Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo-Oremmetropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt Lake. Evaporation accounts for 42% of the outflow of the lake, which leaves the lake slightlysaline. The elevation of the lake is legally at 4,489 feet (1,368 m) above sea level.
The first European to see Utah Lake was Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalantein 1776. He stayed with the Timpanogots band of Ute Tribe for three days. The Timpanogots were later moved out or integrated with theMormon settlers between the 1850s and 1870s. The fish of the lake wereoverharvested by the settlers and restocked with non-native species. Source: Wikipedia
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