Philo T. Farnsworth was the inventor of several critical electronic devices that made television possible, including the cathode ray tube. He was also the first to create table-top nuclear-fusion[4].
Butch Cassidy was a notorious western outlaw.
Beaver also has the distinction of being the first town in Utah to be electrified. A hydroelectric generation plant was constructed on the Beaver River early in the 20th century. The plant continues to provide a large part of Beaver's power requirements today.
Big Water
Big Water made news in the 1980s as a polygamous colony of the Joseph clan.
It also made news in 1986, when the mayor Alex Joseph and the city council left the Republican Party to join the Libertarian Party. This made Joseph the first Libertarian mayor in the history of the US.
Brian Head
Brian Head is the location of the Brian Head Ski Resort.
Brigham City
It is currently the headquarters of ATK Thiokol, the company that created the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle
Golden Spike National Historic Site
Popular Culture
Brigham City was the namesake of American movie director, producer, writer, and actor Richard Dutcher's 2001 film Brigham City about murder in a fictitious small Mormon town, although it is not actually about the real Brigham City. Due to geography and population, the movie was actually filmed in Mapleton, Utah.[6]
Movies that have scenes filmed in Brigham City include The Work and the Story, Species, and Clay Pigeons.[7]
The company Smith's Food and Drug was started in Brigham City.
The company Flying J was started in Brigham City and operated there as one of the largest privately held companies until a few years ago when it relocated its headquarters to the local city of Ogden, Utah.
The LDS Church President Brigham Young, for whom Brigham City is named, gave his final public address in the city. The place where he gave his address is called Pioneer Park and is the location of the municipal swimming pool and several baseball diamonds, as well as being the location of the city's annual Fourth of July fireworks display.
The LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow is buried in the Brigham City cemetery.
In October 2009 it was announced that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be building a Temple in Brigham City, which will be Utah's 14th Temple.
Lorenzo Snow - fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Founded and lived in the city; is buried in the Brigham City cemetery.
Boyd K. Packer - President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church. Taught LDS seminary in Brigham City.
Allan F. Packer - General authority of the LDS Church.
Rob Bishop - former school teacher at Box Elder High and current member of the United States House of Representatives. Represents Utah's 1st congressional district.
Joseph Howell - former U.S. Representative.
Charles W. Nibley - presiding bishop of the LDS Church and a member of the church's First Presidency.
Larry L. Richman - magazine and website publisher for the LDS Church.
Morris D. Rosenbaum - prominent businessman in early Utah and one of the few Jewish people to join the LDS Church during the 19th century.
William J. Critchlow, Jr. - General authority of the LDS Church.
Brooke Walker - News anchor for Salt Lake City based KSL-TV.
Cedar Hills
Notable People
Chad Lewis - Former NFL Tight End for the Philadelphia Eagles
Ben Cahoon - Receiver for the Montreal Alouettes
Circleville
Notable People
Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, spent his childhood in Circleville. He grew up in a small cabin, just south of Circleville, between Richfield and Panguitch on Highway 89
Clarkston
Clarkston is most noted for being the last home of Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon. He is buried in Clarkston and every other year a pageant commemorates his life
Ephraim F. Richard Nibley (April 29, 1913 – September 1979) was an American violinist, composer, and educator
Linnie Taylor Marchant Findlay (April 22, 1919 – January 10, 2009)[1] was a writer-historian
Farmington
The city has made it onto the Money magazine's "Best Places to Live" index, and was ranked number 14 on the 2009 list
Lagoon Amusement Park is located in Farmington
Ferron
The town is famous in Utah for bull riders, having produced three champions in the 1990s.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Glendale
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
An entrance to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is right in the center of town in Glendale. This rustic and scenic road meets with Skutumpah Road, running through the Grand Staircase and ending at the Grand Staircase Visitor Center in Cannonville, near Bryce Canyon.
Glenwood
Notable People
Art Acord, an American silent film actor and rodeo champion, born in Prattsville (small unincorporated community generally considered part of Glenwood, though not technically within the official city boundaries).
