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Helper
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city in Carbon County, Utah, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Utah
- County
- Carbon
- Settled
- c. 1881
- Became a city
- October 9, 1915
- Founded by
- Teancum Pratt
- Named after
- Helper engines
- Total
- 1.81 sq mi (4.68 km )
- Land
- 1.81 sq mi (4.68 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 5,909 ft (1,801 m)
- Density
- 1,165.2/sq mi (449.87/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-7 ( Mountain (MST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-6 (MDT)
- Fips code
- 49-34530
- Website
- www .helpercity .net
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately 110 miles (180 km) southeast of Salt Lake City and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the city of Price. The population was 2,112 at the 2020 census.
The city is located along the Price River and U.S. Route 6/U.S. Route 191, a shortcut between Provo and Interstate 70, on the way from Salt Lake City to Grand Junction, Colorado. It is the location of the Western Mining and Railroad Museum, a tourist attraction that also contains household and commercial artifacts illustrating late 19th and early 20th-century living conditions.. Helper is at the western end of the Book Cliffs, the longest continuous escarpment in the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.