Huntington is a city in northwestern Emery County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,129 at the 2010 census. It is the largest town in Emery County.

Huntington is named after Huntington Creek, and the creek was probably named for Huntington brothers (William, Oliver, and Dimick, sons of William Huntington) who led exploring parties into the region during the 1850s. The first settlers of European lineage in the Place were four stockmen, Leander Lemmon, James McHadden, Bill Gentry, and Alfred Starr, who brought their herds to Huntington Creek in 1875.

In the slip of 1877, in reply to the similar call from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that brought settlers to the additional creeks in Castle Valley, a little group from Fairview, Utah, under the leadership of Elias Cox, established a dugout colony on the banks of Huntington Creek and began digging irrigation canals. The colony grew from 126 in 1880 to 738 in 1890 and 1,293 in 1910. A majority of the to the fore settlers came from the Sanpete Valley, which by the late 1870s had outgrown its irrigable land, and many belonged to three or four interrelated kinship groups, making for an abundance of cousins in the community.

In 1880 a mile-square townsite was surveyed upon the Prickly Pear Flat, a bench south and west of the creek. The first structure erected on the supplementary townsite was a 40-by-60-foot (12 by 18 m) log meetinghouse, which was completed in become old for an all-night New Year’s Eve party on 31 December 1880. Most of the townsite was without water until the talent of the Huntington Canal in 1882. Settlers drew town lots and built homes in town as they proved up upon their homesteads. The first homes, some of which were nevertheless occupied until recent years, were typically of sawed log or plank construction or of adobe sheathed taking into consideration lumber. The erection of a new LDS meetinghouse in 1896 inaugurated a twenty-year building boom that maxim the exploit of many brick homes, schools, and announcement buildings.