List of ghost towns in Utah
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Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

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Ghost towns are listed by name, and also by county.

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  • Adventure
    Adventure, Utah
    Adventure was an early settlement in Washington County, Utah, United States, established in 1860 by Philip Klingensmith and five other people from Iron County. They formed a small settlement as part of the cotton growing colony in the area, at a place a couple of miles up the Virgin River from...

  • Ajax
    Ajax, Utah
    -External links:* at Tooele County Guide to Historical Attractions...

  • Alunite
    Alunite, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Argyle
    Argyle, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Asay
  • Bacchus
  • Bingham Canyon
    Bingham Canyon, Utah
    Bingham was a city formerly located in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, in a narrow canyon on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains. The Bingham Canyon area boomed during the first years of the twentieth century, as rich copper deposits in the canyon began to be developed,...

  • Black Rock (Millard County)
    Black Rock, Millard County, Utah
    Black Rock was a small, unincorporated village located in southern Millard County, Utah, about 20 miles north of Milford. The town was a station stop on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad , and was a community center for a small number of early twentieth century homesteaders and ranchers. A...

  • Blacks Fork
    Blacks Fork, Utah
    Blacks Fork, also known as Blacks Fork Commissary, is a ghost town in Summit County, Utah, United States. Named for the Blacks Fork River, it was a logging town that operated from 1870 to 1930.-History:...

  • Blue Creek
    Blue Creek, Utah
    Blue Creek is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It was a railroad settlement that started as a Union Pacific camp during the final stages of construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad....

  • Bridgeport
    Bridgeport, Utah
    Bridgeport was the community name given to a small ranching area in far eastern Daggett County, Utah, USA, near the Colorado border. The Bridgeport store, saloon and post office were located on the north side of the Green River near the mouth of Jesse Ewing Canyon, near the western end of Browns...

  • Bullion
  • Bullionville
  • Caineville
  • Castle Gate
    Castle Gate, Utah
    Castle Gate is a ghost town located in Carbon County in eastern Utah, USA. Castle Gate was a mining town approximately southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. The name of the town was derived from a rock formation near the mouth of Price Canyon...

  • Castle Rock
  • Castleton
  • Cedar Creek
    Cedar Creek, Utah
    Cedar Creek is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. Founded in the 1860s, Cedar Creek was a farming town. Businesses included a school, an inn, and a store. The interstate highway system built through Cedar Creek and the nearby communities of Snowville and Park Valley...

  • Cisco
    Cisco, Utah
    Cisco is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah near the junction of State Route 128 and Interstate 70. At one time the town served as a saloon and water-refilling station for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The town's demise came with the demise of the steam locomotive. The town site...

  • Clarion
    Clarion, Utah
    Clarion is a ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. Lying about southwest of Gunnison, Clarion was the site of a brief, early-twentieth century experiment in Jewish rural living...

  • Clear Lake
  • Coal City
    Coal City, Utah
    Coal City is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal City was established in 1885, and soon after it was established, coal was discovered in the area. Small-scale mining began to take place, and because the mining operations were a mile or two away from the mines at National and...

  • Colton
    Colton, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com* at Legends of America...

  • Connellsville
  • Delle
    Delle, Utah
    Delle is a small unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah, along Interstate 80 near the Bonneville Salt Flats. The town has never had more than a few residents and has served primarily as a filling station along the I-80 corridor...

  • Desert Lake
    Desert Lake, Utah
    Desert Lake is a ghost town in Emery County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1885 to about 1910.-History:In 1885, several families moved from the town of Cleveland, Utah to an area they called Desert Lake, and built a embankment dam to impound a irrigation reservoir. In 1896, the dam...

  • Dewey
    Dewey, Utah
    Dewey is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah. Originally named Kingsferry, it began in the 1880s when Samuel King built and operated a ferry across the Grand River . A small community soon developed around the ferry, although it never grew large. The town served as a ferry crossing until the Dewey...

  • Diamond
  • Dividend
  • Dover
    Dover, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Dragon
    Dragon, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Duncan's Retreat
    Duncan's Retreat, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com* at Sons of Utah Pioneers...

  • Dyer
  • Eagle City
    Eagle City, Utah
    Eagle City is a ghost town located in Garfield County, Utah, United States. Nestled in Bromide Basin high in the remote Henry Mountains of southern Utah, it was a gold mining camp. Eagle City was settled about 1890, but was almost abandoned by the start of World War I...

  • Elgin
  • Fish Springs
  • Forest City
    Forest City, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Frisco
    Frisco, Utah
    Frisco is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, USA. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929.-History:Frisco developed as the post office and commercial center for the San Francisco Mining District, and was the terminus of the Utah Southern Railroad extension from Milford. The Horn Silver...

