HUNTINGTON NORTH
Four agencies, four names, and none of them agree
Two Utah state agencies use the string "Huntington Reservoir" for this water. Three more use it for a lake in another county, two thousand seven hundred feet higher. Every one of them is current.
This reservoir does not have a name. It has four. Every one of them is used by a government body with authority over some part of it, and they do not agree.
| Name | Who uses it |
|---|---|
| Huntington North Reservoir | Reclamation , the soil conservation service , the fishing guidebook , and the water quality rule |
| Huntington Reservoir | Utah State Parks, on the park's own page , and Utah's environmental quality department, on its monitoring page |
| Huntington Lake | The geographic names system , the national hydrography dataset , and the watershed boundary dataset |
| Huntington North | The Army Corps of Engineers, in the national dam inventory |
And there is no geographic names record for "Huntington North Reservoir" at all. The names system carries three Utah features matching the string: feature 1434738, Huntington Lake, which is this water; feature 1428947, Huntington Reservoir, which is the Sanpete one; and feature 1434742, a two and a half acre pond in Emery County also called Huntington Reservoir . The dam inventory is no easier: query it for every dam in the country whose name contains the string untington and twenty come back, six of them in Utah, two of which are these two reservoirs . A page citing a names record for "Huntington North Reservoir" would be citing something that does not exist. A page filtering by county to avoid the Sanpete confusion lands on the pond.
Nearly everything written about this reservoir says it impounds Huntington Creek. It does not. It sits beside the creek in a bowl of its own and is filled by a ditch. Three federal records say so independently, and a fourth proves it arithmetically.
- Reclamation, on how water gets in: "A short distance below this juncture, water is released from North Ditch into the Huntington North Reservoir" . North Ditch is the structure that diverts from Huntington Creek.
- The dam inventory's own watercourse field reads "Huntington Creek - Offstream" . The Corps says offstream in plain text.
- The hydrography dataset flags the water body off network, a single integer that separates an impoundment from an off channel storage pond .
- The arithmetic. The dam inventory gives this dam a drainage area of 2.3 square miles . Huntington Creek two miles upstream drains 187 . A dam across the creek would carry the creek's number.
Reclamation puts the reservoir in a sentence with three structures, not one: "Huntington North Reservoir, created by Huntington North Dam and by the East and West Dikes, has a total capacity of 5,420 acre-feet and a surface area of 242 acres" . Two dikes and a dam. The service canal that empties it heads at the East Dike.
Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers both publish a coordinate for Huntington North Dam. They are not the same coordinate and they are not close.
| Source | Latitude | Longitude | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reclamation | 39.34173 | -110.94749 | The dam |
| The dam inventory | 39.34518 | -110.94239 | The dam |
| The gauge station | 39.34275 | -110.94355 | The storage station |
| The names system | 39.34636 | -110.94807 | The water body |
| Recreation.gov | 39.34733 | -110.94526 | The state park |
583 metres between the two dam points. Reclamation's falls essentially on the southern edge of the water body, which is where a main dam across the south end would be. The inventory's falls inside the eastern part of it, which is where the East Dike would be. That is a hypothesis, not a finding, and this page does not choose between the two coordinates.
| Measure | Reclamation | The dam inventory |
|---|---|---|
| Structural height | 85 ft | 74 ft |
| Hydraulic height | 59.1 ft | 59 |
| Crest length | 2,897 ft at elevation 5,845 | 2,897 |
| Capacity | 5,420 acre feet, total | 5,420 normal, 5,690 maximum, headline storage field empty |
| Surface area | 242 acres | Empty |
| Drainage area | not published | 2.3 square miles |
| Purpose | irrigation storage | Irrigation |
The two agencies agree on the crest to the foot and disagree on the height by eleven feet. Both are printed above and neither is preferred here. The hydraulic height, which is the one they do agree on, is a dam dimension: it is the normal operating depth at the dam, not a measurement of the deepest point of the reservoir.
