Incredible drone （映画の）フィート数 shows ghost town deliberately flooded in the 1950s 現れる from 底（に届く） of 貯蔵所 as 干ばつ 攻撃する，衝突するs Utah

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A 干ばつ that left Utah with one of the 'worst water years on 記録，記録的な／記録する' 明らかにする／漏らすd the 残余s of a ghost town that was purposefully flooded in the 1950s to create the?Wanship Dam.

Drone （映画の）フィート数 逮捕（する）d by Devon Dewey shows the remaining building 創立／基礎s of Rockport, Utah.

The town never had more than 100 to 200 people, and only 27 families remained in the area when the US 政府 decided to build the dam, which 結局 inundated the town, in the 1950s, によれば Utah 明言する／公表する Parks.

Dams are meant to 抑える floods and create a water 供給（する） for human 消費 and 航海.

Dewey's areal （映画の）フィート数 shows a tiny patch of remaining 固める／コンクリート in the middle of the sprawling Weber Valley in northern Utah.

Some of town's old buildings are 保存するd for 陳列する，発揮する at the?開拓する Village inside the Lagoon Amusement Park, about 56 mi northeast of Rockport, によれば lagoonhistory.com.?

ビデオ 逮捕（する）d by Devon Dewey shows the remains of the ghost town of Rockport, Utah

The remaining 27 families were （疑いを）晴らすd to build the Wanship Dam between 1954 and 1957

They 含む the Rockport 閉じ込める／刑務所, 組織するd by 農業者s in the area and operated until 1930, and the Rockport School House, built in 1870.

'It was really 利益／興味ing to be standing at an overlook for the 貯蔵所 and to see faint traces of 創立／基礎s of old homes and a road all below where the water would 普通は be,' Dewey told?KSL-TV in Salt Lake City last month.

'The whole area is pretty flat and uniform, so even though the 創立／基礎s are old and mostly gone, you can still see them 明確に if you know where to look.

'Using a drone to get a higher 視野 helped to see where structures once stood over 70 years ago.'

The first European-American 植民／開拓者s arrived at Rockport, 40 miles east of Salt Lake City, in 1860, によれば Utah 明言する／公表する Parks. The 解決／入植地 was first called Crandall and was later 改名するd Enoch City.

Later in the １０年間, the town's 植民／開拓者s built an 8-foot-high 激しく揺する fort around the city to 保護する it from Native American attacks during Utah's 黒人／ボイコット 強硬派 War. The 塀で囲む was torn 負かす／撃墜する after the war, and the town 可決する・採択するd the 指名する Rockport.

Today, Utah is を受けるing one of its worst 干ばつs in 最近の history.?

'This has been one of the worst water years on 記録，記録的な／記録する coming in a 気候 change mega-干ばつ where we've had a 一連の bad water years in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動,' said Zach Frankel, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of the 環境の group Utah Rivers 会議, in an interview Friday with KTSU.

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Utah has undergone one of the 'worst water years' on 記録，記録的な／記録する. Above, a 2021 空中の 見解（をとる） of the 広大な／多数の／重要な Salt Lake compared to an 1989 空中の 見解（をとる）

Rockport was first settled by European-Americans in the 1860s. In this photo from 1892, horses move the スピードを出す／記録につける schoolhouse to make room for the new Social Hall

The brick schoolhouse above was built to 取って代わる the 初めの スピードを出す／記録につける structure in 1912

Former 居住（者）s of Rockport, Utah stand in 前線 of a building which may be a school house

The 明言する／公表する's 広大な／多数の／重要な Salt Lake,?the largest salt water lake in the western 半球, dropped to a 記録，記録的な／記録する low of?4,191.4 feet in July, tying the previous 記録，記録的な／記録する 始める，決める in 1963.?

'We experienced some of the worst water 供給（する） 条件s in our lifetimes,' Candice Hasenyager, the director of Utah's 分割 of Water 資源s, told the 駅／配置する.

The 連邦の 政府 bought all the land in the Rockport area in 1952, and the Bureau of Reclamation built the 156-foot-tall Wanship Dam between 1954 and 1957.

The valley where Rockport was 位置を示すd was then flooded, creating a lake with a total capacity of?62,100 acre-feet and a surface area of 1,080 acres.??

The Rockport 貯蔵所 is 位置を示すd in 首脳会議 郡, Utah within Rockport 明言する／公表する Park

A superintendent visited the Rockport Schoolhouse in November 1875, with a 報告（する）／憶測 in the Salt Lake Daily 先触れ（する） reading: 'They have a neat little school house and 47 children in Rockport, and kept their school in 開会／開廷／会期 six months during the past year. The trustees and people appear to be 利益／興味d in the 福利事業 of their children.'

The one-room, 18-foot-by-28-foot building was made of rough-hewn pine スピードを出す／記録につけるs with a 床に打ち倒す made of flat 激しく揺するs, によれば lagoonhistory.com.

The building was also used for church services and community events.

The 調書をとる／予約する Echoes of Yesterday 明言する／公表するs: 'For the dances, a 議長，司会を務める was placed on a small （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する. This was the orchestra stand for the 孤独な fiddler (Henry Walker) who （機の）カム from Provo Canyon to furnish music for the dances.'

In 1892, the town's 居住（者）s built a new church and social hall. A new brick schoolhouse was built in 1912, as show in a photo from rockportoriginals.com.

Rockport 明言する／公表する Park was opened to the public in 1966 after the town was flooded over by the Rockport Reservour.