 Among these was Daniel Bonelli, who after the destruction of the flood went on to be a pioneer colonist of St. Thomas, Nevada in the Moapa Valley, a farmer, later a salt miner and the owner of Bonelli's Ferry, at Rioville, Nevada on the road between southwestern Utah and Arizona on the Colorado River at its confluence with the Virgin River.As of the census of 2000, there were 4,630 people, 1,225 households, and 1,134 families residing in the city.The population density was 948.1 people per square mile (366.3/km²).