Two things in the inventory record are worth naming as absences. The maximum discharge field reads 100 cubic feet a second and the record does not say whether that is a spillway or an outlet figure; the spillway width and outlet gate fields are both empty . No spillway or outlet capacity for this dam is published by anyone, so no such number appears on this page.
The county is Emery. The town is Huntington. The creek is Huntington Creek. The canyon is Huntington Canyon. There are two reservoirs called Huntington something and a set of ponds on the community fishing list called Huntington Game Farm Ponds .
And the Emery County Sheriff who gave the public statement after the 2025 drowning at this reservoir is named Tyson Huntington .
A bowl beside a creek, classified for warm water fish
The only 3B water in the Emery County table, an outline that agrees with the federal one to 1.7 percent, and a single gauge whose station code is two transposed letters away from a different reservoir.
The shape in the header is traced from the Fathom print artwork for this series. Before using it, it had to be checked against the federal outline, and on this page that check had a second job: it also had to prove the artwork traces the right Huntington.
| Measure | The traced outline | The federal outline | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long axis against width | 0.8217 | 0.8360 | 1.70% |
| Share of its bounding box | 0.652 | 0.646 | 0.9% |
| Area, matched on length | 182.6 acres | 183.8 acres | 0.7% under |
| Area, matched on width | 188.9 acres | 183.8 acres | 2.8% over |
1.70 percent on the aspect ratio is the second closest agreement in this series. And the check validates itself: adding up the federal polygon by hand gives 0.7438 square kilometres against the 0.744 the dataset publishes, which is agreement to two hundredths of one percent. The arithmetic is right, so the disagreement above is a real difference between two drawings of the same lake, not an error in the measuring.
This is a fat lake, and that is unusual here. It fills nearly two thirds of its own bounding box. Causey, built two pages ago, fills a tenth. A reservoir made by damming a canyon is a thin branching thing; a reservoir dug beside a creek and filled by a ditch is a bowl. The shape is the evidence of the off channel design.
Utah classifies every named water for the uses it is protected for. Huntington North reads 2A, 3B, 4 . The Emery County table holds six waters, in this order:
| Water | Classes | |
|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Reservoir | 2B, 3A, 4 | |
| Electric Lake | 2B, 3A, 4 | Twenty three miles up the same drainage |
| Huntington Reservoir | 2B, 3A, 4 | The Sanpete one, filed in the Emery table |
| Huntington North Reservoir | 2A, 3B, 4 | The only 3B in the table |
| Joes Valley Reservoir | 2A, 3A, 4 | Same recreation tier, different fish tier |
| Millsite Reservoir | 1C, 2A, 3A, 4 | The only one carrying a drinking water class |
Class 3A is cold water game fish and 3B is warm water game fish. Five of the six are 3A. This one is 3B. The state of Utah has classified this reservoir as a warm water fishery in its own water quality rule, and everything else lines up with that: the park calls it "this warm-water reservoir" , and the only fishing rule the state writes for it is a bass limit .
One honest weakness, stated up front rather than buried. This classification rests on a single reproduction of the rule, from a law school library , because Utah's own rules site returns an error for the rule text. It was read twice, separately, and both reads returned the identical six rows in the identical order with the identical class codes, which is a stability check and not a second source. The same weakness was disclosed on the Causey page for the same reason.
Utah's environmental quality department publishes a recreational monitoring page for this water. It is titled "Huntington Reservoir Recreational Monitoring" , and the sampling points it names are "Huntington State Park (south of boat ramp and north of boat ramp, approximately 130 meters and 80 meters respectively)". So the department is sampling at this park and calling the water by the other lake's official name.
