page_title: San Juan County, Utah
section_title: Natural resources
hierarchical_section_title: San Juan County, Utah / Geography / Natural resources
caption_attribution_description: Here's a moderately enhanced version of House on Fire Ruin. Well known Anasazi ruin in upper Mule Canyon near Comb Ridge in Utah. See http://www.redbubble.com/people/rickschafer/art/2617398-2-house-on-fire-ruin-utah
context_page_description: San Juan County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 14,746. Its county seat is Monticello, while its most populous city is Blanding. The county was named by the Utah State Legislature for the San Juan River, itself named by Spanish explorers.
  San Juan County borders Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico at the Four Corners.
context_section_description: The only operating uranium processing plant in the United States is located in the town of Blanding.
  San Juan County is home to numerous oil and gas fields that produce primarily from the Desert Creek and Ismay Formations.
caption: House on Fire ruin, one of many Ancestral Pueblo ruins in the county
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