Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Corinne, UT

Corinne is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, on the west bank of the Bear River, and it is the last town on the river before it enters the marsh complexes leading to the Great Salt Lake.

The city had a population of 809 at the 2020 census, with 281 households, up from 685 residents in 2010.

Corinne was founded on March 25, 1869, and incorporated on February 18, 1870, and it was named by founder General J. A. Williamson for his fourteen-year-old daughter.

For almost ten years after its founding, Corinne prospered as the unofficial Gentile Capital of Utah, a town settled by people of different religions and even those with no religious affiliation, unlike most pioneer communities in the territory.

Corinne was designed as the freight-transfer point for goods shipped to the mining towns of western Montana along the Montana Trail, and in its heyday it had some 1,000 permanent residents, fifteen saloons, and sixteen liquor stores.

Corinne is nicknamed the Gateway to the Golden Spike because of its role in the railroad era around the 1869 meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific at Promontory Summit.

The town's leaders tried to have Corinne named the capital of Utah and to have the northern one degree of latitude of Utah added to Idaho, but failed in each case.

Corinne declined after Brigham Young and the Mormon people built the narrow-gauge Utah Northern Railroad from Ogden to Franklin, Idaho, and the Union Pacific bought the line in 1877 and pushed it north, cutting the Montana Trail and supplanting wagon traffic from Corinne.

Corinne Lodge No. 5, chartered on November 11, 1873, was the first Utah Masonic Lodge north of Salt Lake City.

The Corinne Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic landmark in the city.