Cedarview is a
ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in eastern
Duchesne County
Duchesne County ( ) is a county in the northeast part of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 19,596. Its county seat is Duchesne, and the largest city is Roosevelt.
History
Much of Duchesne County ...
,
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
, United States,
Description
The former community is located just off (west) of
Utah State Route 121, about midway between
Roosevelt
Roosevelt most often refers to two American presidents:
* Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919, president 1901–1909), 26th president of the United States
* Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945, president 1933–death), 32nd president of the United State ...
and
Neola. There is a cemetery in the former community, that operated until 1936; many babies who died of
pneumonia
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are buried there. A few locals from nearby towns are preserving the cemetery from natural threats like
erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as Surface runoff, water flow or wind) that removes soil, Rock (geology), rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust#Crust, Earth's crust and then sediment transport, tran ...
.
History
Cedarview was founded in 1912 when travelers needed a rest stop during a snowstorm. The town was short-lived and never got a post office.
See also
*
List of ghost towns in Utah
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Utah, a state of the United States.
Classification
Barren site
* Sites no longer in existence
* Sites that have been destroyed
* Covered with water
* Reverted to pasture
* May have a few dif ...
References
External links
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Ghost towns in Utah
Ghost towns in Duchesne County, Utah
Populated places established in 1912