Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near East Hatch Hatch, UT

Hatch is a town in Garfield County, Utah, in the valley of the Sevier River near its headwaters, about 260 miles south of Salt Lake City.

The town was originally called Mammoth and was settled in 1872 by Meltiar Hatch, for whom the present town is named.

A post office called Hatch has been in operation since 1904, and the town was incorporated on January 3, 1934.

Hatch had a population of 132 at the 2020 census, nearly unchanged from 133 in 2010, after peaking at 294 in 1940.

The 2000 census counted 41 households in the town, with an average household size of 3.10.

U.S. Route 89 passes through Hatch, leading north 15 miles to Panguitch, the Garfield County seat, and south 26 miles to Glendale.

Hatch sits at an elevation of 6,919 feet in southwestern Garfield County.

The early Hatch home, where Meltiar Hatch settled at the junction of Mammoth and Asay Creeks, held school sessions and church services for the new community, and the town was moved to its present site between 1901 and 1904.

On May 25, 1914, the Upper Sevier dam broke, an event described at the time as the biggest dam break in Utah history, displacing residents of the Upper Sevier Valley including some in Hatch.

In the summer of 2010 the town began building a new town office and community center next to the town park.