Dividend was a company town built by Tintic Standard after a 1916 silver strike, dismantled in the late 1940s and now sits beside active mining ground. What the records show, and why it is a roadside view only.
Bauer, in Tooele County, was a railhead, a mine-drainage outlet, an orchard and a flotation mill before it was abandoned in 1979 and capped by the EPA. What the records show, and why it is closed to visitors.
Mammoth and Robinson were two halves of one Tintic mining community, from the 1870 Mammoth claim to the 1929 dissolution of Mammoth City. What the records support, what is folklore, and why access is limited.
Knightsville was a company mining camp on Godiva Mountain above Eureka, built in 1896–97 by Jesse Knight, who barred saloons, closed his mines on Sunday and paid a wage premium. About 1,000 people lived there at the peak. By about 1940 the houses had been moved to Eureka, and a concrete school foundation is the main thing left.
Iosepa was a Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Latter-day Saint colony in Utah’s Skull Valley from 1889 to 1917. It grew into a green, award-winning farm town with piped water, then emptied after a temple was announced in Hawai’i. The cemetery and monument remain, and descendants still gather there every Memorial Day.
St. Thomas was a Mormon farming town at the Muddy and Virgin rivers — founded in 1865, emptied once over a tax dispute, rebuilt, then deliberately evacuated and drowned beneath Lake Mead in 1938. As the reservoir rises and falls, the town keeps reappearing. Here’s the documented history, the Hugh Lord legend, and how to walk the ruins today.
Home › Utah Ghost Towns › Grafton Ghost Town Grafton Ghost Town, Utah: The Pioneer Settlement That Floods Built and a Canal Killed Utah Mormon Settlements Free to visit · ~13 min read Quick facts Original settlement (Wheeler)December 1859 Relocated as Grafton1862 (after Great Flood) Peak population168 (1864) Final abandonment1944 Schoolhouse built1886 Primary industryCotton, fruit…