Utah
Castle Dale (Cottonwood Creek, Castle Valley)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Sea potteryAlso reported: Early-1900s valley-town refuse: local bottling and druggist glass, mercantile and ranch-supply debris, and Cottonwood Creek bank and back-lot dumps behind the blocks on the 1917 sheet, with older 1880s settlement material possible on the creek bottoms..
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Why this spot
1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On Cottonwood Creek in Castle Valley, in the San Rafael and Green River country of Emery County
Emery County seat on a Castle Valley creek; confirmed Sanborn coverage begins 1917, so deposits skew early twentieth century, with the creek bottoms the best older ground.
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