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4 unusual facts about Sanpete County


Brooke C. Wells

She owns several horses that she houses in Salt Lake County for the warmer times of the year and Sanpete County for the more drastic temperatures and weather of winter months.

Sanpete County, Utah

Alfalfa fields and other animal feed crops make up the bulk of the agricultural activity and economy of the county.

Over the course of the 19th Century, many of the settlers came from Scandinavian countries, as documented in the Saga of the Sanpitch.

It was possibly named for the Ute chief Sanpitch, which was corrupted to Sanpete (but often incorrectly written as "San Pete").


Orange Seely

In October 1875 scarcity of feed for their livestock sent Orange Seely and a company of men from Sanpete County with a herd of United Order stock Eastward through Cottonwood Canyon to the Castle Dale/Orangeville area.

Packera musiniensis

It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where it is known only from Sanpete County in the Manti-La Sal National Forest.


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