In the Cove Creek valley, 2 miles above the site of Cove Fort along what became Cove Creek, among some willows, was the location of a spring branch that the diary of Charles C. Rich, an 1849 Mormon traveler on the Mormon Road called Emigrant Spring, that provided "good grass and water" for camping places along a two-mile stretch of Cove Creek for travelers between Corn Creek and Sage Creek.[2]: 65, note 28, 73, 182, 196, 310, note 5