WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Pinto, Utah

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Pinto on the Old Spanish Trail was settled in 1856 by people from Fort Harmony.

LOCATION

TBD

HISTORY

In the summer of 1864, John Pato, Thales Haskel, and Benjamin Knell settled on a creek which they called Pato Creek. The name soon changed to Pinto Creek which is now the town of Pinto.

PHOTOS

WCHS photos:
WCHS-00093     Photo of the entry arch to the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00094     Photo of the entrance to the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00095     Photo of the front of a marker at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00096     Photo of the back of a marker at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00097     Photo of an area of graves at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00098     Photo of an area of graves at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00099     Photo of a group of graves at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00100     Photo of a marker at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00101     Photo of an old headstone at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00102     Photo of an old headstone at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00103     Photo of a grave and headstone at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00104     Photo of a headstone at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00105     Photo of a grave with headstone and footstone at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00106     Photo of an internally fenced burial plot at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00107     Photo of an internally fenced burial plot at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00108     Photo of a tall marble marker at the Pinto Cemetery
WCHS-00109     Photo of a tall marble grave marker at the Pinto Cemetery

Other photos on the web:
8/1970 photo of a bench on the porch at the old hotel at Pinto
8/1970 photo of the old hotel at Pinto
7/1960 photo of the meadows along the stream bottom in Pinto Canyon, just south of the town of Pinto
5/1937 photo of three men with horses inspecting deer grazing damage on the range near Pinto
Photo of acting ranger, Wayne Cloward (D-1) checking artificial revegitation near Pinto
Photo of acting ranger, Wayne Cloward (D-1) checking artificial revegitation near Pinto
Photo of plows at a Pinto area reseeding project
1967 photo of a man with a white flag guiding an airplane coming on a reseeding project near Pinto
Photo of PJ type artificial revegitation resulting from a reseeding project near Pinto
Photo of PJ type artificial revegitation resulting from a reseeding project near Pinto
Photo of along road from Pinto to Iron Mountain - artificial revegetation, Pinto reseeding project, denuded PJ type
10/11/1967 photo of "chaining" to remove pinyon juniper trees near Pinto
8/19/1911 photo of Pinto Creek showing wash which was once a road and a meadow
1913 photo of an unidentified man standing in Pinto Creek wash
10/1/2006 photo of Pinto Road on the Northern end of the Pine Valley Mountains
10/1/2006 photo of some rocks near Kane Point on Pinto Road in the Pine Valley Mountains
10/1/2006 photo of a rock (Kane Point?) seen from Pinto Road
10/1/2006 photo of the Pine Valley Mountains viewed from Pinto Road
10/1/2006 photo of a view from the Pinto Road (probably of the town of Pinto)
10/1/2006 photo an old barn seen from Pinto Road
10/1/2006 photo of some abandoned buildings along the Pinto Road on the Northern end of the Pine Valley Mountains
10/1/2006 photo of an abandoned home in Pinto
10/1/2006 photo of the Pine Valley Mountains viewed from the Pinto Road near Pinto

REFERENCES

A history of Pinto
A history of Pinto
Pinto or Pato - Historians Split Over Town's Name
Short clipping about Hebron and Pinto people
Sons of Utah Pioneers Hear of Ghost Towns

Washington County Chapter, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, " Under Dixie Sun".
1950 with 1978 Supplement.
Pages 125, 213-218, Supplement Pages 22-23.