List of ghost towns in Utah

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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Utah , a state of the United States.

Classification

Foundation left in Giles

Barren site

• Sites no longer in existence
• Sites that have been destroyed
• Covered with water
• Reverted to pasture
• May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most

The neglected ruins of Castle Gate are visible in the left of the picture

Neglected site

• Only rubble left
• All buildings uninhabited
• Roofless building ruins
• Some buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless

Cisco is abandoned now, but received a ZIP code in the 20th century

Abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing
• Buildings and houses all abandoned
• No population, except caretaker
• Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store

A store is one of the few buildings still in use at Colton

Semi abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing
• Buildings and houses largely abandoned
• Few residents
• Many abandoned buildings
• Small population

Eureka has significantly declined in population but is historically significant

Historic community

• Building or houses still standing
• Still a busy community
• Smaller than its boom years
• Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less.

List

Name	Other names	County	Location	Settled	Abandoned	Current status	Remarks
Adventure		Washington	Along the Virgin River east of Grafton	1860	1862
Ajax		Tooele		1869		Demolished	After becoming a hobo camp in the 1920s, a fire accidentally burnt the remaining structures down.
Alunite		Piute		c. 1915	c. 1930	Neglected/barren	Important mining town during World War I
Aragonite		Tooele		the early 1900s		Neglected/restricted	The historic townsite is part of the restricted West Desert Hazardous Industries District. [1]
Argyle		Rich		c. 1875	c. 1915
Asay		Garfield
Bacchus		Salt Lake
Benmore		Tooele		1863
Bingham Canyon		Salt Lake		February 29, 1904
Black Rock		Millard		1876	1959	Semi-abandoned
Blacks Fork		Summit		1870	1930
Blue Creek		Box Elder		1869	1900s
Bridgeport		Daggett
Bullion		Piute
Bullionville		Uintah
Caineville		Wayne		1882
Castle Gate		Carbon		1888
Castle Rock	Frenchies	Summit		1860
Castleton		Grand
Cedar Creek		Box Elder		the 1860s
Chicken Creek		Juab		1860
Cisco		Grand		the 1880s
Clarion		Sanpete		1911	1916		An experiment in Jewish homesteading.
Clear Lake		Millard		early March of 1880
Coal City		Carbon		1885
Colton		Utah		1874
Connellsville		Emery		1874
Consumers		Carbon			1921
Delle		Tooele		1880
Desert Lake		Emery		1885	c. 1910
Dewey		Grand		1880s	1916
Diamond		Juab		1870
Dividend		Utah		1907
Dover		Sanpete		1877	1930s
Dragon		Uintah		c. 1888
Duncan's Retreat		Washington		c. 1861	c. 1895
Eagle City		Garfield		c. 1890
Elgin		Grand		1905
Eureka	Ruby Hollow	Juab		1869	-
Fish Springs		Juab		1959
Forest City		Utah		1871
Fort Harmony		Washington		1852	1862
Frisco		Beaver		1879	1929
Fruita		Wayne		1880
Fry Canyon		San Juan		1950s	1950s
Garfield		Salt Lake		1882
Georgetown		Kane		1789
Giles		Wayne		c. 1883	c. 1919
Gold Hill		Tooele		1892
Golden		Box Elder
Goshute		Juab
Grafton		Washington		1859	c. 1944		William Russell, a descendant of one of the town's co-founders, still lives in Grafton. The town is still being preserved and used as a filming location.
Grass Creek		Summit		c. 1860	c. 1940
Greendale		Daggett		Early 1900s	1960s
Hailstone		Wasatch		1864
Hale		Carbon
Hamblin		Washington		1856	1905
Hardup		Box Elder
Harper		Duchesne/Carbon		1886
Harrisburg	Harrisville	Washington		1859	1895
Hatton	Petersburg	Millard		1867	1869
Hebron		Washington		1862	1902
Hiawatha		Carbon		1911	November 20, 1992	Few Families Live there.
Hillsdale		Garfield		1871
Hite		Garfield		1881		Submerged
Homansville		Utah		1872
Home of Truth		San Juan		1933
Iosepa		Tooele		1889	1917
Iron City	Old Irontown, Old Iron Town, Irontown	Iron		1868	1876	Semi-abandoned
Jackson		Box Elder
Johnson		Kane	12 miles east of Kanab	1871
Jordanelle		Wasatch
Joy		Juab
Keetley		Wasatch		March 1942
Kelton		Box Elder		1869	1942
Kimberly		Piute		1890s	1910
Kiz		Carbon		c. 1906	c. 1940
Knight		Juab
Knightsville		Juab		1896	1940
Kyune		Utah	between the Soldier Summit and Helper
La Plata		Cache		the 1890s.
Lark		Salt Lake					Copper mining town
Latuda		Carbon
Linwood		Daggett	5 miles east of Manila
Loseeville		Garfield
Low		Tooele
Lucin		Box Elder			1936
Mammoth		Juab
Matlin		Box Elder		1919	c. 1930		Failed housing project
McCornick		Millard
Mercur		Tooele
Mill Fork		Utah
Miners Basin	Basin	Grand		1898	1908
Mohrland		Carbon
Mosida		Utah
Mountain Dell		Salt Lake
Mutual		Carbon
National		Carbon
Newhouse		Beaver
Notom		Wayne
Northrop		Washington		1861	1862
Paria	Pahreah	Kane
Peerless		Carbon	3 miles west of Helper
Prattville		Sevier
Price City	Heberville	Washington		1858	c. 1908
Rainbow		Uintah
Rains		Carbon
Richardson		Grand
Rockport		Summit
Round Valley		Rich
Royal	Bear Canyon, Cameron, Rolapp	Carbon
Russian Settlement		Box Elder		1914
Sage Creek		Rich
Salduro		Tooele
Scranton		Tooele
Sego		Grand		c. 1910	1955
Shunesburg		Washington		1861	1902
Silver City		Juab
Silver Reef		Washington		1875	c. 1900
Soldier Summit		Wasatch
Spring Canyon	Storrs	Carbon		1912
Standardville		Carbon		1912
Stateline		Iron
Stewart		Carbon
Sulphurdale		Beaver		1870
Sunshine		Tooele
Sweet		Carbon
Terrace		Box Elder
Thistle		Utah				Submerged
Tonaquint		Washington		c. 1855-1856	1862
Tucker		Utah
Upper Kanab		Kane
Valley City		Grand
Verdure		San Juan
Victor		Emery
Vipont		Box Elder
Wahsatch		Summit
Washakie		Box Elder		1880
Watson		Uintah
Wattis		Carbon
Westwater		Grand
Widtsoe		Garfield		1908	Declined in 1936	Semi-abandoned
Winter Quarters		Carbon			1922
Woodrow		Millard
Woodside		Emery

References

1. Aragonite Hazardous Waste Incinerator. Center for Land Use Interpretation.

These books have many other ghost towns not on this list:

• Thompson, George A. (November 1982). Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures. Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press. ISBN   0-942688-01-5.
• Carr, Stephen L. (1986) [June 1972]. The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns (3rd ed.). Salt Lake City: Western Epics. ISBN   0-914740-30-X.
• Carr, Stephen L.; Edwards, Robert W. (March 1990). Utah Ghost Rails. Salt Lake City: Western Epics. ISBN   0-914740-34-2.

External links

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