Jacob Peter Anderson, a botanist who collected throughout Alaska from 1914 to 1940 while employed by the federal government. His collection of approximately 30,000 specimens is now housed in the University of Alaska Museum of the North. Mount Anderson (Alaska) is named for him. Born in Glenwood in 1874.[6][7]
Elmer Cook, amateur paleontologist credited for originally bringing the fossils in the area of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument to the attention of the scientific community; Trigonictis cooki (also known as Cook's Grison) was named after him. Born in Glenwood.[8]
Harvey Matusow, McCarthy era personality - town resident[9]
Ephraim P. Pectol, helped create the Capitol Reef National Park - born in Glenwood[10]
LeConte Stewart, a Mormon artist and former head of the Art Department at the University of Utah - born in Glenwood in 1891
Grantsville
Notable People
Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Hanksville
Hanksville was a supply post for Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, who would hide out at Robbers Roost in the desert southeast of town.
During the uranium mining frenzy following World War II, Hanksville became a supply center for the prospectors and miners scouring the deserts of the Colorado Plateau. Many abandoned mines can be found in the deserts surrounding the town.
Highland
Notable People
Blair Buswell - American artist who specializes in sports sculptures.
Ashly DelGrosso - Dancer who starred on Dancing with the Stars for the first three seasons.
Brandon Mull - Writer, best known as the author of the popular Fablehaven series.
Jay Osmond - One of the original Osmond Brothers.
Thurl Bailey - A retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, whose career spanned from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Fraser Bullock - An American entrepreneur who is the Managing Director of Sorenson Capital and former COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Hildale is the headquarters of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Many adults in the community practice plural marriage. Since most government officials — including the police force — are FLDS members, some critics have likened the community's atmosphere to that of a prison, which is the result of attempts to discourage any of the town's women from attempting to leave the polygamous lifestyle.[3] In January 2004, the FLDS leader and prophet, Warren Jeffs, expelled a group of twenty men, including the mayor, and "gave" their wives and children to other men. Jeffs said he was acting on the orders of God, but the men he expelled claimed they were penalized for disagreeing with Jeffs. Observers say this is the most severe split to date within the community. Jeffs was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and was eventually apprehended on August 28, 2006 in Las Vegas. On September 25, 2007, Jeffs was convicted of being an accomplice to rape for performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old first cousin. The United Effort Plan, the financial arm of the FLDS owns most of the property in the town.
The Colorado City/Hildale, Utah area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency, an extremely rare genetic condition which causes severe mental retardation. Geneticists attribute this to the prevalence of cousin marriage between descendants of two of the town's founders, Joseph Smith Jessop and John Yates Barlow. At least half of the double community's inhabitants are descended from one or both men
Holladay
Holladay is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in Utah, since Salt Lake City was abandoned for a time in 1857 when Johnston's Army occupied the city.
Huntington
Mine disaster On Monday, August 6, 2007, at 2:48 A.M. (MST), UtahAmerican Energy's Crandall Canyon Mine, 15 miles (24 km) west north-west of Huntington, collapsed trapping 6 workers inside. The mine, located just off State Route 31, is about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Fairview, and 140 miles (225 km) south of Salt Lake City (100 miles, or 161 km, on a flight line). The workers are approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from the mine entrance and 1500 feet (457 m) underground. The collapse registered recorded seismic waves in magnitude 3.9 to 4.0, by seismograph stations of the University of Utah.[4][5][6] As of August 16, 2007 at about 6:30pm MDT, three rescue workers were killed and six injured, as the tunnel the workers were digging collapsed on top of them, covering them with coal and rubble.[7][8] The six men who were not killed outright were unable to be rescued after the rescue mission was forced to halt and died as well
Hurricane
Notable People
Taylor Vaifanua, who made to the Top 36 of the reality TV show American Idol.[citation needed]
Staff Sergeant Travis Terpstra from Comanche Company 1-2 Stryker Cavalry Regiment, received the Bronze Star for valor in the Sadr City uprising April 2008. His platoon was ambushed by a IED initiated complex ambush, three days into the conflict.[citation needed]
Wrestler Don Leo Jonathan was born in Hurricane
Kanab
Locals refer to Kanab as "Little Hollywood" due to its history as a filming location for western movies and television series such as Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Planet of the Apes, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Lone Ranger, and Stagecoach.[5]
Kanab is situated in the "Grand Circle" area, centrally located among Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon (North Rim), and Zion National Park.
