Porterville

Porterville is a monument in Morgan, Utah. Porterville is situated nearby to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as well as near the town Morgan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Porterville and Morgan.

Porterville

Hamlet

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Porterville is an unincorporated community in Morgan County, Utah, United States.

Morgan

Town

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Morgan is a city in and the county seat of Morgan County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area. The area was settled around 1861 and formally incorporated as a city in 1861, and is named after Jedediah Morgan Grant, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Morgan is situated 4 miles north of Porterville.

Porterville

Type: Monument
Inscription: “Porterville was settled by the members of the Porter family. Sanford Porter Jr., while on duty as a scout in 1857-58, rode into a canyon so rocky and difficult to travel that he named it Hardscrabble....”
Category: historic site
Location: Morgan, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.98091° or 40° 58′ 51″ north

Longitude

-111.67817° or 111° 40′ 41″ west

Inception

1986

Operator

Daughters of Utah Pioneers

Open location code

85GCX8JC+9P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 444102735

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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