Dutch John, Utah

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.

Map of Utah highlighting Daggett County