Hanksville, Utah

Hanksville, Utah
Hanksville, Utah
Town
	Hollow Mountain Store
	Location in Wayne County and the state of Utah.
	Coordinates: 38°22′17″N 110°42′47″W / 38.37139°N 110.71306°W
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Wayne
Settled	1882
Incorporated	January 6, 1999
Named for	Ebenezer Hanks
Area
• Total	1.72 sq mi (4.45 km2)
• Land	1.69 sq mi (4.36 km2)
• Water	0.03 sq mi (0.09 km2)
Elevation	4,295 ft (1,309 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	219
• Estimate (2019)	220
• Density	130.56/sq mi (50.42/km2)
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP codes	84734
Area code	435
FIPS code	49-33100
GNIS feature ID	2412723
Website	www.hanksvilleutah.gov

Hanksville is a small town in Wayne County, Utah, United States, at the junction of State Routes 24 and 95. The population was 219 at the 2010 census.^[4]

Situated in the Colorado Plateau's cold desert ecological region, the town is just south of the confluence of the Fremont River and Muddy Creek, which together form the Dirty Devil River, which then flows southeast to the Colorado River. The Hanksville-Burpee Quarry is located nearby, and the Mars Desert Research Station is 7 miles (11 km) northwest of town. The Bureau of Land Management's Henry Mountains field station is located in Hanksville.^[5]

^ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
^ ^a ^b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hanksville
^ Cite error: The named reference USCensusEst2019CenPopScriptOnlyDirtyFixDoNotUse was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Hanksville town, Utah". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
^ "Henry Mountains Field Station". Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved October 12, 2015.