Cannonville Utah Map

About Cannonville, Utah

Cannonville is a locality in Garfield County, Utah, United States. It is a small community with a population of 186. The population density is 28.0 people per km². Cannonville is located at 37.5669°N, 112.0538°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Cannonville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 84718.

Cannonville occupies a quiet expanse of high desert where the Paria River traces a thin, life-giving line through the arid, sun-bleached earth. It lies 55.7 miles east of Cedar City, UT (from Cedar City, UT: bearing 98°T), and is situated 55.0 miles east-southeast of Enoch. The landscape surrounding Cannonville is defined by the stark, layered geology of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, a place where the horizons are vast and the light at dusk turns the sandstone cliffs into bruised shades of violet and burnt ochre. Two miles to the north, the waters of the Johnson Storage Reservoir mirror the cloudless sky, while the distant, jagged silhouette of The Backbone provides a steady, silent boundary to the west. The air here holds a thin, crystalline quality, carrying the scent of sagebrush and dry dust across the open plains that stretch toward the shadows of Bulldog Hollow.

Early settlers established Cannonville as a place of grit and deliberate labor, carving a homesteading existence from a terrain that demanded much and promised little beyond the resilience of its people. Today, the local economy remains tethered to the land, shifting from the traditional patterns of agriculture to a modest stewardship of the surrounding wilderness, as travelers pass through on their way to the rugged solitude of the Peekaboo Loop Trail. Life in Cannonville moves with the slow, predictable cadence of the seasons, where the primary rhythm is dictated by the irrigation of fields and the subtle, seasonal shifts in the desert heat. It is a place where the stillness is not an absence of sound, but a heavy, pervasive presence that anchors the residents to the quiet, unadorned reality of the high plateau.

About This Cannonville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cannonville, Utah. Coordinates: 37.566929, -112.0538. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Cannonville includes the ZIP code (84718), telephone area code (801), county seat of Garfield County (Panguitch), and school district assignment (Garfield School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.