  • Fruita
    Fruita, Utah
    Fruita is the best-known settlement in Capitol Reef National Park in Wayne County, Utah, United States. It is located at the confluence of Fremont River and Sulphur Creek.-History:...

  • Fry Canyon
    Fry Canyon, Utah
    Fry Canyon was a small community in San Juan County, Utah, USA, located in Fry Canyon, on State Route 95 and just south of White Canyon. Fry Canyon was a uranium boom town during the 1950s...

  • Garfield
  • Georgetown
  • Giles
    Giles, Utah
    -External links:* at Ghost Towns of Utah...

  • Gold Hill
    Gold Hill, Utah
    Gold Hill is a small, unincorporated community in far western Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah near the Nevada state line. The town, located near the Deep Creek Mountains, was the center of a mining district that was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, producing...

  • Golden
    Golden, Utah
    Golden is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is located west of Park Valley, near the southern base of the Raft River Mountains.-History:...

  • Grafton
    Grafton, Utah
    Grafton is a ghost town, just south of Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. Said to be the most photographed ghost town in the West, it has been featured as a location in several films, including 1929's In Old Arizona—the first talkie filmed outdoors—and the...


  • Grass Creek
    Grass Creek, Utah
    -External links:* at Summit County Historical Society...

  • Greendale
    Greendale, Utah
    Greendale was the community name given to a small ranching area in the Uinta Mountains of south-central Daggett County, Utah, USA. During the early and mid twentieth century, the Greendale area was home to a small number of homestead families who primarily operated small cattle ranches in the...

  • Hailstone
    Hailstone, Utah
    Hailstone, Utah was a town in Wasatch County. It was submerged in 1995 by the waters of Jordanelle Reservoir along with Keetley, Utah.Hailstone was located at the junction of US-40 and US-189, seven miles north of Heber....

  • Hale
    Hale, Utah
    Hale is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah. The site lies just to the east of Scofield Reservoir, at an elevation of 7598 feet . In fact, the reservoir covers the upper part of town. Like the other nearby towns of Scofield and Winter Quarters, Utah, Hale was a coal mining camp....

  • Hamblin
  • Harper
    Harper, Utah
    Harper is a ghost town located in Nine Mile Canyon in the southern part of Duchesne County, Utah, United States. This stagecoach town came into existence in 1886. The nearest inhabited town is Wellington...

  • Harrisburg
    Harrisburg, Utah
    Harrisburg is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States. Established as Harrisville in 1859, the town was flooded by the Virgin River in 1862, causing the residents to move farther up the river. Soon after, the town's name was changed to Harrisburg...

  • Hebron
    Hebron, Utah
    -External links:* *...

  • Heiner
  • Hiawatha
    Hiawatha, Utah
    Hiawatha is a ghost town, formerly a coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. The town is located at the base of Gentry Mountain, some 12 miles southwest of Price. It used to be a vibrant mining town, with a population of above 1,500 in the 1940s...

  • Homansville
  • Home of Truth
    Home of Truth, Utah
    Home of Truth is a ghost town located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, United States. The settlement was a short-lived utopian religious intentional community in the 1930s, led by a spiritualist named Marie Ogden...

  • Ingersoll
  • Iosepa
  • Iron City
  • Jackson
    Jackson, Utah
    Jackson is a ghost town in the western desert of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It lay on the western end of the Lucin Cutoff, just west of the Great Salt Lake. Jackson was never much more than a railroad siding, named by the railroad for a prospector who operated a mine in the area...

  • Johnson
  • Joy
  • Keetley
    Keetley, Utah
    Keetley is a ghost town located in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. It began as a mining community, with a spur of the Union Pacific Railroad increasing the economic interest in the community for a short time. The village was submerged by the waters of Jordanelle Reservoir in 1995 along with...

  • Kelton
    Kelton, Utah
    -External links:* by Randy W. Lewis* at Utah State History...

  • Kimberly
    Kimberly, Utah
    - External links :* at GhostTowns.com* at Ghost Towns of Utah...

  • Kiz
    Kiz, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com*...

  • Knightsville
    Knightsville, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • La Plata
    La Plata, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Lark
    Lark, Utah
    Lark is a ghost town located west of Herriman in the Oquirrh Mountains of southwest Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Lark was the location of several copper mines.-History:...

  • Latuda
  • Lincoln
  • Linwood
    Linwood, Utah
    Linwood was a small, unincorporated village in north-central Daggett County, Utah, USA, near the Wyoming state line. The town, located along Henrys Fork of the Green River about 5 miles east of the county seat of Manila, was first settled in the 1890s...

  • Lucin
    Lucin, Utah
    Lucin is an abandoned railroad community in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, along the western side of the Great Salt Lake, northwest of Salt Lake City.- History :...

