The Town of Junction is located in the center of Piute county, atthe junction of the South and East Forks of the Sevier River. It isfifteen miles south of Marysvale, the Denver and Rio Grand Railroadterminus

At a mass meeting of the citizens of Junction held in the courthouse in Junction, Utah, on the 29th day of March, 1913, it wasdetermined to petition the County Commissioners to grant them a TownIncorporation. The following persons were selected as a committee todraft and present said petition: E.E. Sprague, John Morrill, GilbertR. Beebe, Wm. F. Carson, D.H. Robinson, Wm. H. Luke and Lura J.Stark. The petition was prepared and presented to the Commissionerson the 7th day of April, 1913, and approved by them on the same dateat which time the said commissioners appointed the following namedpersons as and for the first officers of the Town of Junction: C.P.Barnson, President; Wm. H. Luke, Lyman L. Johnson, Charles Morrilland Wm. Sudweeks, as Trustees; and said incorporation was designatedas the "Town of Junction".

Upon the organization D.H. Robinson was appointed Town Clerk, JohnMorrill, Town Treasurer, Gilbert R. Beebe, Town Attorney, and W.H.Hale Town Marshal.

The first settlers of the Town of Junction were Thomas N. Wilson,Wm. Shoemaker, Reese Richards and Charley Pinney who located at CityCreek, one mile north of the present site o the Town of Junction in1871. Al Price was the first person to build a house on the presentsite of the Town in the same year. The settlement was for a number ofyears known as "City Creek" after the creek under which it waswatered. In 1882 it was made the county seat of Piute County and tookthe name of Junction and has been known by that name since.

Bishop John Morrill established the first store, was the firstpostmaster and built the first substantial adobe building in the townand was at all times one of the leading spirits in communityupbuilding, a hard worker and a successful farmer and is still, atseventy-nine years of age, doing the greater part of his farm work.... We have two stores, confectionary and ice cream stand, twogarages, a hotel, and a real live weekly newspaper... We have apopulation of about 450 of the best people in the state...

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