Coal City, Utah 28 Saturday Mar 2020 Posted by Jacob Barlow in Uncategorized ≈ Leave a comment TagsCarbon County, Coal City, Dempseyville, Ghost Towns, Mining, utah The above photo is the store where Jack Dempsey trained to be a professional boxer, the ruins are still there. Also called Dempseyville or Oak Springs Bench, Coal City is a mining ghost town in Carbon County. It was inhabited from 1885 to 1940.