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Columbia

Ghost town · Carbon County, Utah

Sunnyside quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500)
Sunnyside quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1915, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Columbia is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah. It is one of 20 former communities in Carbon County on the federal names register. No county in Utah has more among the 28 Utah counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Columbia as a historical populated place on the Sunnyside topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 39.5169° N, 110.3827° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleSunnyside
Elevation6,190 ft
Nearest living townEast Carbon, UT
Distance to it2.7 miles
GNIS feature ID1426815
Coordinates39.51691, -110.38265

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What's there now

Columbia is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is East Carbon, UT (population 1,476), about 2.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 6,190 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

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Questions

Where is Columbia?

Columbia is in Carbon County, Utah, at 39.5169, -110.3827.

How many ghost towns are in Carbon County?

Carbon County, Utah has 20 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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