  • Lund
    Lund, Utah
    Lund is a small unincorporated village located in the Escalante Valley of northwestern Iron County, Utah, United States, about 35 miles northwest of Cedar City. The town, established in the early twentieth century, was a station stop on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad , and was a community...

  • Mammoth
    Mammoth, Utah
    Mammoth is a semi-ghost town in northeastern Juab County, Utah, United States about three miles south of Eureka and two miles east of Tintic Junction....

  • McCornick
    McCornick, Utah
    -External links:* at Ghost Towns of Utah...

  • Mercur
    Mercur, Utah
    Mercur is a historical hard rock mining ghost town located at in Tooele County, Utah, USA. Its elevation from sea level is approximately 2,042m...

  • Mill Fork
  • Miners Basin
    Miners Basin, Utah
    Miners Basin or simply Basin is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1898 to 1908.- History :Miners Basin was settled among the La Sal Mountains. Copper was discovered in the area in 1888, but a mining town was not established until 1898, when the recently...

  • Modoc
  • Mohrland
    Mohrland, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Mosida
  • Mountain Dell
  • Mutual
  • National
    National, Utah
    National is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. It is located along upper Gordon Creek.-History:Coal was discovered in the area in 1908, but large-scale mining didn't begin until the National Coal Company purchased the mines in the 1920s. All of the buildings in National were...

  • Newhouse
    Newhouse, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Notom
  • Osiris

  • Paria
    Paria, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Peerless
    Peerless, Utah
    Peerless is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah. It is located just three miles west of Helper.- History :In 1916, of land were purchased by William and Charles Sweet. They immediately began to develop coal mining operations. In 1917, the Sweets sold the property to the Peerless Coal Company....

  • Priesthood Camp
  • Rainbow
  • Richardson
  • Rockport
    Rockport, Utah
    Rockport is a ghost town in a narrow part of Weber Valley at the mouth of Three Mile Canyon in Summit County, Utah, United States. Located south of Wanship, it was inhabited for nearly a century before the creation of Rockport Reservoir, which covered almost the whole townsite.-History:The first...

  • Rockwell's Station
  • Round Valley
  • Royal
    Royal, Utah
    Royal is a ghost town that existed in the early 1900s as a small coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Originally called Bear Canyon, the town was renamed Cameron, Rolapp, and finally Royal, changing names each time a new owner took over. All that remains of Royal today are some...

  • Russian Settlement
    Russian Settlement, Utah
    Russian Settlement is a ghost town in the Park Valley area of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is not known what name, if any, the settlers gave to their community; it has been called "Box Elder County's ghost town with...

  • Sage Creek
  • Scranton
    Scranton, Utah
    Scranton is a ghost town in Tooele County, Utah, United States. Located in Barlow Canyon near the Juab County line, it was a short-lived mining town. Scranton has been uninhabited for nearly a century, but some of its ruins have survived relatively intact....

  • Sego
    Sego, Utah
    Sego is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah, United States. It lies in the narrow, winding Sego Canyon, in the Book Cliffs some north of Thompson Springs. Formerly an important eastern Utah coal mining town, Sego was inhabited about 1910–1955...

  • Silver City
    Silver City, Utah
    Silver City is a ghost town located at the mouth of Dragon Canyon on the west flank of the East Tintic Mountains in northeast Juab County in central Utah, United States. It was a silver mining town approximately south-southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. This area was considered part of the Tintic...

  • Silver Reef
    Silver Reef, Utah
    Silver Reef is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States, about northeast of St. George and west of Leeds. Silver Reef was established after John Kemple, a prospector from Nevada, discovered a vein of silver in a sandstone formation in 1866. At first, geologists were uncertain about...

  • Soldier Summit
    Soldier Summit, Utah
    Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah and a ghost town located at the pass. Soldier Summit has been an important transportation route between the Wasatch Front and Price, Utah since the area was settled by the Mormon pioneers. It is on the route of both...

  • Spring Canyon
    Spring Canyon, Utah
    Spring Canyon, also called Storrs, is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs, after the mine superintendent. The name of the town was changed to Spring...

  • Standardville
    Standardville, Utah
    Standardville is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Standardville was established after coal was discovered in the area in 1912. The layout of the town was so well-planned, it became the "standard" for all mining towns to follow, which resulted in the town name of Standardville. In...

  • Stateline
  • Sulphurdale
    Sulphurdale, Utah
    Sulphurdale is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, United States. Sulphurdale was established in 1870, but mining did not begin in large scale until 1883. Homes, a school, a store and company offices were built in town. Despite the heavy mining activity, high quality sulfur was difficult to find....

