Thistle, Utah
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The road must go on.....
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Thistle is a ghost town in Utah County, Utah, United States. It was located southeast of Spanish Fork, at [show location on an interactive map] 39°59′29″N, 111°29′54″W and had an elevation of 5,033 feet (1,534.06 meters) above sea level. The town was established in 1883 and later became a stop on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad; the town's fortunes tended to rise and fall with the successes and failures of the railroad. Most of the early citizens made their living from farming and ranching. In later years members of the Wasatch Academy climbed local mountains above the town to listen to the wind and watch the trains roaring up and down the canyon. Dam formed by a landslide that destroyed the town of Thistle, Utah Dam formed by a landslide that destroyed the town of Thistle, Utah On April 14, 1983, a massive landslide (known as a slump) moved part of the mountain and blocked two creeks, forming an earthen dam. The citizens were evacuated as nearly 65,000 acre-feet (80,000,000 m³) of water from the creeks backed up, flooding and destroying the town. Thistle was unable to recover from this natural disaster; to this day it remains a ghost town. Very little of the town is left; only the roofs of some buildings are still visible. The landslide closed the railroad for months. U.S. Highway 6 was closed for almost a year. Both road and railroad were rerouted by blasting through Billies Mountain to the north. Mitigation infrastructure was also put in place to redirect water flow past the landslide area, though a small pond remains. Two adjacent rest areas pay tribute to the town and the residents who lost everything. The Thistle landslide has so far been the only federal disaster area declared in Utah and is considered the costliest single landslide in U.S. history.[1] In addition to destroying the town, the landslide was devastating to the economy of southern and eastern Utah. With the major transportation arteries cut, it was infeasible to transport goods into or out of the area. Many coal miners, farmers, tourism, and transportation workers lost their jobs. Estimates placed the damage to Utah's economy at $200 million U.S..
Close-up Thistle Ruins - Thistle, Utah
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The town of Thistle Utah disappeared under water in 1983, when part of the mountain slid down the hill and blocked the river. The landslide made an earthen dam that completely covered the town. The residents of Thistle lost everything. A couple of years later, a break was made in the land slide to drain the lake. This is the remains of City Hall.
Thistle, Utah - Ghost Town
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Thistle, Utah was a small, very old town that was a major railroad hub back in the day. In 1983 a huge landslide took out the entire town, devastating & destroying everything. It's now a really creepy haunted Ghost Town with houses half-deep in mud & swamp.
Buried house 2
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buried house 1
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