Sevier is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in southwestern Sevier County

Sevier County, Utah

As of the census of 2000, there were 18,842 people, 6,081 households, and 4,907 families residing in the county. The population density was 10 people per square mile . There were 7,016 housing units at an average density of 4 per square mile...

, Utah

Utah

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, United States

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. It lies in the valley of the Sevier River

Sevier River

The Sevier River , extending , is the longest Utah river entirely in the state and drains an extended chain of mountain farming valleys to the intermittent Sevier Lake...

 along U.S. Route 89 southwest of the city of Richfield

Richfield, Utah

Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Utah, in the United States, and is the largest city in southern-central Utah. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,551. It lies in the Mormon Corridor, just off of Interstate 70 about 40 miles east of its junction with...

, the county seat

County seat

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 of Sevier County. Its elevation is 5,584 feet (1,702 m). Although Sevier is unincorporated, it has a post office

Post office

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, with the ZIP code

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 of 84766. It has a population of about 80 people. Sevier has many farms.

Sevier has experienced rapid population growth in the 1990s and 2000s, and seasonal migrant laborers, mostly of Mexican

Mexican people

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 and other Hispanic

Hispanic

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nationalities, made the population transfluid over the course of the year.