The 2025 season, every entry:
| Date | Result |
|---|---|
| 27 May 2025 | E. coli below thresholds |
| 23 June 2025 | E. coli below thresholds |
| 15 July 2025 | E. coli below thresholds |
| 12 August 2025 | E. coli below thresholds |
| 15 September 2025 | E. coli below thresholds |
| 1 November 2025 | Season ended, resuming June or July 2026 |
What is not established, and is therefore not claimed. No approved total maximum daily load names any Huntington water , which is not the same as saying none exists. The impaired waters assessment status was not resolved, so this page says nothing about it either way. No fish consumption advisory names any Huntington water: twelve Utah waters carry one and Electric Lake, twenty three miles up the same drainage, is on the list . And mussel status is unknown: the park offers boat decontamination by appointment , which is the statewide inspection programme and is not evidence about this water.
There is exactly one gauge of any kind on this reservoir: soil conservation service station 09UTHUNT:UT:BOR, at 5,830 feet in Emery County, reporting reservoir contents daily since 29 October 1974 . It carries one element and nothing else.
So what happens if you point a card at the wrong one? Both answers were tested, and they are different.
Ask it for daily and you get a bare empty array, even though the station advertises a daily series running from 1900 to 2100 and flags it not derived . A card written the ordinary way would report a service failure that never happened.
Ask it for monthly and you get a full, healthy record. July 2026 reads 2,387 acre feet . Divide that by this reservoir's 5,420 acre foot capacity and the card says 44 percent, which looks entirely reasonable and is a number about a lake in another county.
The second failure is the dangerous one, and it is the exact shape the Electric Lake card had to be built in, because that station serves an empty daily array too and its card reads monthly out of necessity. This is the third station in this series found advertising a duration it does not serve.
The station serves three durations and they come back in three different shapes. Daily values carry a date string. Monthly values carry integer month and year keys and no date at all. Semimonthly adds a monthPart field which is a quoted string, not a number. Code written for one and pointed at another gets an empty list and reports a timeout that never happened.
The card reads daily, and there is a reason beyond currency: daily is the only duration here flagged not derived. The monthly and semimonthly numbers are computed from it. The card shows an observation, not a calculation.
There is no flow card because there is no flow gauge. Not below the dam, not on the ditch that fills the reservoir, not on the canal it empties into. The nearest continuous record on Huntington Creek is site 09318000, which ran from 3 May 1909 to 4 October 1979 and stopped . A second site downstream stopped on 29 September 2006. The creek that fills this reservoir has not been gauged in forty seven years.
Electric Lake and this reservoir are in the same county on the same creek system, and the relationship is not what it looks like. Working it out from the federal watershed file rather than from a map :
- Electric Lake sits in unit 140600090102, Headwaters Huntington Creek, which drains to 140600090103, then 140600090104, then 140600090107.
- This reservoir sits in unit 140600090105, Huntington Lake-Huntington Creek, which drains directly to 140600090107.
The two chains do not touch until 140600090107. Electric Lake's sub basin does not drain into this one. They converge below both.
The straight line distance is 22.85 miles, computed from the two gauge station coordinates , and the drop is about 2,740 feet from Electric Lake's 8,580 to this reservoir's top of active conservation pool at 5,838 . The Electric Lake page says "roughly thirty miles" and "about 2,700 feet lower". The elevation is right and slightly understated. The thirty miles is unverified rather than wrong: no agency publishes a channel distance for that reach, and thirty channel miles against a 22.85 mile straight line is an ordinary amount of bend for a canyon creek.
Where everything is
Eight places, one of them the same dam twice, one of them a different lake, and not one of them a boat ramp, because no agency publishes where it is.
Utah State Parks describes the water in one sentence : "Cinnamon-colored buttes provide a backdrop for this quiet desert oasis. Popular with locals, this warm-water reservoir is ideal for waterskiing, fishing, and crawdad catching."
| Item | Fee |
|---|---|
| Day use, private vehicle | $10 |
| Day use, walk in or bike | $5 a person |
| Camping, full hookup | $33 |
| Camping, partial hookup | $30 |
| Group pavilion, to 50 people | $50 |
| Boat launch | Not published |
Hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in summer and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in winter, closed Thanksgiving and Christmas . Camping is booked through the reservation system, up to four months ahead and not inside 48 hours. A construction notice on the park page said shower facilities would be closed until 29 August 2026 while new campground amenities went in.