Other nearby attractions include Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, the privately owned Moqui Cave, and the largest animal sanctuary in the United States, Best Friends Animal Society
Controversy
On January 10, 2006, the mayor and city council passed Resolution 1-1-06R, titled The Natural Family: A Vision for the City of Kanab, codifying the definition of a "natural family": "We envision a local culture that upholds the marriage of a man to a woman, and a woman to a man, as ordained of God... We see our homes as open to a full quiver of children, the source of family continuity and social growth. We envision young women growing into wives, homemakers, and mothers; and we see young men growing into husbands, home-builders, and fathers."[7] The text of Kanab's Natural Family Resolution is identical to a draft resolution created by the Sutherland Institute, a political think tank based in Utah that works towards public policy reform to reflect its notion of "traditional values". Echoing language from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Family: A Proclamation to the World, the Sutherland Institute wrote the resolution and sent it to every city in Utah, hoping to see it adopted in as many places as possible. Kanab was the only city to do so.
Kanab Ambersnail
Three Lakes, a privately-owned wet meadow near Kanab, is one of only two natural habitats for the Kanab Ambersnail, a snail species which was listed as an endangered species in 1992 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a species of conservation priority for the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
Laketown
Notable People
John Brown, fantasy author
La Verkin
The city made national headlines in 2001 when the City Council passed an ordinance declaring La Verkin a "United Nations-free zone".
Musuem of Ancient Life - Lehi
Lehi
Lehi Roller Mills was immortalized in the 1984 production of Footloose. It was featured as Ren McCormack's (Kevin Bacon) workplace and as the site of the dance
Museum of Ancient Life - The Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point first opened in 2000. A group of Utah paleontologists approached Thanksgiving Point with an idea to build a world-class dinosaur museum. Together, they planned and assembled the exhibits of the Museum of Ancient Life, one of the world's largest collections of mounted fossils.[19][20] The museum's goal was to take collections out of cases and put them into an immersive environment.
The museum also features a large movie screen auditorium named the Mammoth Screen 3D Theater. During museum hours, the theater shows large format science films relevant to the museum's collections and exhibition.
Notable People
Garett Bolles, lineman for NFL's Denver Broncos
Tony Finau, professional golfer playing on the PGA Tour
Wilford Brimley, actor
The Brown Family, subject of the TLC Show Sister Wives (former residents)
Paul Cummings, Olympic runner, half-marathon (former) world record holder
Porter Rockwell, bodyguard to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young
Eldred G. Smith, Patriarch to the Church for The Church of Jesus Christ
The Manti Utah Temple
Manti
The Manti Utah Temple, one of the first temples built by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is found in Manti and dominates the area's skyline.
The city is also the headquarters of a polygamist offshoot of the mainstream LDS Church, the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days.
Manti annually hosts the two-week long Mormon Miracle Pageant, one of the city's greatest sources of revenue
Mapleton
Notable People
Wally Joyner, a former professional Baseball player with the Anaheim Angels San Diego Padres and Kansas City Royals (among others), currently resides in Mapleton.
Frank C. Robertson was an author best known for his 150 plus western novels. He resided in Mapleton from 1937 until his death in 1969
The 2001 film Brigham City was actually filmed in Mapleton, instead of the film's namesake, Brigham City, Utah
Midway
Midway Swiss Days brings thousands of people to the town
Midway was the site of the 2002 Olympics cross-country and biathlon events at Soldier Hollow.
The community is also known for the large "hot-pot" or geo-thermal caldera at the Homestead Resort. There is year-round scuba diving in the caldera's 90-95 degree water.
Midway stood in for the fictional town of Everwood, Colorado, in the closing scenes of the episode, "Foreverwood", the series finale of the TV show, Everwood. Background shots overlooking the town were filmed from Memorial Hill, with the Wasatch Mountain Range in the background.
Moab
Moab hosts a large number of tourists every year, mostly visitors of the Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, which are located close by.
The town is also a popular base for mountain bikers who come to ride the extensive network of trails including the famed Slickrock Trail, and off-roaders who come for the annual Moab Jeep Safari.
In 1949 the famed Western movie director John Ford was talked into using the area for the movie Wagon Master. Ford had been using the area in Monument Valley around Mexican Hat, Utah, south of Moab, since he filmed Stagecoach there 10 years earlier in 1939. A local Moab rancher found Ford and persuaded him to come take a look at Moab.[citation needed] There have been numerous movies filmed in the area ever since, using the beauty of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park as backdrops
Sunset Magazine's March 2009 issue listed Moab as one of the "20 best small towns in the West".
Moab has been used as a shooting location for films, TV programs and commercials, and music videos. Films Rio Grande (1950), Warlock (1958), The Comancheros (1961), Cheyenne Autumn (1963), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1963), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1988), Thelma and Louise (1990), City Slickers II (1994), Baraka (1992), RocketMan (1997), Mission: Impossible II (2000), and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).
