Bunkerville, a small town of about 200 inhabitants, lies just over the rim of the Great Basin on the southern bank of the Virgin River, at a point about 30 miles above the place where that stream enters the Colorado. It is surrounded on all sides by miles of chaparral and cactus covered desert, rolling rocky hills on the south lead to a range of mountains about 12 miles away and on the north a range of sand hills stretch away to a table land of desert. The altitude of the valley is 1000 feet; the climate is extremely dry and arid. It rains very seldom; a snow fall is an event of a life-time. The climate is very warm. As one old settler said, “We have nine months of summer and three of pleasant weather.” The thermometer frequently registers from 109 to 115 in the summer and has been...
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April 01 2024
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Juanita Brooks; The History of Bunkerville. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 April 2024; 92 (2): 131–139. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.92.2.04
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