  • Sunshine
  • Terrace
    Terrace, Utah
    Terrace is a ghost town, located in the Great Salt Lake Desert in west-central Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The town was established in 1869 as a Central Pacific Railroad "division point" , on the route of the First Transcontinental Railroad...

  • Thistle
    Thistle, Utah
    Thistle is a ghost town in Utah County, Utah, United States, about southeast of Salt Lake City. During the era of steam locomotives, the town's primary industry was servicing trains for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad...

  • Tonaquint
  • Tucker
    Tucker, Utah
    Tucker is a ghost town located in Utah County, Utah, below Soldier Summit on U.S. Route 6 through Spanish Fork Canyon. It was once an important loading point and construction camp on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. After the town was abandoned, the state of Utah used the town site for...

  • Upper Kanab
  • Upton
  • Valley City
  • Verdure
  • Victor
    Victor, Utah
    Victor is a ghost town in Emery County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1910 to 1920.-History:Victor was established in 1910, when a burst dam treated the soil near Desert Lake with alkaline water, preventing farming. Residents of Desert Lake, a town located near the lake, had to...

  • Vipont
  • Wahsatch
    Wahsatch, Utah
    Wahsatch is a ghost town in Summit County, Utah, United States. It lies along I-80 at the northeastern end of Echo Canyon some east of Echo, and only west of Evanston, Wyoming. Wahsatch was established as a railroad camp, later achieving local prominence in sheep ranching...

  • Washakie
  • Watson
  • Wattis
  • Welby
  • Westwater
  • Widtsoe
    Widtsoe, Utah
    Widtsoe is a ghost town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. Located in John's Valley northeast of Bryce Canyon and along the Sevier River at the mouth of Sweetwater Creek, the town existed about 1908–1936.-History:...

  • Willow Creek
  • Willow Valley
  • Winter Quarters
    Winter Quarters, Utah
    Winter Quarters is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal was discovered in the area in 1875, and later that year, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company began coal mining operations. A group of coal miners were delayed during an early winter storm in 1877, which led to the town's name...

  • Woodrow
  • Woodside
    Woodside, Utah
    Woodside is a ghost town located on the west bank of the Price River in the nearly uninhabited eastern part of Emery County, Utah, United States. Its fenced-in filling station is one of the only signs of human activity along the lonely stretch of U.S...

  • Yost
    Yost, Utah
    Yost is a ghost town located in northwestern Box Elder County, Utah, on the north central slopes of the Raft River Mountains, some 115 miles northwest of Brigham City. The first name for the area was "George Creek" for a man named George, an early range rider who came to the area with Charles Yost...



Beaver
Beaver County, Utah
As of the census of 2010, there were 6,629 people, 2,265 households, and 1,697 families residing in the county. The population density was 2.56 people per square mile . There were 2,908 housing units at an average density of 1.12 per square mile...

  • Frisco
    Frisco, Utah
    Frisco is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, USA. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929.-History:Frisco developed as the post office and commercial center for the San Francisco Mining District, and was the terminus of the Utah Southern Railroad extension from Milford. The Horn Silver...

  • Lincoln
  • Newhouse
    Newhouse, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Sulphurdale
    Sulphurdale, Utah
    Sulphurdale is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, United States. Sulphurdale was established in 1870, but mining did not begin in large scale until 1883. Homes, a school, a store and company offices were built in town. Despite the heavy mining activity, high quality sulfur was difficult to find....


Box Elder
Box Elder County, Utah
Box Elder County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies on the north end of the Great Salt Lake, covering a large area north to the Idaho border and west to the Nevada border. Included in this area are large tracts of barren desert, contrasted by high, forested mountains. The...

  • Blue Creek
    Blue Creek, Utah
    Blue Creek is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It was a railroad settlement that started as a Union Pacific camp during the final stages of construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad....

  • Cedar Creek
    Cedar Creek, Utah
    Cedar Creek is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. Founded in the 1860s, Cedar Creek was a farming town. Businesses included a school, an inn, and a store. The interstate highway system built through Cedar Creek and the nearby communities of Snowville and Park Valley...

  • Golden
    Golden, Utah
    Golden is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is located west of Park Valley, near the southern base of the Raft River Mountains.-History:...

  • Jackson
    Jackson, Utah
    Jackson is a ghost town in the western desert of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It lay on the western end of the Lucin Cutoff, just west of the Great Salt Lake. Jackson was never much more than a railroad siding, named by the railroad for a prospector who operated a mine in the area...

  • Kelton
    Kelton, Utah
    -External links:* by Randy W. Lewis* at Utah State History...

  • Lucin
    Lucin, Utah
    Lucin is an abandoned railroad community in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, along the western side of the Great Salt Lake, northwest of Salt Lake City.- History :...

