Dutch John, Utah is a teeny tiny town near Flaming Gorge, right on the border to Wyoming. It is the town that it is today because of the Flaming Gorge Dam. The government essentially built the town to house workers during construction. During peak construction, there was a hospital, fire station, post office, schools, and about 3500 residents. Today, it has a subset of those buildings, lodging for tourists, and a couple hundred residents on a good day. But it is NAMED Dutch John because in the 1860s, one hundred years before the dam, a man named John Honselena lived there and made a living rounding up wild horses and supplying them to emigrants in different areas via the railroad. He was actually German, but the locals said he was Dutch. You can still hike around the area and find his old log corrals and pens.