A Huge Rift Emerges in a Ghost Town in a Deserted Area

Written by Fabio Lucas Carvalho

Published on 18/07/2025 at 18:34

Updated on 18/07/2025 at 18:37

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In The Interior Of The State Of Utah, An Old Mining Center Has Turned Into Ruins After Decades Of Intense Activity. The Ghost Town Of Dragon Holds A Story Marked By Fire, Human Losses And The Collapse Of The Local Economy.

In A Remote And Almost Uninhabited Area, A Huge Dark Crevice Begins To Open In The Ground, Cutting The Silence Of An Old Ghost Town Forgotten By Time.

Amid Crumbling Ruins And A Silent Desert, The Scene Draws Attention Not Only For The Desolate Landscape But Also For The Scars Left By Decades Of Intense Mining And Forgotten Tragedies.

On The Far East Of Uintah County, In The U.S. State Of Utah, Almost On The Border With Colorado, Lies What Is Left Of The Town Of Dragon.

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Explosions, Deaths And Decline

The Beginning Of The End Came Soon In 1908. An Explosion In A Vein Of Gilsonite Triggered An Underground Fire That, According To Records, Remained Active For Years.

In The Same Year, A Fatal Accident Claimed The Lives Of Two Workers.

By 1911, New Deposits Were Discovered Further North, Further Reducing The Relevance Of The Original Mine.

Railroad Construction Continued, And Dragon Lost Its Function As A Terminal Station.

Complete Evacuation In A Few Decades

In 1920, The Town Had 487 Residents. Less Than Twenty Years Later, In 1939, Only 72 Remained, Most Of Them Connected To The Railroad.

The Following Year, With The Closure Of The Uintah Railway And The Onset Of World War II, Only 10 People Still Lived In The town.

Shortly Afterward, Dragon Was Completely Abandoned And Became A Ghost Town, Like So Many Others That Met The Same Fate In Mining Regions Of The United States.

The Marks That Still Are In The Soil

Today, What Remains Of Dragon Are Ruins, A Huge Dark Crevice And Solitary Signs Of Those Who Lived There.

The Crack In The Ground Is The Visible Trace Of The Old Mining.

In 2000, The Uintah County Historical Society Placed A Sign At The Site Of The Ruins. In The Old Cemetery, Almost Everything Has Disappeared.

Three Graves Remain Identified. One Of Them Is Juan B. Trujillo, The Last Person Buried There. The Tombstone Has A Rosary, A Reminder That Someone Still Remembers The Past.

The Story Of Dragon Was Recently Remembered In A Video By The Outer Range Channel, Which Explored The Site And Showed The Marks Of Time And Mining That Still Cross The Soil Of Utah.

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A Huge Rift Emerges in a Ghost Town in a Deserted Area

In The Interior Of The State Of Utah, An Old Mining Center Has Turned Into Ruins After Decades Of Intense Activity. The Ghost Town Of Dragon Holds A Story Marked By Fire, Human Losses And The Collapse Of The Local Economy.

Explosions, Deaths And Decline

Complete Evacuation In A Few Decades

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A Huge Rift Emerges in a Ghost Town in a Deserted Area

In The Interior Of The State Of Utah, An Old Mining Center Has Turned Into Ruins After Decades Of Intense Activity. The Ghost Town Of Dragon Holds A Story Marked By Fire, Human Losses And The Collapse Of The Local Economy.

Explosions, Deaths And Decline

Complete Evacuation In A Few Decades

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Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

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In just one cast, fishermen are surprised to capture 14,096 mullets in Bombinhas and close a historic season with 58,000 fish; scene recorded in the Santa Catarina paradise marks the last day of the 2026 season.

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