  • Russian Settlement
    Russian Settlement, Utah
    Russian Settlement is a ghost town in the Park Valley area of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is not known what name, if any, the settlers gave to their community; it has been called "Box Elder County's ghost town with...

  • Terrace
    Terrace, Utah
    Terrace is a ghost town, located in the Great Salt Lake Desert in west-central Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The town was established in 1869 as a Central Pacific Railroad "division point" , on the route of the First Transcontinental Railroad...

  • Vipont
  • Washakie
  • Yost
    Yost, Utah
    Yost is a ghost town located in northwestern Box Elder County, Utah, on the north central slopes of the Raft River Mountains, some 115 miles northwest of Brigham City. The first name for the area was "George Creek" for a man named George, an early range rider who came to the area with Charles Yost...


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  • La Plata
    La Plata, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Willow Valley

Carbon
Carbon County, Utah
Carbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. Named for the major coal deposits in the area, the county seat and largest city, is Price. Carbon County is the second largest natural gas producer in Utah , with 94 billion cubic feet produced in 2008. As of 2010 the population was...

  • Castle Gate
    Castle Gate, Utah
    Castle Gate is a ghost town located in Carbon County in eastern Utah, USA. Castle Gate was a mining town approximately southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. The name of the town was derived from a rock formation near the mouth of Price Canyon...

  • Coal City
    Coal City, Utah
    Coal City is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal City was established in 1885, and soon after it was established, coal was discovered in the area. Small-scale mining began to take place, and because the mining operations were a mile or two away from the mines at National and...

  • Hale
    Hale, Utah
    Hale is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah. The site lies just to the east of Scofield Reservoir, at an elevation of 7598 feet . In fact, the reservoir covers the upper part of town. Like the other nearby towns of Scofield and Winter Quarters, Utah, Hale was a coal mining camp....

  • Heiner
  • Hiawatha
    Hiawatha, Utah
    Hiawatha is a ghost town, formerly a coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. The town is located at the base of Gentry Mountain, some 12 miles southwest of Price. It used to be a vibrant mining town, with a population of above 1,500 in the 1940s...

  • Kiz
    Kiz, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com*...

  • Latuda
  • Mutual
  • National
    National, Utah
    National is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. It is located along upper Gordon Creek.-History:Coal was discovered in the area in 1908, but large-scale mining didn't begin until the National Coal Company purchased the mines in the 1920s. All of the buildings in National were...

  • Peerless
    Peerless, Utah
    Peerless is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah. It is located just three miles west of Helper.- History :In 1916, of land were purchased by William and Charles Sweet. They immediately began to develop coal mining operations. In 1917, the Sweets sold the property to the Peerless Coal Company....

  • Royal
    Royal, Utah
    Royal is a ghost town that existed in the early 1900s as a small coal mining town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Originally called Bear Canyon, the town was renamed Cameron, Rolapp, and finally Royal, changing names each time a new owner took over. All that remains of Royal today are some...

  • Spring Canyon
    Spring Canyon, Utah
    Spring Canyon, also called Storrs, is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs, after the mine superintendent. The name of the town was changed to Spring...

  • Standardville
    Standardville, Utah
    Standardville is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Standardville was established after coal was discovered in the area in 1912. The layout of the town was so well-planned, it became the "standard" for all mining towns to follow, which resulted in the town name of Standardville. In...

  • Wattis
  • Winter Quarters
    Winter Quarters, Utah
    Winter Quarters is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal was discovered in the area in 1875, and later that year, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company began coal mining operations. A group of coal miners were delayed during an early winter storm in 1877, which led to the town's name...


Daggett
Daggett County, Utah
Daggett County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 1,059 at the 2010 census. It was named for Ellsworth Daggett, the first surveyor-general of Utah. Its county seat and only municipality is Manila. There is one other small community, Dutch...

  • Bridgeport
    Bridgeport, Utah
    Bridgeport was the community name given to a small ranching area in far eastern Daggett County, Utah, USA, near the Colorado border. The Bridgeport store, saloon and post office were located on the north side of the Green River near the mouth of Jesse Ewing Canyon, near the western end of Browns...

  • Greendale
    Greendale, Utah
    Greendale was the community name given to a small ranching area in the Uinta Mountains of south-central Daggett County, Utah, USA. During the early and mid twentieth century, the Greendale area was home to a small number of homestead families who primarily operated small cattle ranches in the...

  • Linwood
    Linwood, Utah
    Linwood was a small, unincorporated village in north-central Daggett County, Utah, USA, near the Wyoming state line. The town, located along Henrys Fork of the Green River about 5 miles east of the county seat of Manila, was first settled in the 1890s...


Emery
Emery County, Utah
Emery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000 the population was 10,860, and by 2009 had been estimated to decrease to 10,629. It was named for George W. Emery, governor of the Utah Territory in 1875...

