Carbonville is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Carbon County,
Utah
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, United States. The population was 1,383 at the
2020 census.
Geography
Carbonville lies just northwest of
Price
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, the
county seat
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of Carbon County. The
Price River and
U.S. Route 6
U.S. Route 6 (US 6) or U.S. Highway 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the United States Numbered Highway System. While it ...
run past on the west, and the historic community of
Spring Glen is to the north.
History
Carbonville was one of the first settlement sites in what became Carbon County. Caleb Rhoades built a
dugout here in 1877, before moving on to found Price in 1879. Later called "Rhoades Meadow", the place had plenty of water, but of poor quality.
[
The village grew slowly, with most immigrants preferring the more developed areas of Price and Spring Glen. Carbonville did experience rapid growth in the industrial and housing boom years after ]World War II
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. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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organized the first ward
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Division or unit
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here in the late 1940s, and a second one in the 1950s.[
]
Demographics
As of the census[ of 2010, there were 1,567 people living in the CDP. There were 669 housing units. The racial makeup of the CDP was 90.0% White, 0.3% Black or African American, 1.6% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.1% Asian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 5.7% from some other race, and 2.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.3% of the population.
]
See also
* List of census-designated places in Utah
This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Utah. At the 2010 census, there were 81 CDPs in Utah. That number dropped to 79 in 2016 when first Dutch John then Millcreek incorporated, and to 74 when five in Salt La ...
References
External links
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Census-designated places in Utah
Census-designated places in Carbon County, Utah