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Bingham Canyon, Utah: The Copper City Its Own Mine Devoured
ByDarrel Bishop August 14, 2026August 14, 2026

Home › Utah Ghost Towns › Bingham Canyon Bingham Canyon, Utah: The Copper City Its Own Mine Devoured UtahCopper MiningMining era · 1848–197216 min read Settled 1848 — mining from 1863 Peak population ~15,000 (1920s) Population today 0 — razed 1972 Elevation ~6,000 ft, Oquirrh Mountains County Salt Lake County, Utah Status Erased — site…

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Garfield, Utah: The Company Town That Was Moved Away One House at a Time
ByDarrel Bishop August 8, 2026August 13, 2026

At its peak Garfield was a company town of 3,500 on the Great Salt Lake shore. In 1955 its owners condemned it — and moved all 394 houses to Magna, one at a time.

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Little Valley, Utah: The Industrial Boomtown Built to Cross a Lake
ByDarrel Bishop August 8, 2026August 13, 2026

Little Valley was a company town engineered from nothing on the Great Salt Lake shore — a 1,300-person industrial camp that built the causeway carrying the Southern Pacific across the lake, then vanished within months of finishing the job in 1959.

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