Burbank, Utah

Burbank is a small farming community in the western part of Millard County, Utah, United States, just east of the Nevada border. It is an unincorporated community, set in the southern part of Snake Valley near the northern opening of Hamlin Valley. It was founded in the 1870s as a Mormon farming community, and an early post office stood at the Dearden Ranch. The name comes from Margie Burbank Clay, the wife of local judge E. W. Clay. Outlaws, cattle rustlers and uncertainty over the local water sources led settlers to abandon the community, except for the Dearden Ranch, which was started in 1886 and has been home to the Dearden family ever since. Clay was the name of the major spring the first settlers used, and that spring is the main source of water for Pruess Lake to the north. The springs that flow into Lake Creek are informally called Dearden Springs in water rights documents.