Originally called Gibson, Consumers is a mining ghost town very close to the mining ghost towns of National, Sweet and Coal City. It was founded in 1921 and faded away in the 1940s.

Coal was discovered in the area in 1908 and in 1921 the National Coal Company built a railroad line from Helper to this site. National shared a post office with Sweet and Consumers, nearby ghost towns.

A ghost town very near the ghost towns of National and Consumers in Carbon County, the three shared a post office and school.