Clawson Utah Map

About Clawson, Utah

Clawson is a locality in Emery County, Utah, United States. It is a small community with a population of 162. The population density is 61.7 people per km². Clawson is located at 39.1330°N, 111.0971°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Clawson is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 84516.

Clawson emerges from the high, arid expanse of the Colorado Plateau as a quiet assembly of homesteads and weathered fences caught in the amber light of the high desert. It lies 68.8 miles south-southeast of Santaquin, UT (from Santaquin, UT: bearing 148°T), and is situated 30.5 miles east-southeast of Ephraim. The landscape surrounding Clawson is defined by the stark, vertical signatures of Rock Canyon, where Rock Canyon Creek carves a thin, life-giving ribbon through the parched earth. To the far horizon, the jagged silhouette of the Wasatch Range looms as a blue-tinted memory of moisture and stone, while the immediate terrain remains dominated by sagebrush and the shifting, copper-colored soils that define this altitude. The air here carries a crystalline, sharp clarity that makes the distant ridges appear close enough to touch, especially as the sun dips low and casts long, violet shadows across the flat valley floor.

Settlement in Clawson reflects the deliberate, grid-based patience of those who sought to coax sustenance from a difficult, dry climate. The local economy persists in a quiet dialogue with the land, anchored by agricultural rhythms that have changed little in their fundamental necessity over the decades. Beyond the immediate fields, the proximity to the Manti-La Sal National Forest provides a rugged buffer of pinyon and juniper, offering a wilder counterpoint to the orderly rows of the irrigated pastures. Residents often look toward the Blue Dugway when seeking the deeper solitude of the backcountry, a trail that leads into the wilder reaches of the terrain. The pulse of Clawson is measured not by the frenetic pace of urban centers, but by the steady, seasonal work of maintaining a life in the open, expansive reaches of the American West.

About This Clawson Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clawson, Utah. Coordinates: 39.133027, -111.097114. 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 Clawson includes the ZIP code (84516), telephone area code (801, 385), county seat of Emery County (Castle Dale), and school district assignment (Emery 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.