Henry's Fork
| Henry's Fork | ||
 The mouth of the Henry Fork in the Flaming Gorge reservoir |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 1454333 | |
| location | Utah and Wyoming , USA | |
| River system | Colorado River | |
| Drain over | Green River → Colorado River → Gulf of California | |
| source | in the Uinta Mountains 40 ° 47 ′ 37 ″ N , 110 ° 24 ′ 31 ″ W |
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| muzzle | near Manila in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in the Green River Coordinates: 40 ° 59 ′ 55 ″ N , 109 ° 39 ′ 11 ″ W 40 ° 59 ′ 55 ″ N , 109 ° 39 ′ 11 ″ W
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| length | 90 km | |
The Henrys Fork (German: Henrys (river) arm) is a tributary of the Green River with a length of 90 km (56 miles) in the north of the US state of Utah and in the south of Wyoming .
course
It rises in the Uinta Mountains on the slopes of Mount Red Castle (3940 m) in Summit County , Utah and flows in a northeasterly direction into Uinta County , Wyoming through the area of Lonetree , where it turns east. It crosses the border into Sweetwater County , Wyoming, where it flows through McKinnon and flows into the Green River just beyond the border with Daggett County , Utah at an altitude of 1,842 m near Manila in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir .
history
The river is named after Andrew Henry , a fur trader in the early 19th century . In 1825 the first of the annual trappers and fur traders' trade meetings of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company , the company of William Henry Ashley (Andrew Henry's former partner), took place on the banks of the river in what is now McKinnon . In addition, all of the company's famous mountain men , such as Thomas Fitzpatrick , Jedediah Smith , Jim Bridger , William Sublette and his brother Milton , David E. Jackson , Etienne Provost and James P. Beckwourth, came together, delivered the beaver pelts , were paid for and bought from the proceeds the barter goods and equipment for the next year. Ninety-one trappers from the company's own company came, Indians of various races such as Cheyenne and Crow and even fur hunters from the British Hudson's Bay Company who broke their contracts and sold their skins to the Americans. The meeting turned into a great celebration and established this settlement under the name Rendezvous for the following years.