Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
More historic than 80% of U.S. towns. What drives it
4 places in town are on the National Register. Below: maps from 1914 on and the census since 1890.
Spring Glen dates its founding to 1878 (Wikidata). The census first counted it in 1890.
More historic than 80% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Spring Glen is more historic than 80% of U.S. towns. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its age pulls it down.
Utah towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Utah town has 3.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Spring Glen’s 121 sits above most of its state (92% of Utah towns have fewer) while its 14 historic buildings outnumber those of 78% of U.S. towns.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Spring Glen’s history is told.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Spring Glen.
The first settlers in Spring Glen were a handful of bachelor farmers, starting with James Gay in 1878. Groups of friends and relatives joined the first few homesteaders, mostly independent minded people who were separate from the organized Mormon project to establish what became Emery County.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltClerico Commercial Building is built
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
BuiltMartin Millarich Hall is built
20222022-03-24 18 58 32 UTC minus 6 View north and down f…
2017West at SR-139 & SR-157 junction, May 17
2017USPS vehicle, Spring Glenn, Utah, May 17
2017South at SR-139 & SR-157 junction, May 17
2017SR-157 shield in Spring Glen, Utah, May 17
2017North at SR-139 & SR-157 junction, May 17
2017Fire hydrant in Spring Glen, Utah, May 17
2017East at SR-139 & SR-157 junction, May 17
2009Millarich
2009Clerico Building
2008Old school
2006Carboncounty utEvery edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Spring Glen. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Spring Glen.
Between 137 and 1,126 people in every census since 1890.
9 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Spring Glen’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Spring Glen itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Another post office, Ewell, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
In 1878, according to Wikidata. Spring Glen’s post office opened in 1910, and the census of 1890 counted 137 people here.
Spring Glen is more historic than 80% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
4 listings: 4 buildings, among them the Martin Millarich Hall (listed 1980, the first). 14 historic buildings in all.
29% of Spring Glen’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±17.7 points), against a typical 2.8% for an Utah town; the median home was built in 1957.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (4), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
