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Begin your virtual tour of Blanding, Utah by clicking on any of the above entry points,
and follow roads or trails through a network of linked images.
Bluff is located in the rugged country in the southeast corner of Utah. Sitting at 6,100 feet on White Mesa, the horizon is dominated by the Blue Mountains (also called the Abajo Mountains), which lie just to the north. From Blanding the ground slopes steadily upward to forested slopes of the mountains. White Mesa extends several miles south of Blanding, surrounded on both sides by steep drops. The surrounding country is uninhabited, scored by deep canyons and chasms and cliffs.
Blanding was settled in the first years of the 1900s. A canal was layed out in 1902 to provide irrigation water from the Blue Mountains and families of Mormon pioneers began arriving a couple years later. At first the settlement was known as Grayson, but it was changed by the Postal Service to Blanding in 1915, to the chagrin of the residents.
The last Indian uprising of the west occurred near Blanding in 1923 led by Ute chief "Old Posey."
U.S. Highway 191 passes through Blanding, leading to Monticello on the north, and Bluff to the south. The population, as of the year 2000, was 3,162.
Streets and other things you can see.
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