Hanksville, UT

Hanksville is a small town in Wayne County, Utah, United States, at the junction of State Routes 24 and 95. The 2020 census counted 158 residents. Situated in the Colorado Plateau's cold desert ecological region, the town is just south of the confluence of the Fremont River and Muddy Creek, which together form the Dirty Devil River, which then flows southeast to the Colorado River. The Bureau of Land Management's Henry Mountains field station is located in Hanksville. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Hanksville, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet.

For Hanksville, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. The town was settled in 1882 and known for a time for the name given to the surrounding area, Graves Valley. Hanksville took the name of Hanksville in 1885, after Ebenezer Hanks, an early settler. Hanksville includes the Bureau of Land Management's Henry Mountains.