This famous crossing is now buried under several hundred feet of Lake Powell waters. It was here in November 1776 that the Domínguez and Escalante party finally found a way to cross the Colorado River on their return to New Mexico. The Indians called it Ute Ford and the Spaniards called it El Vado de los Padres. Padre Bay of Lake Powell, which now covers the crossing, was named to honor what used to be the mouth of Padre Creek. >T43S,R5E,SLM. Bibliography: Powell, J. W. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. Warner, Ted J., ed. Dominguez-Escalante Journal. Translated by Fray Angelico Chavez. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1976. 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)].
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