Thistle
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1878
- Population
- 0
- Coordinates
- 39.991, -111.498
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: During the era of steam locomotives, the town's primary industry was servicing trains for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad.
History
Thistle is a ghost town in Spanish Fork Canyon in southeastern Utah County, Utah, United States. During the era of steam locomotives, the town's primary industry was servicing trains for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The fortunes of the town were closely linked with those of the railroad until the changeover to diesel locomotives, when the town started to decline.