Hale 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
Carbon 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 ...
. The site lies just to the east of
Scofield Reservoir, at an elevation of . The reservoir covers the upper part of town. Like the other nearby towns of
Scofield and
Winter Quarters, Utah, Hale was a
coal mining
Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ...
camp.
References
Ghost towns in Carbon County, Utah
Mining communities in Utah
Ghost towns in Utah
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