Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Marion, UT

Marion is a census-designated place in Summit County, Utah, in the upper Kamas Valley, part of the Wasatch Back region.

The 2020 census counted 676 people in Marion, down slightly from 685 in 2010.

Marion is a small farming community about 40 miles east of Salt Lake City and 18 miles east of Park City, lying 2 miles north of the city of Kamas on Utah State Route 32.

The settlement was founded in the mid-1870s and was originally named Morrell after William Morrell, who built the first house, and many early settlers were Danish American immigrants, so the community was also often called Denmark.

The name Marion has been credited to two different sources: Francis Marion Lyman, who organized the first ward in the area in 1909, and Marion Myrick Sorensen, who settled there with her first husband in 1882.

The Marion precinct first appeared under that name in the 1900 census, when it counted 187 people.

Farming has traditionally been Marion's main economic activity, with a small co-op store and a snowmobile dealership among its few other businesses.

The Myrick House in Marion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Marion has no schools of its own, and children attend schools in Kamas in the South Summit School District, while mail for the community goes through ZIP code 84036, shared with Kamas.