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Antimony is an incorporated town in Garfield County, in the high valleys of south-central Utah.

The town had a population of 118 at the 2020 census, down from 122 in 2010 and well below its 1940 peak of 245.

A party of 22 men came to the area in 1873 on a mission to make peace with the local Fish Lake band of Indians, caught several coyote pups here, and named the place Coyote.

The first permanent settlement was established under the name of Coyote in 1878.

In 1880, deposits of the antimony ore stibnite were found in Coyote Canyon and a mining industry began, which led to the town being renamed Antimony in 1921.

Antimony was incorporated as a town in 1934.

The town covers roughly 10 square miles, all of it land, and sits at an elevation of 6,453 feet.

The American Discovery Trail runs through Antimony.

Antimony has a humid continental climate, with large seasonal temperature differences between warm to hot summers and cold, sometimes severely cold, winters.

Antimony is known throughout Central Utah for its Fourth of July fireworks display, which gives out free bottle rockets and free sparklers for anyone over the age of 3, and the display was moved from the town park to the bluffs overlooking Otter Creek Reservoir.