Dividend is an extinct town in southwest Utah County, Utah, United States. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.[1]

Northeast along Dividend Road, May 2016

A post office called Dividend was established in 1922, and remained in operation until 1951.[2] The community was so named in the expectation a nearby mine would pay dividends. By 1922, over one million dollars had been paid in dividends.[3]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dividend
  2. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  3. ^ Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 36.
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