Spring Canyon
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1912
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 39.704, -110.920
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town.
History
Spring Canyon, also called Storrs, is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs, after the mine superintendent. The name of the town was changed to Spring Canyon in 1924. 1,000 tons of coal per day were mined from 1924 to 1943, and during World War II, coal production peaked at 2,000 tons of coal per day. By 1946, the need for coal diminished, and people began to leave. By 1969, Spring Canyon was abandoned.