Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Huntington, UT

Huntington is a city in northwestern Emery County, and it is the largest town in Emery County.

The 2020 census counted 1,914 residents in 698 households in Huntington, down from 2,129 residents in 2010.

Huntington is named after Huntington Creek, and the creek was probably named for the Huntington brothers William, Oliver, and Dimick, who led exploring parties into the region during the 1850s.

The first settlers of European extraction in the Huntington area were four stockmen, Leander Lemmon, James McHadden, Bill Gentry, and Alfred Starr, who brought their herds to Huntington Creek in 1875.

In the fall of 1877, a small group from Fairview under the leadership of Elias Cox established a dugout colony on the banks of Huntington Creek and began digging irrigation canals, and the colony grew from 126 residents in 1880 to 738 in 1890.

In 1880 a mile-square townsite was surveyed on the Prickly Pear Flat, a bench south and west of the creek, and the first structure on the new townsite was a 40-by-60-foot log meetinghouse completed in time for an all-night New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1880.

Huntington's early economic base was agriculture and stockraising, and honey produced by local apiarist Christian Ottesen won first prize at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1903.

For most of its history Huntington has drawn its main income from coal mining, and the economic decline of the 1950s and 1960s was reversed in 1972 when construction began on Utah Power and Light Company's Huntington steam-electric generating plant at the mouth of the canyon.

A flour mill erected in Huntington in 1892 remained in operation into the 1980s, producing feeds for local farmers and flour and cereals marketed throughout Emery and Carbon counties.

On August 6, 2007, UtahAmerican Energy's Crandall Canyon Mine, 15 miles west-northwest of Huntington, collapsed, trapping six workers inside, and three rescue workers were later killed and six injured when a rescue tunnel collapsed.