Utah's zoned waters rule has eighteen sections. Section sixteen reads, in full :
"A person may not use a motor with a manufacturer listed horsepower of 10 horsepower or more on Huntington Reservoir."
That is the entire section. It names no county and gives no geographic description. Search for boating rules at this state park and that sentence is what you find.
One. The Forest Service publishes the identical limit for the Sanpete water: "Motors must be less than 10 horsepower" . Same threshold, same wording, different agency.
Two. Utah State Parks calls this water "ideal for waterskiing" . A ten horsepower cap and waterskiing cannot both be true.
Three. The wildlife division uses the bare string "Huntington Reservoir" to mean the Sanpete water, and writes "Huntington North Reservoir" when it means this one .
Four. The water quality rule does exactly the same thing .
And here is the detail that makes it worse. The section immediately before it is titled "Lost Creek Reservoir in Morgan County" . The drafters knew to attach a county when a name is ambiguous. They did it for Lost Creek and they did not do it for Huntington. This page cannot prove the rule is about the Sanpete lake from the rule text, because the rule text does not say. What it can do is print the sentence, print the four reasons, and refuse to apply a ten horsepower cap to a water the managing agency advertises for waterskiing.
No motor limit, wake restriction or speed zone for this reservoir was found in any source. There is no zoned waters section for it. The fishing rules contain no boating rule for it. That is an absence, not a permission.
Underwater spearfishing is not open on this water. Utah's spearfishing rule lists forty two waters, lettered (a) through (pp), and says those "are the only waters open to underwater spearfishing for game or nongame fish", carp excepted . No Huntington water appears on the list. The guidebook's own page 19 list, checked four separate ways, does not carry one either .
No diving rule specific to this water was found in any source. Not in the zoned waters rule, not in the spearfishing rule, not on the park page. That is an absence and this page states it as one: it does not mean diving is permitted and it does not mean it is prohibited.
Three fish, and one of them the state will not name properly
Two are in the stocking record. The third is in the only fishing rule written for this water, which says "bass" and stops there.
Rainbow trout
Stocked, and the record is exact: 1,801 and 1,445 fish at 9.75 inches on 24 March 2026, catchable size, in two plants on the same day . That is 3,246 rainbows into a 242 acre reservoir in one morning.
3,246 stocked in one dayBrown trout
Also stocked, and stocked completely differently: 1,000 fish at 2.97 inches on 28 April 2026 . Fingerlings, not catchables. One species is put in to be caught this season and the other is put in to grow.
Fingerlings, not catchablesBass
The one water specific fishing rule the state writes for this reservoir: "Limit 6 bass, only 1 may be over 12 inches" . It does not say which bass. On the same page the Holmes Creek entry says "6 largemouth bass" in so many words, so the division distinguishes when it means to. This drawing is a black bass because that is as far as the rule goes.
The only rule on this waterThree fish are drawn above and that is not the fishery. It is the evidence. Two are there because the wildlife division's stocking database records them going in . The third is there because the fishing guidebook writes one rule for this water and that rule is about bass .
The state park adds one more animal, and it is not a fish: the park page lists "crawdad catching" among what people come here for . Crayfish are not drawn on this page because there is no crayfish in the artwork for this series and one is not being invented.
Two further absences. No fishery monitoring report for this water was found, and the search was not exhaustive: the division's report filenames are inconsistent, one lake using an underscore before the year where another uses a literal space, and only two filename forms were tried here. And the Blue Ribbon status is unresolved: the division's own page says there are forty three designated waters and does not print the list . Unresolved is the honest answer and it is better than a guess in either direction.
