Ghost Towns, Utah
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- Alunite — Ghost Town · Piute County, UT
World War I–era mining camp at the mouth of Cottonwood Canyon about five miles south of Marysvale, Piute County. It was built to process alunite for potash a…
- Black Rock (Millard) — Ghost Town · Millard County, UT
Near-ghost railroad community in the Beaver Bottoms of southern Millard County, about twenty miles north of Milford, named for nearby dark rock formations. A…
- Castle Gate — Ghost Town · Carbon County, UT
Coal company town at the mouth of Price Canyon where the Denver & Rio Grande once threaded the Book Cliffs approaches. Remembered for the 1924 mine disaster …
- Cisco — Ghost Town · Grand County, UT
Cisco is a withered railroad and highway stop in Grand County’s open desert east of Moab. Once a water and crew point on the D&RGW and later a Route 6/50 ser…
- Clifton — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Abandoned Clifton Mining District camp at the north end of the Deep Creek Mountains, predecessor to nearby Gold Hill. Gold discovery in the late 1850s–1860s …
- Diamond — Ghost Town · Juab County, UT
Early Tintic Mining District camp on Diamond Gulch, settled 1870 after quartz crystals were mistaken for diamonds. Grew to stores, saloons, a school, and rou…
- Dividend — Ghost Town · Utah County, UT
Tintic Mining District camp east of Eureka, a true ghost with assorted mill and residential ruins from silver-lead production. Field pin for district-road mi…
- Dragon — Ghost Town · Uintah County, UT
Gilsonite mining camp and former Uintah Railway terminus at the mouth of Dragon Canyon near the Colorado line in eastern Uintah County. Named for the Black D…
- Eagle City — Ghost Town · Garfield County, UT
Remote gold-camp ghost town in Bromide Basin on the western Henry Mountains. Settled around 1890 to serve the Bromide and Oro mines along Crescent Creek; bri…
- Frisco — Ghost Town · Beaver County, UT
Frisco was a violent 1870s–80s silver boomtown in Utah’s San Francisco Mountains, remembered for charcoal kilns, a cemetery, and mine ruins in Beaver County.…
- Giles — Ghost Town · Wayne County, UT
Mormon farming settlement on the Fremont River in Blue Valley, Wayne County, inhabited about 1883–1919 and named for Bishop Henry Giles. Fertile soils and a …
- Gold Hill — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Remote west-desert mining town near the Deep Creek Mountains, established after 1870s discoveries and revived for copper, gold, arsenic, silver, lead, and tu…
- Grafton — Ghost Town · Washington County, UT
Grafton sits on the Virgin River south of Zion, one of Utah’s most photogenic ghost towns. Mormon settlers farmed here from the 1860s until floods and isolat…
- Hebron — Ghost Town · Washington County, UT
Pioneer ranching town on Shoal Creek in western Washington County (1862–1902), first called Shoal Creek then platted as Hebron. It supplied mining camps incl…
- Iosepa — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Iosepa was a Hawaiian Latter-day Saint colony in Skull Valley, Tooele County (1889–1917). Families farmed the desert under harsh conditions before many retur…
- Joy — Ghost Town · Juab County, UT
BLM-listed mining ghost townsite in the Drum Mountains of the west desert, founded in the 1870s (Detroit Mining District). Field remains are sparse building …
- Kelton — Ghost Town · Box Elder County, UT
Kelton was a Central Pacific/railroad town on the north edge of the Great Salt Lake desert in Box Elder County. After the Lucin Cutoff bypassed the Promontor…
- Kenilworth — Ghost Town · Carbon County, UT
Coal-camp community in the Book Cliffs above Helper/Price, a semi-ghost with substantial original housing fabric from the Carbon County coal era. Field pin f…
- Kimberly — Ghost Town · Piute County, UT
High-elevation gold camp on Gold Mountain in the Tushar Mountains of northwest Piute County, roughly 8,970 feet. Boom years 1901–1908 centered on the Annie L…
- Latuda — Ghost Town · Carbon County, UT
Spring Canyon coal camp in Carbon County, opened after Francisco Latuda and Charles Picco secured coal land in 1917 and launched the Liberty mine under Liber…
- Lucin — Ghost Town · Box Elder County, UT
