There is an awesome article in the Winter 2015 edition of Utah Historical Quarterly (Volume 81, number 1) by Douglas H. Page Jr., Sarah E. Page, Thomas J. Straka, and Natham D. Thomas about Charcoal and its role in Utah mining history.
They list the remaining sites containing charcoal kilns and I’ve been loving visiting and documenting the kilns for years. This page of my website will be to list kiln sites and link to pages for those specific sites.
Charcoal Kiln Sites:
- Barrel Spring (Frisco District, Beaver County)
Blue Cut (Carbon County District, Carbon County)(no remains)- Broad Canyon (E. Tintic District, Utah County)
- Cactus Mine (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- Carbonate Gulch (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- Carbonate West (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- Copper Gulch (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- County Line (Frisco District, Beaver County)
Deer Creek (American Fork District, Utah County)(no remains)- The Dry Wash (Iron Springs District, Iron County)
- Enoch (Iron County)
- Forest City (American Fork District, Utah County)
- Frisco (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- Gold Hill (Gold Hill District, Tooele County)
- Homansville (E. Tintic District, Utah County)
- Iron City (Iron Springs District, Iron County)
- Kelsey Canyon (Stockton District, Tooele County) (no remains)
- Kiln Spring (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- Lake View (Stockton District, Tooele County)
- Lamerdorf Canyon (Frisco District, Beaver County)
- Leamington (Leamington District, Millard County)
- Leeds Creek (Silver Reef District, Washington County)
M & M (Spanish Fork District, Utah County)(no remains)Mill Fork (Spanish Fork District, Utah County)(no remains)Ophir (Ophir District, Tooele County)(no remains)Pine Canyon (Stockton District, Tooele County)(no remains)Rush Lake (Stockton District, Tooele County)(no remains)- Sawmill North (Frisco District, Beaver County)
Settlement Canyon (Stockton District, Tooele County)(no remains)- Soldier Canyon (Stockton District, Tooele County)
Spring Glen (Carbon County District, Carbon County)(no remains)Spring/Poor Hollow (Apex Mine District, Washington County)(no remains)- Three Kilns Spring (Frisco District, Beaver County)
Tooele City (Stockton District, Tooele County)(no remains)
Lime Kiln Sites:
- Cook Mining District (Provo & Springville Area)
- Midway (Wasatch County)
- Provo Foothills (Cook, Utah Co.) (see also: A Tragedy at the Site of the Provo Lime Kiln)
- Richfield (Sevier County)
- Springville Foothills (Cook Mining District, Utah County)