  • Connellsville
  • Desert Lake
    Desert Lake, Utah
    Desert Lake is a ghost town in Emery County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1885 to about 1910.-History:In 1885, several families moved from the town of Cleveland, Utah to an area they called Desert Lake, and built a embankment dam to impound a irrigation reservoir. In 1896, the dam...

  • Mohrland
    Mohrland, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Victor
    Victor, Utah
    Victor is a ghost town in Emery County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1910 to 1920.-History:Victor was established in 1910, when a burst dam treated the soil near Desert Lake with alkaline water, preventing farming. Residents of Desert Lake, a town located near the lake, had to...

  • Woodside
    Woodside, Utah
    Woodside is a ghost town located on the west bank of the Price River in the nearly uninhabited eastern part of Emery County, Utah, United States. Its fenced-in filling station is one of the only signs of human activity along the lonely stretch of U.S...


Garfield
Garfield County, Utah
Garfield County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000 the population was 4,735. It was named for James A. Garfield, President of the United States in 1881. Its county seat and largest city is Panguitch.-Geography:...

  • Asay
  • Eagle City
    Eagle City, Utah
    Eagle City is a ghost town located in Garfield County, Utah, United States. Nestled in Bromide Basin high in the remote Henry Mountains of southern Utah, it was a gold mining camp. Eagle City was settled about 1890, but was almost abandoned by the start of World War I...

  • Osiris
  • Widtsoe
    Widtsoe, Utah
    Widtsoe is a ghost town in Garfield County, Utah, United States. Located in John's Valley northeast of Bryce Canyon and along the Sevier River at the mouth of Sweetwater Creek, the town existed about 1908–1936.-History:...


Grand
Grand County, Utah
Grand County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000 the population was 8,485, and by 2005 had been estimated at 8,743. It was named for the Colorado River, which at the time of statehood was known as the Grand River. Its county seat and largest city is Moab.-Geography:According...

  • Castleton
  • Cisco
    Cisco, Utah
    Cisco is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah near the junction of State Route 128 and Interstate 70. At one time the town served as a saloon and water-refilling station for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The town's demise came with the demise of the steam locomotive. The town site...

  • Dewey
    Dewey, Utah
    Dewey is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah. Originally named Kingsferry, it began in the 1880s when Samuel King built and operated a ferry across the Grand River . A small community soon developed around the ferry, although it never grew large. The town served as a ferry crossing until the Dewey...

  • Elgin
  • Miners Basin
    Miners Basin, Utah
    Miners Basin or simply Basin is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah, United States. It was inhabited from 1898 to 1908.- History :Miners Basin was settled among the La Sal Mountains. Copper was discovered in the area in 1888, but a mining town was not established until 1898, when the recently...

  • Richardson
  • Sego
    Sego, Utah
    Sego is a ghost town in Grand County, Utah, United States. It lies in the narrow, winding Sego Canyon, in the Book Cliffs some north of Thompson Springs. Formerly an important eastern Utah coal mining town, Sego was inhabited about 1910–1955...

  • Valley City
  • Westwater

Iron
Iron County, Utah
As of the census of 2000, there were 33,779 people, 10,627 households, and 8,076 families residing in the county. The population density was 10 people per square mile . There were 13,618 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...

  • Iron City
  • Lund
    Lund, Utah
    Lund is a small unincorporated village located in the Escalante Valley of northwestern Iron County, Utah, United States, about 35 miles northwest of Cedar City. The town, established in the early twentieth century, was a station stop on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad , and was a community...

  • Stateline

Juab
Juab County, Utah
Juab County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000 the population was 8,238, and by 2005 had been estimated at 9,113. It was named from an Indian word meaning thirsty valley, or possibly only valley. Its county seat and largest city is Nephi.Juab County is part of the...

  • Diamond
  • Fish Springs
  • Joy
  • Knightsville
    Knightsville, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Mammoth
    Mammoth, Utah
    Mammoth is a semi-ghost town in northeastern Juab County, Utah, United States about three miles south of Eureka and two miles east of Tintic Junction....

  • Silver City
    Silver City, Utah
    Silver City is a ghost town located at the mouth of Dragon Canyon on the west flank of the East Tintic Mountains in northeast Juab County in central Utah, United States. It was a silver mining town approximately south-southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. This area was considered part of the Tintic...


Kane
Kane County, Utah
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,046 people, 2,237 households, and 1,628 families residing in the county. The population density was 2 people per square mile . There were 3,767 housing units at an average density of 1 per square mile...

  • Georgetown
  • Johnson
  • Paria
    Paria, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Upper Kanab

Millard
Millard County, Utah
Millard County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. In 2010, its population was 12,420. It was named for Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States. Its county seat is Fillmore and the largest city is Delta.-Geography:...

