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The Utah Territory Legislature was petitioned to split off the north part, and thus it established Carbon County effective March 8, 1894. It was named for the element Carbon, to emphasize the industrial nature of the area.

Today, Carbon County continues to mine coal. Also, a large Utah Power and Light power plant is located in the county, burning coal to produce steam which eventually produces power. Price, the county seat, has a large collection of dinosaur bones found in the Prehistoric Museum at the Utah State University Eastern.

Spatial Facts Area Size: Utah is 84,900 square miles and ranked the 11th largest state (in terms of square miles) in the U.S. Length: 350 miles. Width: 270 miles. Highest and Lowest Points: Kings Peak reaches an unbelievable 13,528 ft in the Uinta Mountains while the Beaver Dam Wash holds strong at a modest 2,350 ft.

Today, Carbon County continues to mine coal. Also, a large Utah Power and Light power plant is located in the county, burning coal to produce steam which eventually produces power. Price, the county seat, has a large collection of dinosaur bones found in the Prehistoric Museum at the Utah State University Eastern.

Coal mining became a big part of the county. Coal companies built lots of company towns. They brought in southern and eastern European and Japanese laborers to work in the mines and on railroad gangs. Helper became known as the town of “57 Varieties” because of its ethnic diversity.

Today, this old road still displays many remnants of those more prosperous times including the ghost towns of Standardville, Rains, Peerless, Mutual, and Storrs.

Its county seat and largest city is Price. Utah's location within the U.S. The Price, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Carbon County.

Our History Its gets its name from deposits of anthracite coal. Jim Thorpe, the county seat, was originally incorporated on January 26, 1850 as the Borough of Mauch Chunk, an Indian name meaning “bear mountain.” It was renamed in 1954 for olympian, Jim Thorpe, the famous Indian athlete who is buried there.