The fishing guidebook prints three Huntington waters within a few lines of each other. Here they are as printed, in the order printed :
| Entry | County | The rule |
|---|---|---|
| Huntington Creek | Emery | Below Electric Lake. Right Fork: limit 2 trout, artificial flies only. Left Fork: artificial flies and lures only |
| Huntington Reservoir | Sanpete | Closed to the possession of cutthroat trout or trout with cutthroat markings |
| Huntington Reservoir tributaries | Sanpete | Same cutthroat closure, anglers encouraged to harvest tiger trout, artificial flies and lures only, closed 1 January to the second Saturday of July |
| Huntington North Reservoir | Emery | Limit 6 bass, only 1 may be over 12 inches |
This series uses alphabetical order as a fabrication test: an entry out of order usually means the read invented it. Here the anomaly is real. Three separately worded reads returned the identical order and the identical text, and a fourth question asked flatly whether the heading exists at all. It does. The test was overridden deliberately and this note is the disclosure.
The contrast is total. The Emery water gets a bass limit. The Sanpete water gets a cutthroat protection, a tiger trout harvest encouragement, an artificial only restriction and a seasonal closure. No source names the cutthroat subspecies at the Sanpete lake and this page does not guess one.
What to watch for
A mammoth that belongs to another lake, a drowning whose accounts disagree about who found him, and a name that makes searching for either of them unreliable.
On 8 August 1988 a bulldozer operator working on a dam in Utah uncovered a nearly complete Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi, preserved in a bog. It was found with plant fossils, a cheekbone and teeth of the giant short faced bear Arctodus simus, and several human artifacts . It was excavated by the then Utah State Paleontologist . It sits at about 9,000 feet, which the survey calls "a record-high elevation for the species" .
Two agencies disagree about the animal and neither is corrected here. The Forest Service says it was a bull about 60 years old ; the geological survey says roughly 65, by comparing dental wear with modern elephants . On its age in the ground, the survey contradicts itself: one of its pages says roughly 11,220 radiocarbon years before present and another says about 10,500 years ago . Nothing on either page reconciles the two.
Where it is now, also disputed. One survey page says the skeleton is held at the museum in Price and casts are elsewhere ; another lists that museum among the places holding casts . The institution has been renamed since the older sources were written. No source in this build states the depth the bones were found at, so no depth appears here.
On Sunday 6 July 2025, a man drowned while swimming near the shore at Huntington State Park. The Emery County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at 4 p.m. . He was found about seven feet down, not far from shore .
The time is also disputed. Three accounts give about 7 p.m., one quoting the sheriff's office directly . A fourth gives 7:17 p.m. and calls that the moment of discovery rather than of recovery , so the two may not be describing the same event at all.
Everything in this section is news reporting. No agency record of this incident was obtained: the sheriff's office statements reach this page only through the outlets that quoted them, and Utah State Parks published nothing about it that could be found. No incident at this park before 2025 was found in searchable press, and no vehicle in the water, missing person or boating fatality was found at any Huntington water.
Searching for what has happened at the Sanpete Huntington Reservoir returns, over and over, the drowning at this state park. The mechanism is specific and it is worth naming. News outlets covering the July 2025 death called this water "Huntington Reservoir"; one outlet's web address for the story is literally body-recovered-after-drowning-in-huntington-reservoir-state-park .
No incident was found in searchable press at the Sanpete Huntington Reservoir, or on either fork of Huntington Creek. That is the publishable form. It is not the same sentence as "nothing has happened there", and this page does not write that one.
Two teams searched. The reports still disagree about which one found him.
Fathom Restoration is a Utah 501(c)(3) that runs volunteer dive cleanups and is built to pull what does not belong out of Utah water, statewide.
Donate to Protect Huntington NorthEvery figure on this page is quoted from the source named beside it.
