A s Circleville, Kingston, Antimony, Otter Creek, Greenwich, Box Creek, and Koosharem were being settled, others began homesteading along the Sevier River, and the town of Junction came into being. With the exception of some of the mining camps and towns, all the communities in Piute County initially experienced steady growth. Log cabins and adobe houses were replaced by larger lumber and brick homes, schools improved, farms became better established and more productive with the arrival of technology, and new businesses opened. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century Piute County towns came of age.
Junction The town of Junction is situated about 1.5 miles west of the confluence of the east and west forks of the Sevier River, and takes its name from that junction. The town sits in a small valley about eight miles long and about two miles wide. Its water supply comes from City Creek, which flows eastward from the Mount Baldy Range into the Sevier River about two miles below the confluence of the two
