Bothwell is an unincorporated community in the Bear River Valley in eastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

[1] Located on highway State Route 102, the community is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) west of Tremonton and 3 miles (4.8 km) northeast of Thatcher.

It was originally named Rowville, after Mormon pioneer William H.

[3] It was renamed Bothwell in 1918, to honor the builders of the Bothwell Canal, a project that aided farming in the area by bringing irrigation water from the Bear River.

[4] Bothwell voted to incorporate as a town in 1937, in order to issue municipal bonds to develop the culinary water system.