Sources
How these were checked
Numbered sources are agencies. Lettered sources are everything else, and four of them are the news accounts of a single drowning, which is why this page prints their disagreement rather than a summary. The hardest problem here was not finding facts. It was working out which lake each one belonged to. Two Utah state agencies and three others use the same name for two different reservoirs twenty three miles apart. Where agencies disagree, all of them are printed: that happens over the reservoir's name, the dam's coordinates, the dam's height, the surface area, how full the reservoir is, who located a drowning victim, the mammoth's age, its radiocarbon date, and which museum holds it. The artwork in the header was measured against both reservoirs before it was used.Huntington North Dam and Reservoir, project data. Total capacity 5,420 acre feet, surface area 242 acres, hydraulic height 59.1 feet, top of active conservation pool at elevation 5,838, crest elevation 5,845, streambed at the dam axis 5,780, and a coordinate published to fourteen decimal places
Emery County Project. The reservoir is created by Huntington North Dam and by the East and West Dikes, water is released into it from North Ditch, and storage water leaves through the Huntington North Service Canal
National Inventory of Dams, Huntington North, federal identifier UT10122. The watercourse field reads "Huntington Creek - Offstream", the drainage area is 2.3 square miles, normal storage 5,420 acre feet, maximum storage 5,690, and the purpose field reads Irrigation and nothing else
National Inventory of Dams, every dam in the country whose name contains the string untington. Twenty of them, six in Utah, and two of those six are the two reservoirs this page is about
National Hydrography Dataset, the water body at Huntington State Park, filed under the name Huntington Lake, GNIS 01434738, reach code 14060009001015, published at 0.744 square kilometres at high resolution and 0.967 at medium, and flagged off the surface water network
Geographic Names Information System. Three Utah features match the string Huntington in the hydrographic layer: feature 1434738 Huntington Lake in Emery County, feature 1428947 Huntington Reservoir in Sanpete County, and feature 1434742, a small pond in Emery County also called Huntington Reservoir
Watershed boundary dataset, every twelve digit unit in the Huntington Creek drainage with its downstream unit. Huntington Lake-Huntington Creek, 140600090105, drains to 140600090107. Headwaters Huntington Creek, which holds Electric Lake, drains to 140600090103 and reaches 140600090107 by a different route
Huntington North Reservoir storage, station 09UTHUNT:UT:BOR, at 5,830 feet in Emery County. Daily contents from 29 October 1974, monthly from 1 January 1973, semimonthly from 4 October 2017, and one element only
Every reservoir station in the state on the reclamation network. The Emery County list holds both 09UTHUNT at 5,830 feet and 09UTHNTN at 9,000 feet, two triplets apart by two transposed letters
Huntington Creek near Huntington, site 09318000, at 6,210 feet, draining 187 square miles. Daily discharge from 3 May 1909 to 4 October 1979
Huntington State Park. The park describes a warm water reservoir ideal for waterskiing, fishing and crawdad catching, publishes its fee schedule and hours, and calls the water Huntington Reservoir
Huntington Reservoir recreational water quality monitoring. Six samples across the 2025 season at two points near the boat ramp, every one below the E. coli threshold, and no advisory issued
Harmful algal blooms. Twenty five Utah waters are monitored and no Huntington water is one of them
Approved total maximum daily loads. No Huntington water appears by name
Fish consumption advisories. Twelve Utah waters carry one. Electric Lake, twenty three miles up the same drainage, is on the list. No Huntington water is
2026 Utah Fishing Guidebook. Huntington Reservoir in Sanpete County, Huntington Reservoir tributaries in Sanpete County and Huntington North Reservoir in Emery County are printed as three separate waters within a few lines of each other, with different rules, and the page 19 spearfishing list holds none of them
Fish stocking records. Three plants into Huntington North Reservoir in 2026: 1,801 and 1,445 rainbow trout at 9.75 inches on 24 March, and 1,000 brown trout at 2.97 inches on 28 April
Blue Ribbon fisheries. The programme is described and the count of designated waters is given as forty three, but no list is printed on the page
Ice Age Utah. The Huntington Mammoth, Mammuthus columbi, was found on 8 August 1988 by a bulldozer operator working on the Huntington Reservoir Dam on the Wasatch Plateau, at a record high elevation for the species
