Emery, UT

Emery is a town in Emery County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census counted 307 residents. Named after North Horn Mountain, near Castle Dale, this formation in Emery County contain numerous Cretaceous - and Tertiary -era fossil invertebrates, microfossils and palynomorphs. The culture received its name from the Fremont River, where the first Fremont sites were discovered. The Fremont River in Utah flows from the Johnson Valley Reservoir near Fish Lake east through Capitol Reef National Park to Muddy Creek, whose headwaters begin just north of Emery. The through line in Emery is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Emery makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Emery includes the culture received its name from the Fremont River.