Utah
Vernal (Ashley Creek in the Green River basin)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: saloon and beer glass, freight- and ranch-supply debris, and Ashley Creek bank and back-lot dumps behind the blocks on the 1910 sheet..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On Ashley Creek in the Uinta Basin, in the Green River drainage
Remote Uinta Basin supply town; confirmed Sanborn coverage begins 1910, so deposits are early twentieth century, with the creek and old freight routes the best older ground.
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