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Sevier County (/ s ɛ ˈ v ɪər / sə-VEER) is a county in Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 21,522. [ 1 ] Its county seat and largest city is Richfield .
Sevier County and Sanpete County make up the "Little Scandinavia" portion of Utah, where many of Utah's 20,000 Scandinavian immigrants during the 19th century settled. Pair-houses, a Scandinavian home form, are relatively more common here than elsewhere in Utah. There are 24 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county.
Sevier County lay on one of the variants on the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and California and was used by travelers between 1830 and 1850. In early January 1864, a party of ten men under the leadership of Albert Lewis came from Sanpete County, Utah, and arrived in what is now Richfield.
Sevier (/ s ɛ ˈ v ɪər / sə-VEER) is an unincorporated community in southwestern Sevier County, Utah, United States. It lies in the valley of the Sevier River along Sevier Highway, the former route of U.S. Route 89, southwest of the city of Richfield, the county seat of Sevier County. [2] Its elevation is 5,584 feet (1,702 m). [1]
Over 50 Latter-Day Saint churchgoers were reported to be sickened from carbon monoxide poisoning at the LDS Monroe East chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Sevier County, Utah, on December 31, 2023, New Year's Eve, as reported by the Sevier County Sheriff’s office. The sheriff reported they were transported to a local ...
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Elsinore was home to a Utah-Idaho Sugar Company factory for processing sugar beets into sugar from 1911 to 1929, but was closed due to a sugar beet blight. [ 6 ] On September 29 and October 1, 1921, Elsinore was hit by a series of magnitude six earthquakes. [ 8 ]
The site primary included a lime kiln, built in 1903, which was deemed significant as a structure. important in the development of communities in the Sevier Valley.Built by Jens L. Jenson, Richfield's "well-known" lime burner, the kiln cured lime which was used for mortar utilized in the construction of numerous rock and brick structures, as well as in the production of the whitewash used on ...