Summit Utah Map

About Summit, Utah

Summit is a locality in Iron County, Utah, United States. It is a small community with a population of 170. The population density is 96.7 people per km². Summit is located at 37.8011°N, 112.9363°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. ZIP code: 84772.

Summit claims a place upon the high, arid plateau where the light of late afternoon turns the dry grasses into a shimmering expanse of pale gold. It lies 11.0 miles northeast of Cedar City, UT (from Cedar City, UT: bearing 39°T), and is situated 5.2 miles east-northeast of Enoch. Summit Creek carves a persistent, narrow path through the landscape, its presence marked by the deepening of the soil color and the sudden, rhythmic growth of willow and brush. To the east, the silhouette of Cedar Peak rises as a jagged anchor against the infinite blue, while the nearby terrain folds into the quiet, shadowed depths of Cheney Spring Canyon. The air here holds a thin, crystalline quality, sharp enough to catch in the lungs, carrying the scent of sagebrush and the faint, mineral dust of the basin.

History in Summit echoes the quiet labor of those who sought to cultivate the stubborn earth, leaving behind a legacy of irrigation ditches and fenced pastures that define the local economy of livestock and alfalfa. The expanse of the Parowan Front State Wildlife Area serves as a sanctuary for the mule deer and hawks that share this high-desert solitude, existing in a space where the pace of life follows the slow, seasonal turn of the sun. Farther out, the waters of Foster Reservoir remain a distant, reflective promise, though the people of Summit look more often to the immediate horizon where the land meets the sky. It is a place of deliberate movement, where the silence of the open plains is not an absence, but a presence that demands a steady, patient hand from those who call it home.

About This Summit Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Summit, Utah. Coordinates: 37.801087, -112.936335. 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 Summit includes the ZIP code (84772), telephone area code (801), county seat of Iron County (Parowan), and school district assignment (Iron 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.