The course for the pod races in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) is a computer-generated imagery montage of Moab area landmarks, including Angel Arch.
In the 1995 film Canadian Bacon, Moab is one of the launch locations for American missiles on the Hacker Hellstorm.
The film 127 Hours, based on the true story of a rock climber who got trapped and was forced to cut off his own arm, is being shot in the vicinity of Moab.
TV programs - Some examples include: Unearthed, an episode of Prison Break; an episode of the The Amazing Race; MacGyver; the second episode of Man vs. Wild; also included in Dave Gorman's America Unchained, shown on More4 in April 2008, which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Austin Film Festival. Episode 1 of The Tulse Luper Suitcases is partially set in Moab.
The "redrock country" of southern Utah—epitomized by Moab—has also become iconic and symbolic as a result of Warner Brothers' Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
Commercials
The Marlboro Man advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes;
General Motors; "Building America" campaign for Union Pacific Railroad;
Yella Wood advertising the brand name of pressure treated wood, and various others.
Music
Bon Jovi, "Blaze of Glory" music video
Mona
Burl Ives was once jailed in Mona for singing "Foggy Foggy Dew", because it was considered bawdy by the authorities.
One of the unique things about Mona is a farm growing lavender. 120 acres of lavender are planted on the north side of town[5]. Mona also has an annual Lavender Festival
Morgan
Morgan County is also the location where the film "Troll 2" was shot.
Naples
Notable People
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), Hollywood actor, artist, inventor, rodeo cowboy, Canadian Rodeo Hall of Fame, Utah Sports Hall of Fame, "Father of Modern Rodeo"
Nephi
Notable People
Brandon Flowers, of The Killers lived in Henderson, Nevada until Flowers was eight, when they moved to Nephi, Utah.[2] Flowers lived in Nephi until his junior year in Juab High School.
Martin Woolf, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1912–1921) was born in Nephi
Oak City
Oak City Nearly Hosted the A-Bomb Project Oak City in Millard County, Utah, was the search director's first choice for the atomic weapons laboratory. Maj. John Dudley of the Manhattan District Staff was assigned to survey the West and find potential sites for an atomic laboratory in October 1942. His first choice for the laboratory site was Oak City, Utah, according to the Los Alamos history. "It was a delightful little oasis in south central Utah," Dudley wrote. "The railroad was only 16 miles away over a nice, easy road. The airport was not too distant. The water supply was good. It was surrounded by hills, and beyond there was mostly desert. However, I noticed one thing: If we took over this area we would evict several dozen families and we would also take a large amount of farm acreage out of production." Because of the potential loss of farmland, Dudley recommended his second choice — Jemez Springs, New Mexico. In the end, Dudley's choice was overruled by J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. He favored Los Alamos
Oakley
Notable People
Richard Maynes, a member of the Quorum of the Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Orangeville
Mine disaster - Just 12 miles northwest of town is the Wilberg Mine, the site of a mine fire on 19 December 1984 which claimed 27 lives: 18 miners and 9 company officials. The disaster was the worst coal mine fire in Utah history. The escape route of the 27 persons was cut off when the fire quickly engulfed the intake of the 5th Right longwall. The fire was caused by a faulty air compressor, which was allowed to run unattended in an area that was not fire-proofed
Park City
The city is the main location of the United States' largest independent film festival, the Sundance Film Festival,
home of the United States Ski Team, training centre for members of the Australian Freestyle Ski Team,
the largest collection of factory outlet stores in northern Utah,
the 2002 Olympic bobsled/skeleton/luge track at the Utah Olympic Park,
Some scenes from 1994's Dumb and Dumber were shot in the city.
Outdoor-oriented businesses such as backcountry.com, Rossignol USA and Skullcandy have their headquarters in Park City.
Park City is the original home of the Mrs. Fields Cookies chain.
In 2008, Park City was named by Forbes Traveler Magazine among one of the 20 'prettiest towns' in the United States.[3] It continues to be published in top ski and adventure magazines across the world
Notable People
Ted Bundy: Serial Killer (Summit Park)
Bill Engvall: Blue Collar comedian
Stein Eriksen: 1952 Olympian, director of skiing at Deer Valley Resort.
