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Clawson is a town in Emery County, Utah, located along Utah State Route 10 about 7 miles southwest of Castle Dale, the county seat, and 3.5 miles northeast of Ferron.

The 2020 census counted 162 residents in Clawson, nearly unchanged from 163 in 2010.

Before settlement the area was known as North Flat, and a canal carrying water from Ferron Creek was completed there in 1896.

The first settlers arrived in 1897 and called the community Kingsville after Guy King, one of the original settlers.

The first school opened in 1898 in Guy King's home, where teacher Florence Barney rode 14 miles on horseback each day to teach.

In 1902 the Ferron bishopric chose a permanent townsite near the Westingkow farm two miles west, and the settlers moved their log cabins there because the old site could become swampy.

On October 25, 1904, LDS Apostle Rudger Clawson organized a ward in the town, and the community was renamed Clawson in his honor.

After decades as an unincorporated community, Clawson was incorporated as a town in 1981.

The town sits at an elevation of about 5,942 feet in northwestern Emery County.

Clawson has a humid continental climate, with warm to hot summers and cold, sometimes severely cold, winters.