Moab, Utah
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Moab, Utah Location in Grand County and the state of Utah Location in Grand County and the state of Utah Named for Moab Moab is a town/city on the southern edge of Grand County in easterly Utah in the United States.
The populace was 5,046 at the 2010 census, and in 2015 the populace was estimated to be 5,235. It is the governmental center of county and biggest city in Grand County. Moab attracts a large number of tourists every year, mostly visitors to the close-by Arches and Canyonlands nationwide parks.
The town is a prominent base for mountain bikers who ride the extensive network of trails including the Slickrock Trail, and for off-roaders who come for the annual Moab Jeep Safari. Native American petroglyphs southwest of Moab Potash mine and evaporation ponds (blue) near Moab in 2011.
Mill, Moab, about 1960s.
The Biblical name Moab refers to an region of territory located on the easterly side of the Jordan River.
Some historians believe the town/city in Utah came to use this name because of William Pierce, the first postmaster, believing that the biblical Moab and this part of Utah were both "the far country".:16 However, the rest believe the name has Paiute origins, referring to the word moapa, meaning "mosquito". Some of the area's early inhabitants attempted to change the city's name, because in the Christian Bible, Moabites are demeaned as incestuous and idolatrous.
During the reconstructionbetween 1829 and the early 1850s, the region around what is now Moab served as the Colorado River crossing along the Old Spanish Trail.
Moab was incorporated as a town on December 20, 1902. The rail line did not pass through Moab, instead passing through the suburbs of Thompson Springs and Cisco, 40 miles (64 km) to the north. Later, other places to cross the Colorado were constructed, such as Lee's Ferry, Navajo Bridge and Boulder Dam.
These shifts shifted the trade routes away from Moab.
Moab farmers and merchants had to adapt from trading with passing passengers to shipping their goods to distant markets. Soon Moab's origins as one of the several natural crossings of the Colorado River were forgotten. Nevertheless, the U.S.
Military deemed the bridge over the Colorado River at Moab meaningful enough to place it under guard as late as World War II. In 1943, a former Civilian Conservation Corps camp outside Moab was used to confine Japanese American internees labeled "troublemakers" by authorities in the War Relocation Authority, the government body responsible for overseeing the state of war incarceration program. The Moab Isolation Center for "noncompliant" Japanese Americans was created in response to burgeoning resistance to WRA policies inside the camps; a December 1942 clash between guards and inmates known as the "Manzanar Riot," in which two were killed and ten injured, was the final push. On January 11, 1943, the sixteen men who had initiated the two-day protests were transferred to Moab from the town jails where they were booked (without charges or access to hearings) after the riot.
Having closed just fifteen months before , all 18 military-style structures of the CCC camp were in good condition, and the site was converted to its new use with minimal renovation. 150 military police guarded the camp, and director Raymond Best and head of security Francis Frederick presided over administration. On February 18, thirteen transfers from Gila River, Arizona, were brought to Moab, and six days later, ten more appeared from Manzanar.
Most of these new arrivals were removed from the general camp populace because of their resistance to the WRA's attempts to determine the loyalty of incarcerated Japanese Americans, met largely with confusion and anger because of a lack of explanation as to how and why internees would be assessed. The Moab Isolation Center remained open until April 27, when most of its inmates were bused to the larger and more secure Leupp Isolation Center.
(Five men, serving sentences in the Grand County Jail after protesting conditions in Moab, were transported to Leupp in a five-by-six-foot box on the back of a truck.
Their separate transfer was arranged by Francis Frederick, who had also handed down their prison sentences, using a law he later rescinded to charge them with unlawful assembly.) In 1994, the "Dalton Wells CCC Camp/Moab Relocation Center" was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and, although no marker exists on the site, an knowledge plaque at the current site entrance and a photograph on display at the Dan O'Laurie Museum in Moab mention the former isolation center. County-sponsored sign promoting manufacturing in Moab amid the early 1970s Moab's economy was originally based on agriculture, but gradually shifted to mining.
Uranium and vanadium were identified in the region in the 1910s and 1920s. Potash and manganese came next, and then petroleum and gas were identified. In the 1950s Moab became the so-called "Uranium Capital of the World" after geologist Charles Steen found a rich deposit of uranium ore south of the city. This discernment coincided with the advent of the era of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the United States, and Moab's boom years began.
The town/city population interval almost 500% over the next several years, bringing the populace to near 6,000 citizens .