Bud Feltman: 1964 Olympian, former VP of Scott and Smith USA Edward
J. Fraughton: Sculptor, Inventor
John W. Gallivan: publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune from 1960 to 1984
Tanner Hall: freestyle skier
George Hearst: founder of the news dynasty
Michael Jordan: Hall of Fame Basketball Player
Jim Nantz: Sportscaster
Thomas Kearns: U. S. Senator, 1901–1905
Ted Ligety: Olympic Gold Medal Skier
Harry Reems: 1970s porn star
Barry Sims: NFL offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, graduated from Park City High School
John Terry : Actor known for playing Christian Shephard on Lost
Roger J. Traynor: Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
Tom Wallisch : freestyle skier
Bryon Wilson : 2010 Olympic bronze medalist.
Treat Williams: Actor known for playing Dr. Andrew Brown in Everwood
Scott Wolf: Television and film actor best known for playing Bailey Salinger on Party of Five
John Schnatter: American businessman and founder of Papa John's Pizza
Trivia
Singer-songwriter Josh Kelley and actress Katherine Heigl were married in Park City on December 23, 2007.[12]
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer was filmed in Park City.
Everwood was shot in Park City.
Scenes from Dumb and Dumber were filmed in Park City.[13]
Daddy Day Care was filmed in Park City
One Tree Hill filmed one episode there, season 7 episode 22.
More than $400 million worth of silver ore was mined in Jupiter Peak, creating 23 millionaires, including U.S. Senator Thomas Kearns (Utah), an owner of the Silver King Coalition Mine, The Salt Lake Tribune and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad; and George Hearst, father of William Randolf Hearst founder of the Hearst newspaper dynasty. Johnny Tsunami, a Disney Channel TV movie, was filmed in part on Main Street.
Parowan
Notable People
Alma Richards - Utah's first olympic gold medalist, grew up in Parowan. Richards won the High Jump in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. His last request was to be buried in his hometown of Parowan, where his remains currently reside in the Parowan cemetery. Parowan High School's track and football stadium is named Alma Richards Stadium where a memorial is placed in his honor.
Ryan Tripp - Guinness Book of World Records holder from 1998 to 1999 for World's Longest Lawnmower ride. In 1997 Tripp set out from Salt Lake City and rode 3,116 miles (5,015 km) on his riding lawnmower, finishing in Washington D.C. Tripp also raised over $15,000 for a little girl's kidney transplant. In 1999, Tripp traveled to the capital city of all 50 states, raising awareness for Organ and Tissue Donation and mowed the Governor's Mansion with every state governor.
Scott M. Matheson - Governor of Utah from 1977 to 1985.
Payson
Payson is where most of the 1984 hit movie Footloose was filmed, in settings such as Payson High School and "Sudsie"s', an old and local car wash.
The town is also a film favorite for seminary videos filmed by the LDS Church. The popular Mormon film Baptists at our Barbecue was also shot on Payson's historic Main Street.
Most recently, Payson was used to film most of the Disney Channel movie Hatching Pete.
The city is known for being the birthplace of singer-songwriter Jewel.
Payson was the setting of the 1975 children's movie Banjo the Woodpile Cat. It tells of a cat who leaves his woodpile home on his owner's farm for the urban life of Salt Lake City and then returns to Payson with his new and old friends.
Several Disney movies and some LDS films have been filmed in the historic Payson area.
Price
Notable People
Harold Arceneaux - a professional basketball player who gained national attention during his collegiate career at Weber State University He played two seasons at the College of Eastern Utah in Price.
Dean and Lynn Fausett, painters of the American west
John D. Fitzgerald - an author known for his The Great Brain series of books for children.
Herman Franks - a former catcher, coach, manager, general manager and scout in American Major League Baseball.
Dave Lauriski - the head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration from 2001 to November 2004.
J. Bracken Lee - a political figure who served as mayor of Price from 1935 to 1947, then governor of the state of Utah from 1949 to 1957, and as mayor of Salt Lake City from 1960 to 1971.
Jean Westwood - a political figure who was the first female chair of the Democratic National Committee and worked on several presidential campaigns.
Marjorie Jones - Nationally published and award winning author of romance novels including The Jewel and the Sword, The Lighthorseman, and My Lady's Will. She is the winner of the Isolde Carlson Award of Excellence and was named the Utah Writer of the Year for 2005 by the Utah Chapter of the Romance Writers of America.
