Linwood was an unincorporated village in north-central
Daggett County,
Utah
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, United States, near the
Wyoming
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state line.
Description
The town, situated along Henrys Fork of the
Green River, was approximately five miles east of the county seat of
Manila
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and was first settled in the 1890s. The nearby bottomland was used for
irrigated
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agriculture, and
sheep
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ranches operated in the more arid lands to the north.
By the 1920s, the town of Linwood was in decline due to farm consolidation and road improvements that made larger communities more accessible to local residents. In the late 1950s, the federal government purchased the Linwood area as part of its land acquisition for the
Flaming Gorge Reservoir project. The remaining buildings in Linwood were razed or moved, and the townsite is now underwater; no trace of the former community remains.
A United States post office operated at Linwood from 1903 to 1958.
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
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1890s establishments in Utah
1950s disestablishments in Utah
Ghost towns in Utah
Submerged places in the United States
Ghost towns in Daggett County, Utah
Populated places disestablished in the 1950s
Populated places established in the 1890s
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