Dutch John is a town located in eastern Daggett County, Utah, United States, approximately 4 miles (6 km) northeast of the Flaming Gorge Dam on U.S. Route 191.
[4] The Dutch John townsite and its buildings continued to be owned by the Bureau of Reclamation until 1998 when the town was privatized.
The county later completed a master plan for the Dutch John townsite and has begun offering parcels of land for sale to developers.
In July 2002, the human-caused Mustang Ridge fire burned approximately 22,000 acres (89 km2) of pinyon/juniper forest near Dutch John.
During the peak years of construction activity at Flaming Gorge Dam, as many as 3,500 people lived in Dutch John.