Search for land and properties near Tucker, Utah using our custom MLS search. Our Tucker Real Estate Guide features current listings in ZIP code 84629 covering the Spanish Fork Canyon area — ideal for buyers seeking rural land, recreational property, or a piece of Utah railroad history.
Tucker is a ghost town located in Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah County, about 7 miles below Soldier Summit along U.S. Route 6. Originally known as Clear Creek, the settlement grew up around a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad station built to house the helper engines used to push freight trains over Soldier Summit, quickly reaching a population of 500 with a boarding house, company store, saloon, and rows of hastily built homes filling the small canyon valley. It also served as a railroad junction connecting to the Utah and Pleasant Valley Railway spur that ran to coal mines near today's Scofield Reservoir. The town operated a post office from 1881 to 1919, was renamed Tucker around 1900, and was eventually abandoned as the railroad era faded. In 2009 the original townsite was buried during a U.S. Route 6 realignment project — the state of Utah honored the community by building the Tie Fork Rest Area about 2 miles downstream in its memory. Today the surrounding canyon area offers dramatic scenery, open land, and a quiet remoteness that appeals to hunters, recreationists, and rural land buyers.