  • Black Rock
    Black Rock, Millard County, Utah
    Black Rock was a small, unincorporated village located in southern Millard County, Utah, about 20 miles north of Milford. The town was a station stop on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad , and was a community center for a small number of early twentieth century homesteaders and ranchers. A...

  • Clear Lake
  • Ingersoll
  • McCornick
    McCornick, Utah
    -External links:* at Ghost Towns of Utah...

  • Woodrow

Piute
Piute County, Utah
Piute County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. The population in 2000 was 1,435, and by 2005 had been estimated to decrease to 1,365. It was named for the Paiute tribe of Native Americans. The county seat is Junction and the largest city is Circleville.-Geography:According to the U.S...

  • Alunite
    Alunite, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Bullion
  • Kimberly
    Kimberly, Utah
    - External links :* at GhostTowns.com* at Ghost Towns of Utah...


Rich
Rich County, Utah
Rich County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. The southern half of Bear Lake and the Bear Lake Valley lie on the northern edge of the county. The Bear River Valley lies in most of the eastern portion of the county. The elevation of these valleys is close to , and the rest of the county...

  • Argyle
    Argyle, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Round Valley
  • Sage Creek

Salt Lake
Salt Lake County, Utah
Salt Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. It had a population of 1,029,655 at the 2010 census. Its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. It occupies Salt Lake Valley, as well as parts of the surrounding mountains, the Oquirrh Mountains to the west...

  • Bacchus
  • Bingham Canyon
    Bingham Canyon, Utah
    Bingham was a city formerly located in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, in a narrow canyon on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains. The Bingham Canyon area boomed during the first years of the twentieth century, as rich copper deposits in the canyon began to be developed,...

  • Garfield
  • Lark
    Lark, Utah
    Lark is a ghost town located west of Herriman in the Oquirrh Mountains of southwest Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Lark was the location of several copper mines.-History:...

  • Modoc
  • Mountain Dell
  • Priesthood Camp
  • Rockwell's Station
  • Welby

San Juan
San Juan County, Utah
As of the current census of 2010, there were 14,746 people and 4,505 households. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 50.4% Native American, 45.8% white, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% African American and 2.3% reporting two or more races...

  • Home of Truth
    Home of Truth, Utah
    Home of Truth is a ghost town located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, United States. The settlement was a short-lived utopian religious intentional community in the 1930s, led by a spiritualist named Marie Ogden...

  • Fry Canyon
    Fry Canyon, Utah
    Fry Canyon was a small community in San Juan County, Utah, USA, located in Fry Canyon, on State Route 95 and just south of White Canyon. Fry Canyon was a uranium boom town during the 1950s...

  • Verdure

Summit
Summit County, Utah
Summit County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a rugged and mountainous area. In 2010 its population was 36,324. It is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Clearfield Combined Statistical Area. The county is...

  • Blacks Fork
    Blacks Fork, Utah
    Blacks Fork, also known as Blacks Fork Commissary, is a ghost town in Summit County, Utah, United States. Named for the Blacks Fork River, it was a logging town that operated from 1870 to 1930.-History:...

  • Castle Rock
  • Grass Creek
    Grass Creek, Utah
    -External links:* at Summit County Historical Society...

  • Rockport
    Rockport, Utah
    Rockport is a ghost town in a narrow part of Weber Valley at the mouth of Three Mile Canyon in Summit County, Utah, United States. Located south of Wanship, it was inhabited for nearly a century before the creation of Rockport Reservoir, which covered almost the whole townsite.-History:The first...

  • Upton
  • Wahsatch
    Wahsatch, Utah
    Wahsatch is a ghost town in Summit County, Utah, United States. It lies along I-80 at the northeastern end of Echo Canyon some east of Echo, and only west of Evanston, Wyoming. Wahsatch was established as a railroad camp, later achieving local prominence in sheep ranching...


Tooele
Tooele County, Utah
Tooele County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000, the population was 40,735 and by 2005 was estimated at 51,311. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele....

  • Ajax
    Ajax, Utah
    -External links:* at Tooele County Guide to Historical Attractions...

  • Delle
    Delle, Utah
    Delle is a small unincorporated community in Tooele County, Utah, along Interstate 80 near the Bonneville Salt Flats. The town has never had more than a few residents and has served primarily as a filling station along the I-80 corridor...

  • Gold Hill
    Gold Hill, Utah
    Gold Hill is a small, unincorporated community in far western Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah near the Nevada state line. The town, located near the Deep Creek Mountains, was the center of a mining district that was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, producing...

  • Iosepa
  • Mercur
    Mercur, Utah
    Mercur is a historical hard rock mining ghost town located at in Tooele County, Utah, USA. Its elevation from sea level is approximately 2,042m...

