According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), all land.

In 1880, a log meetinghouse was built and by this time the town had an LDS Ward with Mary Goble Pay as president of the Primary Organization.

Bengt Textorius was hired to bring a spur of the railroad down from SLC through Leamington past Lynndyl Junction.

His wife, Josephine, talked her sister Anna and her son, Abe, to move from Sweden.

He took trips to the mining town Eureka up north to sell, butter, eggs, meat, and flour goods, plus fruit and vegetables in season.

They would go up into the canyons to gather firewood for home and for the cone kilns to make charcoal for the trains.

In winter, they would cut blocks of ice from the Sevier River and place them in small caves covered with straw to serve as refrigerators.

[4] On Highway 132 near the middle of Leamington sits a 1950s-style Phillips 66 gas station with period cars in front of and around the garage.

In addition, there is a classic 1950s-era American Linen Supply Company delivery van parked inside the fence, directly east of the gas station.