Hiawatha, about 13 miles northwest of this location, was named from Longfellow's poem "Hiawatha" and was incorporated in September 1911. In June 1912, along with Blackhawk and Mohrland, it was purchased by the U.S. Fuel Company. Coal produced by Hiawatha came from Emery County, but the town and the mine portal were in Carbon County. In 1912, 2000 tons of coal were produced in a twelve hour period, 20 single and double housing were built, the first motion picture was shown, and the workforce steadily increased. In 1938, U.S. Fuel built a new coal preparation plant at Hiawatha and began extracting Mohrland's coal through the Hiawatha portal, spelling the end of Mohrland. In 1991, U.S. Fuel's continuous miner sections could not compete with modern longwall technology and it was forced to lay off its miners. After 84 years, Hiawatha concluded its mining operations and the town dis-incorporated. The era of Hiawatha ended and one of the last company owned mining towns in America ceased to exist.