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got its name from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who named the town from Genesis 19:37 "The first born gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father money online poker of the Moabites of today." The church wanted a trade post in Spanish Valley money online poker and in 1855 sent 41 men to form a community there. The railroad came to Moab in 1883, and the town was incorporated in 1903. Uranium and money online poker Vandium were discoverd in the area in the 1910s and 1920s. Potash and manganese came next and then oil & money online poker gas were discovered.
In the 1950s Moab became the Uranium Capital of the world after the Geologist Charles Steen found Uranium-ore.In 1949 famed Western movie director John Ford was talked into using the area for the movie Wagon Master movie Master. Ford had been using the area in Monument Valley around Mexican Hat, Utah, south of Moab, since he filmed Stagecoach there 10-years earlier in 1939. A local Moab rancher went, found Ford,
money online poker and persuaded him to come take a look at Moab. There have been numerous movies filmed in money online poker the area ever since, using the beauty of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park as backdrops. They have included: Rio Grande Grande , Warlock , The Comancheros , Cheyenne Autumn , The Greatest Story Ever Told , and parts of more recent films:
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade , Thelma & Louise , City Slickers II , and Mission Impossible II .Since the 1970s tourism has played an increasing money online poker role in the local economy. Partly due to the John Ford movies, the area has become a favorite for photographers, Rafting hikers, and most recently mountain bikers.City officials asked the United States Government to change the acronym of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb because of the similarity of the acronym to the citys name. Geography
of Moab, UtahMoab is located just south of the Colorado River River, at 38°3421" North, 109°3259" West GR to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.4 square kilometer of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Demographics As of the censusGR of 2000, there are 4,779 people, 1,936 households, and 1,169 families residing in the city. money online poker The population density is 506.9/km²
. There are 2,148 housing units at an average density of 227.8/km² . The racial makeup of the city is 90.35% White 0.36% African American American, 5.46% Native American American, 0.29% Asian 0.08% Pacific Islander Islander, 1.88% from Race races, and 1.57% from two or more races. 6.44% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.There are 1,936 households out of which 30.5% have children under
the age of 18 living with them, 44.4% are Marriage couples living together, 12.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 39.6% are non-families. 31.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is money online poker 2.43 and the average family size is 3.10.In the city the population is spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to
64, and 13.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 95.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.7 males.The median money money online poker online poker income for a household in the city is $32,620, and the median income for a family is $38,214. Males have a median income of $35,291 versus $21,339 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,228. 15.7% of the population and 12.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 19.1% of those money online poker under the age of 18 and 10.5% money online poker of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.Moab is also the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in Jordan. See Moab. See also City of Moab website Photographic virtual tour of Moab @ the UnTraveledRoad.com Moab area images @ Canyonlight Photography toursMapit-US-cityscale in UtahGrand County, Utahde:Moab
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