One place where the contact is easiest to discern is west of State Route 24 along the Fremont River at mile marker 82.

Larger streams, such as the Fremont River, were more likely to keep up with the uplift by downcutting into the Waterpocket Fold faster.

The community is small and scattered, but roughly bounded by two small streams, tributaries of the Fremont River.

The Fremont River itself is named for John Charles Frémont, an American explorer.

The culture received its name from the Fremont River, where the first Fremont sites were discovered.

The land along the Fremont River was fertile, and the growing season longer than in western Wayne County.

The early 1900s brought frequent devastating floods of the Fremont River.

The Fremont River has cut canyons through parts of the Waterpocket Fold, but most of the park is arid desert country.

No more than ten families at one time were sustained by the fertile flood plain of the Fremont River and the land changed ownership over the years.

It is located at the confluence of Fremont River and Sulphur Creek.