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Lund, Utah

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Lund gained importance as a railroad junction in 1923, when the Union Pacific constructed a branch line from Lund to Cedar City. The branch was constructed in part to encourage travel to southern Utah's National Parks, and carried passenger trains during the summer months until 1960. At other times,
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Settlement activity in the Lund area began with the completion of the railway line through the Escalante Valley in the winter of 1898–99, but Lund's population remained extremely small until 1911, when the valley was opened to homestead settlement. The Lund townsite was platted in 1913,
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began in the 1920s, however, due to the failure of most of the homestead-era farms. Lund's most dramatic event was in February 1922, when a freak flood struck the desert valley and partially inundated the town.
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A post office operated at Lund from 1901 to 1967. Its closure reflected years of gradual population decline in the area, and only a handful of people live in the Lund vicinity today.
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beginning a decade of relative activity at the location. The town was named for Robert C. Lund, who was a Utah State legislator, local mine owner, and a director of the
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passengers bound for Cedar City would board a railway-operated connecting bus at Lund, which followed
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lund
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Unincorporated community in the state of Utah, United States
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Lund, UT
Unincorporated community
Abandoned building in Lund, October 2011
Lund is located in Utah
Lund is located in the United States
38°00′27″N 113°25′54″W / 38.00750°N 113.43167°W / 38.00750; -113.43167
Country
State
Utah
County
Iron
Named for
GNIS
unincorporated village
Escalante Valley
Iron County
Utah
Cedar City
Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
Union Pacific Railroad
population decline
State Route 19
Gilbert Stanley Underwood
Utah portal

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