Black Rock, Utah | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Utah#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Black Rock |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Utah |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Millard |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1876 |
Extinct Title: | Abandoned |
Extinct Date: | 1959 |
Elevation Ft: | 4856 |
Coordinates: | 38.7083°N -112.9583°W |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1425709 |
Black Rock is an unincorporated community and near-ghost town in the Beaver Bottoms in southern Millard County, Utah, United States, approximately 20miles north of Milford.[1]
The town was a station stop on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific Railroad), and was a community center for the few settlers in the area during the late nineteenth century. As area roads and vehicular travel improved beginning in the twentieth century, its relative importance waned. A post office operated at Black Rock from 1891 to 1959.[2] The site is now a ghost town although there is at least one occupied home in or near the town.
The town was named for a nearby rock formation.[3]