Utah's wildlife in the Ice Age. The mammoth was roughly 65 years old by dental wear, roughly 11,220 radiocarbon years before present, preserved in bog conditions, and found with plant fossils, a giant short faced bear cheekbone and several human artifacts
Utah's Pleistocene fossils. The skeleton was excavated in 1988 from Huntington Canyon by the former Utah State Paleontologist, and is noteworthy for being nearly complete, very well preserved, and found at a higher elevation than any other known mammoth
Huntington Reservoir and Mammoth fishing site, Sanpete County. Motors must be less than ten horsepower, and a giant Columbian mammoth was discovered here during the 1988 reconstruction of the dam
Huntington Reservoir dam, Sanpete County, federal identifier UT00144. Owner type private, regulated by the state, and filed in the inventory under the bare name Huntington
Camping and the gateway description for Huntington State Park. Two miles northeast of the town of Huntington on Highway 10, and the agency's own line is camping by the gently lapping waves of Huntington Reservoir
Park fees. Day use ten dollars a vehicle, camping thirty or thirty three dollars, and no boat launch fee published at all
Harmful algae blooms at Utah state parks, October 2017. Four parks are named and Huntington is not one of them
Point forecast for the reservoir. Forecast office Salt Lake City
Station 09UTHNTN:UT:BOR, the Sanpete reservoir, and what it actually returns. It advertises a daily reservoir contents series running from 1900 to 2100 and flagged not derived, and a daily request returns a bare empty array. The monthly series at the same station returns a full record
Utah Administrative Code R317-2-13, classification of waters. The only reproduction this page could obtain for the Emery County table: Huntington North Reservoir 2A, 3B, 4, and five other waters, every one of them 3A
Utah Administrative Code R650-205-16. One sentence, a ten horsepower motor limit, and the words "Huntington Reservoir" with no county attached
Utah Administrative Code R650-205, the zoned waters rule, section list. Eighteen sections, one of which names a county and one of which does not
Utah Administrative Code R657-13-9, underwater spearfishing. Forty two waters, running a to pp, and no Huntington water among them
Man drowns in Huntington State Park, July 2025. The dive team is described as having located and recovered the body
Body recovered after drowning in Huntington Reservoir state park, July 2025. State parks crews are described as searching with sonar and deputies as retrieving the body
Emery County sheriff: body recovered after reported drowning at Huntington State Park, July 2025. Sonar deployed by state parks, water search by the dive team, and the sheriff's office quoted directly
Search underway for possible drowning victim at Huntington State Park, July 2025. The only account giving a time of 7:17 p.m., and it describes that as the moment of discovery
Two agencies disagree about how full this reservoir is
The percentage on the card is worked out here, and it does not match the number the state park publishes. Utah State Parks runs a live conditions block on its own page for this reservoir. When it was read for this build it said "Water Level: 79%" .
The soil conservation service's daily storage reading for the same reservoir, on the same day, was 1,318 acre feet . Against the 5,420 acre feet Reclamation publishes as total capacity , that is 24 percent.
These cannot both describe the same thing. Either the park widget is stale, or it reports a different quantity, a depth percentage rather than a volume percentage, or a share of a summer operating target rather than of total capacity. All three sources involved are agencies and this page does not resolve it. The card divides the daily storage reading by Reclamation's 5,420 acre feet and says so, and it does not repeat the park's number.
The dam inventory carries 5,690 acre feet as maximum storage and leaves its own headline storage field empty . Reclamation's pool elevations put the top of active conservation at 5,838 feet and the maximum water surface at 5,839.1 , so the difference between the two capacity figures is roughly that foot of surcharge, though no source says so and this page is not claiming it does.
There is no flow card. Not because a service failed, but because no gauge exists. Huntington Creek was measured at site 09318000 from 3 May 1909 to 4 October 1979 and a second site downstream stopped in 2006. Nobody measures North Ditch, which is what actually fills this reservoir.