Price, Utah Price, Utah Price, Utah Price, Utah Location in Carbon County and the state of Utah Location in Carbon County and the state of Utah Location of Utah in the United States Location of Utah in the United States Price is a town/city in Carbon County, Utah, United States.
The town/city is home to Utah State University Eastern, as well as the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum.
Price is positioned inside short distances of both Nine Mile Canyon and the Manti-La Sal National Forest.
Price is noted as a quarrying town, as well as for its history as a theological and ethnically distinct community, very atypical for Utah.
The populace was 8,715 at the 2010 census. Price is the governmental center of county of, and biggest city in, Carbon County. Price is positioned in west-central Carbon County at the northwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.1 square miles (13.1 km2), all land. The Price River, a tributary of the Green River, flows southeasterly through the city, and the San Rafael Swell is to the south.
Utah State Route 10 leads southwest from Price 21 miles (34 km) to Huntington.
Price is positioned in an dry climate and features cold winters and mostly moderate summers.
The low in January averages just 13 F or 10.6 C, and even in summer the dry climate keeps the evenings cool, with an average of just 58 F or 14.4 C.
Price lies in the precipitation shadow of central Utah's Wasatch Mountains so that rain averages only 9.24 inches or 234.7 millimetres annually.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Price has a cool semi-arid climate, abbreviated BSk on climate maps. In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 15.9% from 18 to 24, 22.5% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $31,687, and the median income for a family was $39,429.
As of 2015 the biggest self-reported lineage groups in Price, Utah are: The postal service in Price is one of 12 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Price is the locale of Utah State University Eastern, which has an enrollment of roughly 2,700.
Harold Arceneaux, experienced basketball player who attained national consideration during his collegiate longterm position at Weber State University; played two seasons at the College of Eastern Utah in Price Bracken Lee, mayor of Price from 1935 to 1947, governor of Utah from 1949 to 1957, mayor of Salt Lake City from 1960 to 1971 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Price, Utah.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Carbon County, Utah a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Price city, Utah".
Utah Climate Summaries - Price Warehouses Utah Climate Summaries - Price game farm Climate Summary for Price, Utah Wikimedia Commons has media related to Price, Utah.
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