Bothwell is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Box Elder County

Box Elder County, Utah

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, Utah

Utah

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, United States

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Located on highway U-102, the community is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of Tremonton

Tremonton, Utah

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 and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Thatcher

Thatcher, Utah

Thatcher is a census-designated place in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is a small farming community, located southwest of Bothwell and west of Tremonton. The population was 789 at the 2010 census....

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Bothwell was founded as a farming community in 1894. It was originally named Rowville, after Mormon pioneer

Mormon Pioneer

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 William H. Rowe. It was renamed Bothwell in 1918, to honor the builders of the Bothwell Canal, a project that aided farming in the area by bringing irrigation

Irrigation

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 water from the Bear River

Bear River (Utah)

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. John R. Bothwell was president of the waterworks at that time.

Bothwell voted to incorporate

Incorporated town

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 as a town in 1937, in order to issue municipal bond

Municipal bond

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s to develop the culinary water system. It was disincorporated sometime in the 1960s.