WEST UNION

John D.  Wright, county surveyor, certified that he surveyed this town site for James M. Campbell and Andrew S.  Stithherm in July of 1854. The town plat consisted of 136 lots each 60 x 112 feet, the streets were 60 feet wide and  the alleys 16 feet wide.  The town was located in section 22,  Jones Township and was on the stage route from east to west across the county and was for a number of years and important stopping point.   At its peak West Union was comprised of about 12 families, a school house, general store and post office, steam powered sawmill, a hotel and a blacksmith shop. The first cemetery in the county other than that used by the Mormons was established here.  The last official record of the town was when the county supervisors vacated all of the streets, alleys, and public grounds of the town in June 1883.  A church (which was later moved to Thayer) appears at the townsite on maps late as 1894 and the cemetery still exist today.   Oddly the town name never appeared on any maps of the time and although there is a record of the town site being surveyed, I could not find any record that the plan was ever recorded.