Flowell | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Utah#USA |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Utah |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Millard |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | July 1915 |
Founder: | Brigham Tomkinson |
Named For: | Flowing artesian wells |
Timezone: | Mountain (MST) |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Elevation Ft: | 4708 |
Coordinates: | 38.9789°N -112.4283°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 84631 |
Area Code: | 435 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1454595 |
Flowell is an unincorporated community in Millard County, Utah, United States.
Flowell is a small farming village in the Pavant Valley, approximately west of Fillmore, the county seat. The town of Meadow is about to the south, across I-15. Utah State Route 100 connects Flowell with Fillmore to the east, and with U.S. Route 50 to the north. Just west of Flowell is the Ice Springs lava flow, part of the Black Rock Desert volcanic field, and a location that had an eruption less than 1,000 years ago.
In July 1915, Brigham Tomkinson drilled the first successful artesian well west of Fillmore, turning worthless desert into rich farmland and setting off a wave of well drilling in eastern Millard County. The center of this activity was first named Crystal, then Flowell after the freely-flowing wells. A school was built in 1919, and a post office in 1922. In the 1930s, Flowell built a community recreation hall with federal assistance from the Works Progress Administration.