Ophir Utah Map

About Ophir, Utah

Ophir is a locality in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is a small community with a population of 24. The population density is 72.4 people per km². Ophir is located at 40.3694°N, 112.2586°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 84071.

Ophir claims a narrow, rugged crease in the earth where the landscape rises sharply into high, sun-bleached ridges. It lies 11.3 miles south of Tooele, UT (from Tooele, UT: bearing 169°T), and is situated 15.5 miles southwest of Herriman. Ophir Creek cuts a clear, persistent vein through the terrain, its cold waters carving a path directly through the depths of Hartmann Gulch. The air here holds a distinct, thin clarity, smelling faintly of dry sage and oxidized stone, while the light at dusk flattens the topography, turning the gray slopes into silhouettes against the vast, pale sky. Far to the east, the jagged spine of the Wasatch Range looms as a distant, serrated boundary, marking the limit of the horizon while the local elevation keeps the immediate surroundings quiet and enclosed.

Mining once defined the pulse of Ophir, leaving behind a scatter of weathered timber and rusted iron that speaks to a time of frantic extraction and sudden, localized prosperity. While the economic fervor of those early years has long since quieted, the remnants of that era persist as a skeletal architecture integrated into the steep, rocky inclines. Life moves at a measured, solitary pace, far removed from the busier corridors near Utah Lake or the managed wildness of Yellow Fork Canyon. The stillness that settles over the gulch is absolute, broken only by the rhythmic movement of the creek and the occasional wind that shifts the dust across the abandoned remains of a harder, more industrious age.

About This Ophir Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ophir, Utah. Coordinates: 40.36939, -112.258557. 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 Ophir includes the ZIP code (84071), telephone area code (801, 385), county seat of Tooele County (Tooele), and school district assignment (Tooele 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.