Arizona Gazetteer
Paria River is a physical feature (stream) in Coconino County. The primary coordinates for Paria River places it within the AZ 86036 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Paria River |
| Category: | Arizona physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | Heads in Utah, flows SSE to the Colorado River. |
| History: | John Wesley Powell applied the name Pa-ria River to the stream and reported that is was a Ute word meaning 'water muddy'. Almon Harris Thompson had reported naming the stream 'Pahreah River'. In Piute, it means 'water, elk', apparently for the elk which flourished along the stream before 1850. Father Escalante had called the stream Rio Santa Teresa (Granger, Byrd H., Arizona's Names (X Marks the Place), p. 463). |
| County: | Coconino County |
| Latitude: | 36.8585987 |
| Longitude: | -111.6007163 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Paria River: Paria River.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Paria River does not include property ownership information.
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Page, AZ
(8.9 miles ENE) Greenehaven, AZ (9.7 miles NNE) |
Big Water, UT
(15.9 miles NNW) Bitter Springs, AZ (16.2 miles S) |
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Chair Crossing, AZ
(1.4 miles NNE) Marble Canyon, AZ (3.6 miles SW) |
Wahweap, AZ
(11.4 miles NNE) |
