![]() It also includes Native American residences. Five Hundred Utah Place Names This book provides the history and origin of the name of each place, including names of places and landmarks that no longer exist.It gives the approximate dates each town was settled and then deserted. A history of towns that no longer in exist in Utah. The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns.The American West : Overland journeys, 1841-1880.Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures.Ghost towns of the mountain West : your guide to the hidden history and Old West haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada.This source gives the date and the new post office designated to receive the mail. It provides the dates of establishment for each post office and if a post office was discontinued. The Post Offices of Utah lists Utah Post Offices both past and current.The opening and closing of a Post Office would give you approximate dates that the town was a thriving community. Try state wide resources for information on this formally busy town: Try the following sources in neighboring communities. If not the neighboring city, try the local county offices. Ghost Town Records Ĭheck the closest city for public records about your ancestor. Town is functional, yet still dramatically much smaller than when at its boom years. Towns could be full of deserted buildings may have a busy historic community. 7.Restored town, state park, replica of a former town, fort, or community.6.Entire towns comprised of many old, abandoned buildings but with a few residents still living there.A small resident population, many abandoned buildings with close proximity to more recently built and occupied homes, farms and ranches. 4.Uninhabited towns with boarded up or abandoned buildings (with roofs), no population, except perhaps a caretaker.3.Many ruins mark the site, roofless building, or leftovers from demolished buildings.2.Barren site where nature has reclaimed the land, only a remnant reveals the location such as stone or brick rubble.1.Towns with no trace to be found of the former site, only an estimated location.Miscellaneous types - towns whose origins don’t fall into one of the above three types.The Central Pacific rail camps tended to be more permanent with homes of adobe and brick while the Union Pacific Camps were more of a tent city type. Most disappeared but some eventually developed into permanent settlements. ![]() Hundreds of temporary camps were set up along the way. Railroad towns - established as the Transcontinental Railroad was built.Most were established during the initial colonization by Latter-day Saint settlers. Agricultural towns - the most numerous type of Utah’s ghost towns.Utah miners dug for silver, copper, coal, lead, zinc, and tungsten. Mining towns – Mining operations brought in settlers that lived close to the mine.Philip Varney, the author of several popular ghost town books defines these old communities as: "any site that has had a markedly decreased population from its peak, a town whose initial reason for settlement (such as a mine or railroad) no longer keeps people in the community." Clusters of Ghost Towns dot the state of Utah some leaving behind a few relics and most leaving behind unmarked graves. Some have remaining buildings, a few have a ‘skeleton crew’ that stayed behind to watch over things, and others disappear completely. Once they were bustling with activity, becoming boom towns, then when the source of their posterity ebbs, they begin to fade and sometimes eventually die. When a gold or silver strike happened, towns would spring up, seemingly overnight and just as quickly fade away. They could be stagecoach stops, railroad camp town, mining community, military post or agricultural towns. Some towns may still be quite active and residents may not favor the classification of a ghost town for their community. These towns have greatly diminished from their once robust times. A ghost town could be many things: a near ghost town, semi-ghost town or completely vacant buildings or ground.
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