Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Oak City, UT

Oak City is a town in Millard County, Utah, and the 2020 census counted 595 residents.

Oak City was founded in 1868 by pioneers who had formerly lived at Deseret, who chose the site as a refuge from Sevier River floods because of its reliable creek and good farmland.

Oak City was first known as Oak Creek, for the creek beside the settlement, and it was named for the oak trees along that creek.

The town site was surveyed into 24 blocks and patterned after the original survey of Salt Lake City.

Oak City's post office opened in 1874.

Oak City was incorporated on February 13, 1917.

Oak City is 15 miles east of Delta.

Oak City was the search director's first choice for the atomic weapons laboratory in October 1942, when Major John Dudley of the Manhattan District surveyed the West, but Dudley rejected it because taking the area would evict several dozen families and remove a large amount of farmland from production, and J. Robert Oppenheimer later favored Los Alamos.

Oak City Days is held the third week of August every year to celebrate the founding of the town, and the Saturday town lunch feeds more than 1,000 people.

A 300-pound bell was ordered in 1893 for Oak City's combination church, school, and social hall.