Timpanogos River from: Utah Place Names TIMPANOGOS RIVER (Utah County). See Provo River below. PROVO RIVER (Utah County, Wasatch County) originates at Washington Lake in the west Uinta Mountains. It drains southwest into Utah Lake. The river had the early name of Timpanogotzis (Tumpanowach) for the Indians living along its banks. The early white settlers decided to name the river after Proveau and transfer the old name to the mountain to the north, which became Mount Timpanogos. See Provo* (Utah County) below. PROVO* (Utah County) is on I-15, forty-five miles south of Salt Lake City*. It was founded in 1850 as Fort Utah* in honor of the Ute Indians who inhabited the region. The name was changed to Fort Provo* for the well-known French-Canadian trapper, Etienne Proveau (Provost, Provot, Provaux, etc.), who first arrived in 1825. Proveau and his men had an altercation with the local Indians under Bad Gocha and several whites and Indians were killed. This incident led to the area being called Proveau's Hole and to the city eventually being named Provo. >T6,7S,R2,3E,SLM; 4,549' (1,387m). Bibliography: Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of Utah, 1540-1886. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1964. (1st ed. 1889). Brigham Young, the Colonizer. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1940. 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. Miller, Marilyn McMeen and J. C. Moffitt. Provo, A Story of People in Motion. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1974. 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. Utah Historical Quarterly. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society. (v36,42). Young, Levi Edgar. The Founding of Utah. San Francisco: Charles Scribners Sons, 1923. 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. USE RESTRICTIONS... The contents of this article may be repurposed for non-commercial, non-profit, educational use. _____________________________________________________________________ Distributed by the Utah Education Network eMedia service: http://www.uen.org/emedia Original digital conversion by UCME: Utah Collections Multimedia Encyclopedia project: http://www.uen.org/ucme File ID = t_005213 A softbound copy of the original book may be purchased online from the University of Utah Press at: http://www.uofupress.com Page 1.