  • Scranton
    Scranton, Utah
    Scranton is a ghost town in Tooele County, Utah, United States. Located in Barlow Canyon near the Juab County line, it was a short-lived mining town. Scranton has been uninhabited for nearly a century, but some of its ruins have survived relatively intact....

  • Sunshine

Uintah
Uintah County, Utah
This page deals with the Utah County. For the Wyoming County, see Uinta County, Wyoming.Uintah County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000 the population was 25,224 and by 2009 was estimated at 31,536. It was named for the Ute Indians, the tribe that lives in the basin. Its...

  • Bullionville
  • Dragon
    Dragon, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Dyer
  • Rainbow
  • Watson
  • Willow Creek

Utah
Utah County, Utah
Utah County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000, the population was 368,536 and by 2008 was estimated at 530,837. It was named for the Spanish name for the Ute Indians. The county seat and largest city is Provo...

  • Colton
    Colton, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com* at Legends of America...

  • Dividend
  • Forest City
    Forest City, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com...

  • Homansville
  • Mill Fork
  • Mosida
  • Thistle
    Thistle, Utah
    Thistle is a ghost town in Utah County, Utah, United States, about southeast of Salt Lake City. During the era of steam locomotives, the town's primary industry was servicing trains for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad...

  • Tucker
    Tucker, Utah
    Tucker is a ghost town located in Utah County, Utah, below Soldier Summit on U.S. Route 6 through Spanish Fork Canyon. It was once an important loading point and construction camp on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. After the town was abandoned, the state of Utah used the town site for...


Wasatch
Wasatch County, Utah
Wasatch County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. It was named for a Ute Indian word meaning mountain pass or low place in the high mountains. Its county seat and largest city is Heber City.The county is governed by a county council with an appointed county manager.Wasatch County is...

  • Hailstone
    Hailstone, Utah
    Hailstone, Utah was a town in Wasatch County. It was submerged in 1995 by the waters of Jordanelle Reservoir along with Keetley, Utah.Hailstone was located at the junction of US-40 and US-189, seven miles north of Heber....

  • Keetley
    Keetley, Utah
    Keetley is a ghost town located in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. It began as a mining community, with a spur of the Union Pacific Railroad increasing the economic interest in the community for a short time. The village was submerged by the waters of Jordanelle Reservoir in 1995 along with...

  • Soldier Summit
    Soldier Summit, Utah
    Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah and a ghost town located at the pass. Soldier Summit has been an important transportation route between the Wasatch Front and Price, Utah since the area was settled by the Mormon pioneers. It is on the route of both...


Washington
Washington County, Utah
As of the census of 2000, there were 90,354 people, 29,939 households, and 23,442 families residing in the county. The population density was 37 people per square mile . There were 36,478 housing units at an average density of 15 per square mile...

  • Adventure
    Adventure, Utah
    Adventure was an early settlement in Washington County, Utah, United States, established in 1860 by Philip Klingensmith and five other people from Iron County. They formed a small settlement as part of the cotton growing colony in the area, at a place a couple of miles up the Virgin River from...

  • Duncan's Retreat
    Duncan's Retreat, Utah
    -External links:* at GhostTowns.com* at Sons of Utah Pioneers...

  • Grafton
    Grafton, Utah
    Grafton is a ghost town, just south of Zion National Park in Washington County, Utah, United States. Said to be the most photographed ghost town in the West, it has been featured as a location in several films, including 1929's In Old Arizona—the first talkie filmed outdoors—and the...

  • Hamblin
  • Harrisburg
    Harrisburg, Utah
    Harrisburg is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States. Established as Harrisville in 1859, the town was flooded by the Virgin River in 1862, causing the residents to move farther up the river. Soon after, the town's name was changed to Harrisburg...

  • Hebron
    Hebron, Utah
    -External links:* *...

  • Silver Reef
    Silver Reef, Utah
    Silver Reef is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States, about northeast of St. George and west of Leeds. Silver Reef was established after John Kemple, a prospector from Nevada, discovered a vein of silver in a sandstone formation in 1866. At first, geologists were uncertain about...

  • Tonaquint

Wayne
Wayne County, Utah
Wayne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. It was formed from Piute County in 1892. The county gets its name from a man who served as delegate to the constitutional convention, in honor of his son who was dragged to death by a horse. As of 2000 the population was 2,509, and by...

  • Caineville
  • Fruita
    Fruita, Utah
    Fruita is the best-known settlement in Capitol Reef National Park in Wayne County, Utah, United States. It is located at the confluence of Fremont River and Sulphur Creek.-History:...

  • Giles
    Giles, Utah
    -External links:* at Ghost Towns of Utah...

  • Notom
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