La Verkin, Utah
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JacobBarlow
N 37° 11.465 W 113° 16.626
12S E 297886 N 4118498
La Verkin is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,392 at the 2000 census. It is thought that the name 'La Verkin' is a corruption of the Spanish pronunciation of 'La Virgen.'
Waymark Code: WM2PFX
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 12/01/2007
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La Verkin is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,392 at the 2000 census. It is thought that the name 'La Verkin' is a corruption of the Spanish pronunciation of 'La Virgen.' The town of La Verkin is situated on the Virgin River, which was named by Spanish missionaries in the 1700s. When the Mormon settlers established their village on the river in the late 1800s, they matched their town's name, more or less homophonically, to the Spanish name of the river.
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