Dragon
Dragon is a ghost town in Uintah County, at the extreme eastern edge of Utah, United States. Founded in about 1888 as a Gilsonite mining camp, Dragon boomed in the first decade of the 20th century as the end-of-line town for the Uintah Railway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: ghost town in Uintah County, Utah, United States
- Also known as: “Dragon Ghost Town”, “Dragon, UT”, and “Dragon, Utah”
Dragon
- Categories: ghost town and locality
- Location: Uintah County, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.78449° or 39° 47′ 4″ northLongitude
-109.07609° or 109° 4′ 34″ westElevation
5,771 feet (1,759 metres)Open location code
85FGQWMF+QHOpenStreetMap ID
node 151517585OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Dragon” goes by many names.
- Navajo: “Tsézhiin Dilyį́įhii (kinsááʼ)”
- Navajo: “Tsézhiin Dilyį́įhii”
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