Greenville is an unincorporated community in eastern Beaver County, Utah, United States.
Description The community lies along State Route 21 southwest of the city of Beaver (the county seat of Beaver County).Rand McNally, The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 102. Its elevation is . Although Greenville is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 84731.Zip Code Lookup
History The location of Greenville was originally a camp on the north side of a ford on the Beaver River, along the Mormon Road until 1855. That year, the road was rerouted up river to the crossing at what later became Beaver. Greenville was first settled in 1861.Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1941) p. 304 The community was named for the thick green grass which covered the original town site.
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