Utah · Ghost town
Ophir
A silver camp in a narrow canyon with a recorded population of twenty four, which makes it a ghost town that never quite finished the job.
Position Tooele County, Utah · 40.3722, -112.2472
Ophir had thousands of people in the 1870s and holds twenty four at the 2020 census, down from thirty eight ten years earlier. It is a census-designated place in Tooele County, technically part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which is one of the stranger facts on this site.
The town runs up a single canyon. Original buildings stand along it, some restored as a small town museum, some simply still lived in. That mixture is what makes Ophir unusual: it is neither preserved nor derelict, it is just very small.
Because people live here, the ordinary rules apply. Stay on the road and the public areas, and treat the standing buildings as somebody's property, because most of them are.
Facts checked against the Wikipedia article Ophir, Utah. The words above are ours.