Bothwell, Utah

Bothwell, Utah
Unincorporated community
Bothwell, Utah, and the Bear River Valley
Bothwell Location within the state of Utah
Coordinates: 41°42′30″N 112°15′30″W / 41.70833°N 112.25833°WCoordinates: 41°42′30″N 112°15′30″W / 41.70833°N 112.25833°W
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Box Elder
Settled	1894
Incorporated	1937
Disincorporated	1967
Founded by	William H. Rowe
Named for	John R. Bothwell
Elevation[1]	4,331 ft (1,320 m)
Time zone	Mountain (MST) (UTC-7)
• Summer (DST)	MDT (UTC-6)
GNIS feature ID	1425891[1]

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

Bothwell is an unincorporated community in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

Located on highway U-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

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bothwell, Utah. Retrieved on May 18, 2011.
2. "Census of Population and Housing". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
3. Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press. p. 45. ISBN 0-87480-345-4.
4. The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine