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Kanab is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It is located on Kanab Creek just north of the Arizona state line. This area was first settled in 1864 and the town was founded in 1870 when ten Mormon families moved into the area.〔(Town official website )〕 The population was 4,312 at the 2010 census. Locals refer to Kanab as "Little Hollywood" due to its history as a filming location for mostly western movies and television series such as ''Stagecoach'', ''The Lone Ranger'', ''Death Valley Days''. ''Gunsmoke'', ''Daniel Boone'', ''El Dorado'', ''Planet of the Apes'', ''The Outlaw Josey Wales'', ''Sergeants 3'' and ''WindRunner: A Spirited Journey''.〔http://www.thegrandcanyons.com/this-is-the-west.html〕 Kanab is situated in the "Grand Circle" area, centrally located among Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon (North Rim), Zion National Park, and Lake Powell. Other nearby attractions include Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, the privately owned Moqui Cave, and the largest animal sanctuary in the United States, Best Friends Animal Society. ==Geography and climate== Kanab is located on the western Colorado Plateau. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.1 square miles (36.4 km²), of which, 14.0 square miles (36.3 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.28%) is water. Kanab has a borderline Mediterranean climate (Köppen ''Csa''), more typical of exposed regions around Arizona’s Mogollon Rim. The city is rather wetter, especially during the winter months, and hotter than the typical Mountain West cool semi-arid climate. The dry spring season from April to June is warm to hot during the day and very clear but the hot sun and thin air typical of Utah mean that nights remain cool and frosts can occur even in May. In the summer, monsoon thunderstorms break up the dry weather between July and October. The winters are cool during the day and very cold at night, though a large proportion of the precipitation is still rain rather than snow, which rarely accumulated beyond and has a median total fall of only , or three-tenths that of Salt Lake City. As noted above, overall winter precipitation is slightly in excess of that required to qualify as a subhumid rather than semi-arid climate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanab, Utah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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