Abandoned Central Pacific / Lucin Cutoff railroad oasis on the west side of the Great Salt Lake desert. Foundations, a root cellar, and spring-fed ponds rema…
- Lund — Ghost Town · Iron County, UT
Remote Union Pacific railroad town on the Escalante Desert west of Cedar City, once a branch-line junction and supply point for the Iron County hinterland. T…
- McCornick — Ghost Town · Millard County, UT
Failed irrigation-colony town in Whiskey Creek Flat, Millard County, about eleven miles northwest of Holden. Promoted in 1919 by the Sevier River Land and Wa…
- Mercur — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Hard-rock mining ghost town in the Oquirrh Mountains of Tooele County, noted as the site of the first successful commercial cyanide gold process in the Unite…
- Modena — Ghost Town · Iron County, UT
Living railroad ghost town on State Route 56 in far western Iron County near the Nevada line. Founded in 1899 as a Utah and Nevada Railway / Los Angeles and …
- Newhouse — Ghost Town · Beaver County, UT
Early-1900s company town built by financier Samuel Newhouse for the Cactus Mine on the west flank of the San Francisco Mountains. Stone walls, mill foundatio…
- Old Irontown — Ghost Town · Iron County, UT
Ruins of the 1868–1876 Mormon iron colony once called Iron City, founded as a second attempt to smelt ore from Iron Mountain after Cedar City’s furnace faile…
- Osiris — Ghost Town · Garfield County, UT
Abandoned agricultural settlement in Black Canyon on SR-22 south of Antimony. Field focus is the towering early-20th-century creamery/granary ruin and stone …
- Paria — Ghost Town · Kane County, UT
Pahreah/Paria was a Paria River Mormon farming settlement (1870–1929) repeatedly wrecked by floods, later a Hollywood western backdrop. The townsite cemetery…
- Sego — Ghost Town · Grand County, UT
Sego was a coal camp in a side canyon north of Thompson Springs, Grand County. Company housing, a tipple, and rail spurs served mines that fed steam locomoti…
- Shauntie — Ghost Town · Beaver County, UT
Short-lived 1870s silver camp in the Wah Wah / southern Beaver desert west of Milford country. A thin west-desert ghost pin for a named mining settlement tha…
- Silver City — Ghost Town · Juab County, UT
Tintic Mining District silver camp (est. 1869) at the mouth of Dragon Canyon on the west flank of the East Tintic Mountains. Townsite largely gone; smelter/m…
- Silver Reef — Ghost Town · Washington County, UT
Silver Reef is a rare silver-in-sandstone camp in Washington County, Utah, active mainly in the late 1870s. Miners chased ore in the Springdale Sandstone—an …
- Sulphurdale — Ghost Town · Beaver County, UT
Sulfur-mining company town south of Cove Fort (production era roughly 1883–1960s). Schoolhouse and a few structures remain beside active geothermal country; …
- Terrace — Ghost Town · Box Elder County, UT
Central Pacific Railroad division point established in 1869 on the First Transcontinental Railroad grade across the Great Salt Lake Desert in western Box Eld…
- Thistle — Ghost Town · Utah County, UT
Thistle became a modern ghost town overnight in April 1983 when a massive landslide dammed Spanish Fork River and flooded the railroad/highway community. Par…
- Tucker — Ghost Town · Utah County, UT
Railroad and construction camp in Spanish Fork Canyon that supported Denver & Rio Grande mountain work and later highway eras. Once a small canyon settlement…
- Victor — Ghost Town · Emery County, UT
Short-lived Castle Valley agricultural ghost town east of Elmo, settled about 1910 when alkaline floodwater ruined farming at nearby Desert Lake and families…
- Widtsoe — Ghost Town · Garfield County, UT
Failed dry-farming town in Johns Valley, Garfield County northeast of Bryce, occupied roughly 1908–1936 under successive names Adairville, Houston, and Winde…
- Winter Quarters — Ghost Town · Carbon County, UT
Abandoned Pleasant Valley coal camp above Scofield Reservoir, site of the May 1, 1900 Winter Quarters Mine disaster—still one of the deadliest underground co…
- Woodside — Ghost Town · Emery County, UT
Railroad and ranching settlement on the Price River and U.S. 6/191 in eastern Emery County, established in 1881 as Lower Crossing for Denver & Rio Grande Wes…