The Story of One of Utah’s Smallest Towns

Utah has many small towns, and one of them, Scofield, is in Carbon County. 

According to Carbonutah.com, Carbon County was settled in the 1870s but came to be in the 1880s when the railroad came through the area and the coal fields were discovered. 

Visitutah.com states that settlers were drawn to the area in the 1870s because of the large tracts of grazing land available and named the area Pleasant Valley. 

During the mining boom of the 1920s, the town of Scofield was bustling with twelve stores, thirteen saloons, a post office, four large hotels, and a population of more than 6,000 residents. 

Also, according to visitutah.com, Scofield State Park gets its name from General Charles W. Scofield, a lumberjack who went on to become the president of Utah’s first coal mining company. Scofield’s population dwindled when the mines depleted. 

Scofield now has a population of 26 according to the latest census data from 2020 making it one of Utah’s smallest towns.  

According to thetravel.com, these are some of Southern Utah's smallest towns: 

Brian Head (Population of 151)

Kingston (Population of 135)

Hatch (Population of 132)

Alton (Population of 118) 

Antimony (Population of 118)