Editing Bluff, Utah (section)

==History==
Under the direction of [[John Taylor (Mormon)|John Taylor]], [[Silas S. Smith]] and Danish settler [[Jens Nielson]] led about 230 Mormons on an expedition to start a farming community in southeastern Utah.  After forging about 200 miles (320 kilometers) of their own trail over difficult terrain, the settlers arrived on the site of Bluff in April 1880.<ref name="History of Bluff">{{Cite web|url=https://bluffutah.org/town-history/|title=Bluff Town History &#124; Bluff, Utah|date=November 10, 2019}}</ref> (The trail followed went over and down the "[[Hole in the Rock (rock formation)|Hole in the Rock]]", which now opens into one of the tributaries of Lake Powell.) The town was named for the bluffs near the town site.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sa9SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c38DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6741%2C5066695 | title=You name it - there's a town for it | work=The Deseret News | date=Jan 22, 1977 | access-date=18 October 2015 | author=Van Atta, Dale | pages=15}}</ref> The town's population had declined to seventy by 1930{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} but rebounded during a [[uranium]] [[prospecting]] boom in the 1950s.<ref name="History of Bluff"/> With the uranium decline in the 1970s, Bluff again declined and now remains a small town with about 200 residents.{{citation needed|date = October 2022}}