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Emery is a town in Emery County, Utah, and the 2020 census counted 307 residents.

The town was established in 1881 on Muddy Creek, first settled by families from Sanpete County who came east over the mountains, and it was named for territorial governor George W. Emery.

The first settlers lived in dugouts and log cabins, and bringing Muddy Creek water to the new townsite required a tunnel dug by hand over nearly three years, with crews working from opposite sides of a hill through unstable Mancos shale and meeting nearly perfectly.

The Emery LDS Church, built between 1898 and 1900, is the oldest surviving religious building in town.

The Rochester Rock Art Panel, left by the Fremont people about 3 miles west of Emery, is a significant Fremont site, and artifacts such as pottery, manos, and metates have been found along Muddy and Ivie creeks.

Emery sits at the base of mountains holding the North Horn Formation, and Flagstaff Peak north of town has abundant dinosaur bone material, prehistoric mammal remains, and petrified dinosaur footprints.

A herd of feral horses and burros managed east of Emery in the San Rafael Swell descends from animals lost by travelers on the Old Spanish Trail, which crossed the eastern part of the present townsite.

Emery lies in western Emery County along Utah State Route 10, about 25 miles northeast of Castle Dale, the county seat, and 12 miles southwest of Interstate 70.

Ranching and farming have always been the town's major livelihood, and after World War II the population fell and generally hovered around 300 residents.

On November 2, 1967, a cone-shaped F2 tornado destroyed the Last Chance Motel at the unusual hour of 5:30 a.m., throwing furniture and bedding hundreds of yards, with no injuries reported.