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Bothwell, Utah

Unincorporated community in the state of Utah, United States

Unincorporated community in Utah, United States

41°42′30″N 112°15′30″W / 41.70833°N 112.25833°W / 41.70833; -112.25833CountryUnited StatesStateUtahCountyBox ElderSettled1894Incorporated1937Disincorporated1967Founded byWilliam H. RoweNamed forJohn R. BothwellElevation

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4,331 ft (1,320 m)Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MDT)GNIS feature ID1425891^[1]

Bothwell is an unincorporated community in the Bear River Valley in eastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States.^[1]

Description

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1940	282	—
1950	317	12.4%
1960	302	−4.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau^[2]

Located on highway State Route 102, the community is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of Tremonton and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Thatcher.

Bothwell was founded as a farming community in 1894. It was originally named Rowville, after Mormon pioneer William H. Rowe.^[3] It was renamed Bothwell in 1918, to honor the builders of the Bothwell Canal, a project that aided farming in the area by bringing irrigation water from the Bear River. John R. Bothwell was president of the waterworks at that time.^[4]

Bothwell voted to incorporate as a town in 1937, in order to issue municipal bonds to develop the culinary water system. It was disincorporated sometime in the 1960s.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Bothwell". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 8, 2006. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
^ Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names: A Compilation. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-87480-345-7. OCLC 797284427. Retrieved March 10, 2018.
^ The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine