Editing Helper, Utah (section)

{{short description|City in Utah, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Helper, Utah
| settlement_type    = [[City]]
| motto              = 
| image_skyline      = File:Helperseptember2023.jpg
| imagesize          = 280px
| image_caption      = North along Main Street, September 2023
| image_map          = Carbon County Utah incorporated and unincorporated areas Helper highlighted.svg
| map_caption        = Location within [[Carbon County, Utah|Carbon County]] and the [[Utah|State of Utah]]
| image_map1         = Map of USA UT.svg
| map_caption1       = Location of Utah in the United States
<!-- Location -->
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Utah]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[County (United States)|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Carbon County, Utah|Carbon]]
<!-- Government -->
| government_footnotes = 
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = 
| leader_name        = 
| established_title  = Settled
| established_date   = [[Wiktionary:circa|c.]] 1881
| founder            = [[Teancum Pratt]]
| named_for          = [[Helper engine]]s
| established_title1 = [[Incorporated town|Incorporated]]
| established_date1  = 1907
| established_title2 = Became a city
| established_date2  = October 9, 1915
<!-- Area -->
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2019">{{cite web|title=2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_49.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=August 7, 2020}}</ref>
| area_total_km2     = 4.68
| area_land_km2      = 4.68
| area_water_km2     = 0.00
| area_total_sq_mi   = 1.81
| area_land_sq_mi    = 1.81
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.00
<!-- Population -->
| population_as_of   = [[2010 United States Census|2010]]
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total   = 2201
| population_density_km2 = 449.87
| population_density_sq_mi = 1164.91
<!-- General information -->
| timezone           = [[Mountain Time Zone|Mountain (MST)]]
| utc_offset         = -7
| timezone_DST       = MDT
| utc_offset_DST     = -6
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/>
| elevation_ft       = 5909
| coordinates        = {{coord|39|41|15|N|110|51|54|W|region:US_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code        = 84526
| area_code          = [[Area code 435|435]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 49-34530<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref>
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 2410737<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2410737}}</ref>
| website            = {{URL|http://www.helpercity.net}}
| footnotes          = 
}}

'''Helper''' is a city in [[Carbon County, Utah|Carbon County]], [[Utah]], United States, approximately {{convert|110|mi}} southeast of [[Salt Lake City]] and {{convert|7|mi|0}} northwest of the city of [[Price, Utah|Price]]. The population was 2,201 at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]].

The city is located along the [[Price River]] and [[U.S. Route 6 in Utah|U.S. Route 6]]/[[U.S. Route 191 in Utah|U.S. Route 191]], a shortcut between [[Provo, Utah|Provo]] and [[Interstate 70 in Utah|Interstate 70]], on the way from Salt Lake City to [[Grand Junction, Colorado]]. It is the location of the [[Western Mining and Railroad Museum]], a tourist attraction that also contains household and commercial artifacts illustrating late 19th and early 20th-century living conditions.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}. Helper is at the western end of the 250 mile long Book Cliffs Escarpment, the longest continuous escarpment in the world. The eastern end of the Book Cliffs Escarpment is by Grand Junction, Colorado. [https://www.britannica.com/place/Book-Cliffs].