Dragon (Utah)
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Name (Latin)
Dragon (Utah)
Other forms of name
Dragon Ghost Town (Utah)
Dragon Junction (Utah)
Coordinates
W1090422 W1090422 N0394709 N0394709 (gnis )
Associated country
United States
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Sources of Information
- Utah Place Names, 1990(Dragon (Uintah) was on Evacuation Creek at the mouth of Dragon Canyon; The town received its names from the nearby Black Dragon Mine; The Mine was discovered in the 1860s and when the Uintah Railroad first went through it was known as Dragon Junction)
- UALC Digital Library Collection, 2002(Dragon (Utah))
- GNIS, June 10, 2002(Dragon, populated place, Uintah County, Utah, Variant Names: Dragon Ghost Town 39deg. 47min. 09sec.N 109deg. 04min. 22sec.W)
- Getty, June 10, 2002(Dragon (inhabited place) Uintah County, Utah, variant names: Dragon Ghost Town 39deg. 47min.N 109deg. 04min.W)
- Utah Place Names, 1990(Dragon (Uintah) was on Evacuation Creek at the mouth of Dragon Canyon; The town received its names from the nearby Black Dragon Mine; The Mine was discovered in the 1860s and when the Uintah Railroad first went throughit was known as Dragon Junction)
Wikipedia description:
Dragon is a ghost town in Uintah County, at the extreme eastern edge of Utah, United States. Founded in about 1888 as a Gilsonite mining camp, Dragon boomed in the first decade of the 20th century as the end-of-line town for the Uintah Railway. Although it declined when the terminus moved farther north in 1911, Dragon survived as the largest of the Gilsonite towns. It was abandoned after its mining operations stopped in 1938 and the Uintah Railway went out of business in 1939.
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