Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Richmond, UT

Richmond is a city in Cache County, Utah, in the Logan metropolitan area, and its population was 2,914 in the 2020 census.

Richmond was settled in 1859 and incorporated on February 6, 1868, and it was likely named in honor of Latter-day Saint apostle Charles C. Rich, though the rich local soil and the fact that Richmond, London, was the hometown of some of its English settlers may also have influenced the name.

In 1860, Latter-day Saint Church President Brigham Young visited Richmond and counseled the settlers to move their families and wagons close together so they would be ready if disturbed, which led them to build a fort named Fort Richmond.

The 1962 Cache Valley earthquake, which occurred east of Richmond in the Bear River Range, destroyed many pioneer buildings in Richmond, including the original home of Marriner W. Merrill and the two-story Latter-day Saint brick Stake Tabernacle.

In the 2020 census, Richmond had 891 households and a median age of 30.7 years, and all of its residents lived in rural areas.

Richmond covers 3.50 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 4,652 feet.

Cache Valley's first two creameries, Cache Valley Dairy and Union Creamery, were located in Richmond, and each produced up to 40,000 pounds of milk per day in 1902; the plant later became Sego Milk Products and was for many years the largest operation west of the Mississippi, operating until 1984.

Holstein Friesian cattle were brought to Richmond in 1904 and thrived so well that the town was recognized as Utah's Holstein center, and its Black and White Days cattle show, held annually since 1915, is the United States' longest running cattle show.

Pepperidge Farm opened a plant in Richmond in 1974 that produced over one million cases of Goldfish crackers in 2011, and in 2023 the company announced a 160 million dollar upgrade to the plant.

Richmond has 17 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the second most in Cache Valley behind Logan, including the Richmond Carnegie Library, built on Main Street in 1914, and the Richmond Relief Society Hall, one of the oldest known original Relief Society Halls existing in Utah.