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Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, approximately 110 miles (180 km) southeast of Salt Lake City and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the city of Price. It is known as the “Hub of Carbon County”. The population was 2,201 at the 2010 census.

The city is located along U.S. Route 6/U.S. Route 191, a shortcut amid Provo and Interstate 70, on the pretentiousness from Salt Lake City to Grand Junction, Colorado. It is the location of the Western Mining and Railroad Museum, a tourist sympathy that next contains household and want ad artifacts illustrating late 19th and in advance 20th-century perky conditions.

With the start of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) in 1881–82, Helper began to build as a population center. By 1887 the D&RGW had erected some twenty-seven frame residences, with more built innovative in the year. The railroad planned to make Helper a freight terminal after the rail lines were untouched from narrow to up to standard gauge. The changeover process began in 1889 and was completed in 1891. In 1892, Helper was designated the division tapering off between the eastern and western D&RGW terminals in Grand Junction, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah, respectively, and a other depot, hotel, and other buildings were constructed.