Cassandra Lynn - model, Playboy Playmate was born in Price
Randolph
Randolph had the highest percentage of people of any city in the country vote for George W. Bush in the 2004 election, at 95.6%
Richfield
Notable People
Jake Garn, served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah; the first member of the United States Congress to fly in space - born in Richfield Joseph Hansen, secretary and guard to Leon Trotsky in Mexico for the last three years before Trotsky was murdered - born in Richfield
Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the Frisbee - born in Richfield
Salina
Notable People
Earl W. Bascom, artist, sculptor, inventor, Hall of Fame rodeo cowboy, worked for J.A. Scorup on the Lost Creek Ranch
J. A. Scorup, Cowboy Hall of Fame inductee, rancher
The Salina, Utah, Prisoners of War massacre caused the death of nine German prisoners of war and the injury of 20 more. The incident happened on the night of July 7–July 8, 1945, two months after the German surrender.
Private Clarence V. Bertucci (September 14, 1921 - December 1969) returned to the camp from a night of drinking, and relieved the guard of the tower nearest the commanding officer's cabin. He proceeded to load and fire a .30 caliber machine gun into the German prisoners' tents. Within thirty seconds of the start, his belt of 250 rounds was expended. Nine were killed and 20 were injured.
The Scofield Mine Disaster - On May 1, 1900, an errant spark touched off the fine haze of coal dust deep underground and the Winter Quarters #4 mine exploded with fury. Exactly 100 of the men were killed in an instant and another 99 died from the poisonous afterdamp, making this one of the worst coal mine disasters in history. That one moment of time left 105 widows and 270 fatherless children behind. Almost 150 of the slain miners were buried in the cemetery in nearby Scofield and two special funeral trains carried the rest of the victims to burial grounds in Utah and in other states.
Notable People
Robert David Mullins Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, was born in Scofield on December 16, 1924.
South Weber
South Weber was home to the Morrisite War. On June 13, 1862, an estimated five hundred man army perched cannons atop the bluffs on the south side of the city, aimed at Joseph Morris. The war lasted three days, and ultimately resulted in the death of Joseph Morris, John Banks, and a few others. Upon seeing their leaders dead, the remainder of the Morrisites surrendered.
South Weber is also known for a week of Bigfoot sightings in February 1980. For one week, residents reported signs of the legendary Sasquatch. At the time, multiple residents saw the creature while feeding horses, smelled foul "bigfoot" odors, and found large patches of strange fur throughout the small community. Although no animal was ever found, the legend lives on.
Business Week Magazine named South Weber, UT the 6th best suburb in the country in 2009.
Spring City
One notable historical point, Orson Hyde, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is buried in the Spring City Cemetery.
Saltair, also The SaltAir, Saltair Resort, or Saltair Pavilion, is the name that has been given to several resorts located on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) from Salt Lake City
Tremonton
Notable People
W. Rolfe Kerr - LDS General Authority
Jay Silvester - U.S. Olympian, Former Men's Discus World Record Holder
Marlon Shirley - Two-time Paralympic 100m champion
Vernal
Vernal is one of the largest cities in the United States without a railway
Notable People
Earl W. Bascom - Inventor [1], Hall of Fame rodeo cowboy, actor, international artist and sculptor [2]
Lane Frost - Rodeo star, attended junior high school in Vernal
Gordon Gee - Academic, has held more university presidencies (5) than any other American
Douglas Kent Hall - writer and photographer [3], Academy Award winning writer, best-selling author, internationally renowned photographer
James Woods – Actor
Virgin
Mandatory Gun Ownership
In May 2000, a law was passed which required every homeowner to keep and maintain a firearm.[4] This was highlighted in Michael Moore's 2002 film "Bowling for Columbine"
Washington Terrace
The second to the last person in America to be executed by firing squad, John Albert Taylor, raped and murdered Charla King in Washington Terrace in 1988.
Mayor Mark Allen, was elected by the roll of the dice when the last election ended in a tie
Wellsville
Notable People
Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy, international artist, inventor, Utah Sports Hall of Fame inductee worked for the McBride Ranch of Wellsville in 1934.
The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of many salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake. It is public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is known for land speed records at the Bonneville Speedway. Access to the Flats is open to the public.
Woodruff
Notable People
Merlo J. Pusey, journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
Woods Cross
Maddox, an American internet satirist famous for his site The Best Page in the Universe, and authour of the book "The Alphabet of Manliness", is a graduate of the Woods Cross High School.
