Hanksville

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Hanksville has an elevation of 4,300 ft. It was originally known as Graves Valley after John Graves, who is said to have been a member of the Powell Expedition. Ebenezer Hanks, headed a group of settlers who came in April 1882, and his is where the changed name to Hanksville came from.  The Hanksville community is very self reliant, as they are located an hour from almost anywhere.  The upper grade students are bussed to Bicknell for Middle and High School attendance which is an hour ride.  Hanksville has known a gold boom, uranium boom and is said to be on the verge of an oil boom.  It is the western gateway to Hite, Glen Canyon and Lake Powell and the nearest approach to the Henry Mountains in Garfield County.  The Henry Mountains rise almost 12,000 ft.  On this mountain range is the states only herd of wild buffalo.  The BLM has some of its own offices here.   Rich in folk lure of "Robbers Roost", the Butch Cassidy Gang and the buffalo herd, Wayne County makes the real "Old West" believable again.

This is a view of the small town of Hanksville. The Henry Mountains are in the back ground.

The local store and gas station- Hollow Mountain.

Hollow Mountain store.

One of the local standing rocks. Crow Shit Peak.

Hanksville is surrounded by sedimentary formations from the remains of what once was an ocean.

Blue clay formations surround Hanksville.

Old cabin near the diversion damn.

Clay rock cabin.

There is a diversion damn above town on the Fremont River

Part of the old Highway 24 bridge still remains.

A new project in the Hanksville area is the building of a Mars station.

This is a prototype that will some day land on Mars.

Mars Station.

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This is a view of the small town of Hanksville. The Henry Mountains are in the back ground.

 

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