Town file
Fillmore, Utah
Fillmore, Utah (Millard County, Utah) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 441, "Bashed, Slashed & Scattered" (16 November 2023). Sharon Lucille Sant was nineteen in the summer of 1985.
- Town
- Fillmore
- County
- Millard County
- State
- Utah
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 441
- Approximate location
- 38.964, -112.339
Episode 441 / 16 November 2023 / 162 min / full
Bashed, Slashed & Scattered
"We are heading out to Utah here. Going to Fillmore, Utah... This is in Millard County." about 0:04:22
The case: Murder of Sharon Sant (August 1985). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2023
- Population
- 2,550
- Median age
- 36.1
- Median household income
- $70,669
- Median home value
- $282,300
- Two-bedroom rent
- $810 a month
- Religious
- 85.2%
- Property crime
- ▼ about 20% under the national average
- Violent crime
- ▼ a little under half the national average
History, in brief
- Fillmore is near what is described as the geographic centre of the territory and was originally built as the capital of Utah. about 0:06:30
- In 1851 Governor Brigham Young chose the site and had a surveyor lay out the town that day. about 0:06:52
- Early residents built houses, a gristmill and a sawmill, and a capitol building went up in 1852. about 0:07:08
- In October 1853 Captain John W. Gunnison led a military party to survey the region and was attacked by a band of Ute Indians west of where Fillmore now stands; he and seven of his men were killed. about 0:07:38
- During the 1860s the settlers built two big forts, Fort Deseret and Cove Fort, with thick walls meant to stop arrows. about 0:07:55
- The territorial legislature met in Fillmore in 1855, but in 1856 it moved the capital to the much larger Salt Lake City and Fillmore became a very small town. about 0:09:01
The reviews read out
5 stars
"Likes how small and tight the community is and calls it an overall awesome place to live; the only problem is there is nothing to do when it is cold, it does not have many stores, and it only recently got one sit-down restaurant."about 0:09:19
2 stars
"No stores; you have to travel to Utah County to get anything you need and are basically out of luck, which is extremely frustrating, and what is stranger is that they like it this way and would rather give their money to Amazon."about 0:10:24
3 stars
"It is mostly fast food, but the fresh produce is yummy."about 0:11:00
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Eureka, Utah70 miles
- Paragonah, Utah78 miles
- Payson, Utah81 miles
- Price, Utah93 miles
- Cedar City, Utah98 miles
- American Fork, Utah102 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.