With the winding down of the Cold War, Moab's uranium boom was over, and the city's populace drastically declined.
In 1949, Western movie director John Ford was persuaded to use the region for the movie Wagon Master. Ford had been using the region in Monument Valley around Mexican Hat, Utah, south of Moab, since he filmed Stagecoach there 10 years earlier in 1939.
A small-town Moab rancher (George White) found Ford and persuaded him to come take a look at Moab. There have been various movies filmed in the region since then, using Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park as backdrops.
Moab is also an increasingly prominent destination for four-wheelers as well as for BASE jumpers and those rigging highlining, who are allowed to practice their sport in the area.
About 16 miles (26 km) south of Moab is the "Hole N' The Rock", a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) 14-room home carved into a modern wall which National Geographic has ranked as one of the top 10 roadside attractions in the United States. Moab's populace swells temporarily in the spring and summer months with the arrival of various citizens working cyclicly in the outside recreation and tourism industries.
In recent years Moab has experienced a surge of second-home owners. The mostly mild winters and appreciateable summers have thriving many citizens to build such homes throughout the area.
Many Moab people are concerned that the town is seeing shifts similar to those experienced in Vail and Aspen in neighboring Colorado: skyrocketing property values, a rising cost of residing, and corresponding effects on small-town low- and middle-income workers. Sunset Magazine's March 2009 copy listed Moab as one of the "20 best small suburbs in the West," a diverse ion corroborated by similar articles in other magazines. Since 2011 Moab has hosted an LGBT Pride festival. The first festival encompassed a march which drew more than 350 citizens .
Moab is just south of the Colorado River, at an altitude of 4,025 feet (1,227 m) on the Colorado Plateau.
Via Utah State Route 128 it is 46 miles (74 km) southwest of Cisco.
The entrance to Arches National Park is 4 miles (6 km) north of Moab on US 191.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.1 square miles (10.7 km2), all land. Moab has an dry climate characterized by hot summers and chilly winters, with rain evenly spread over the year (usually less than one inch per month).
Average annual rain in Moab is 9.02 inches (229 mm).
Climate data for Moab, Utah (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 1.2 .7 .2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .3 1.5 3.9 In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
Delicate Arch in Arches National Park near Moab Moab is known for its opportunities for outside recreation in stunning natural settings; activities encompassed the following: 4x4: Multi-day camping trips in Canyonlands National Park on the White Rim Road, and Extreme 4x4 at Sand Flats Recreation Area among other areas The area's most famous sections of the Colorado are Westwater Canyon which is upstream from Moab and Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park which is downstream.
Road biking: The annual Skinny Tire Festival is held in Moab, including a century ride BASE jumping: Legal in many areas near Moab Hiking and backpacking: Canyonlands National Park, Arches National Park, and thousands of square miles of BLM and nationwide forest lands surround Moab.
Moab is famous for canyoneering, hiking, river rafting, biking, motorcycling, ATV riding, and 4x4 driving.
The Moab region is home to many easy to difficult off-road trails for novice to experienced off-roaders.
Every year the Moab Munifest, one of the biggest mountain unicycling affairs in the world, takes place at Moab.
The following enhance schools serve Moab region pupils: Moab is home to a branch ground of Utah State University.
Prior to the assembly of the barns in 1883, Moab was a strategic place to cross the Colorado River.
A toll ferry service athwart the river ended when a permanent bridge was assembled in 1911. This bridge was replaced with a new bridge in 1955, which was in turn replaced by another new bridge in 2010.
Moab attained freight barns access in 1962, when a spur barns line (now the Union Pacific Railroad's Cane Creek Subdivision) was assembled to serve the Cane Creek potash mine.
Moab has never had traveler rail service, although the California Zephyr has advertised service to Moab in the past via stops at Thompson Springs (no longer a scheduled stop), Green River or Grand Junction, Colorado.
There is everyday bus service between Moab and Salt Lake City. The region around Moab has been used as a shooting locale for film and television.
In the 1995 film Canadian Bacon, Moab is one of the launch locations for American missiles on the Hacker Hellstorm. The course for the pod competitions in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (1999) is a computer-generated imagery montage of Moab region landmarks, including Angel Arch. The 2010 film 127 Hours, based on the true story of Aron Ralston, was shot in the vicinity of Moab.
Moab has also been in a several TV shows, such as: Episode 1 of The Tulse Luper Suitcases is partially set in Moab.
Moab was the setting and inspiration for Steven L.
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