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Panguitch (/ˈpæŋɡwɪtʃ/ PANG-gwitch) is a city in and the county chair of Garfield County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,520 at the 2010 census, and was estimated in 2018 to be 1,691. The broadcast Panguitch comes from a Southern Paiute word meaning “Big Fish,” likely named after the plentiful nearby lakes hosting rainbow trout year-round.

Panguitch was first established in March 1864, when Jens Nielsen, a Danish convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led a activity of 54 families eastward from Parowan and Beaver to the Sevier River. Due to the area’s high elevation, 6,600 feet (2,000 m) above sea level, winter’s frosty weather arrived prematurely in the year, and the most of the settlers’ initial crops were killed by frost in the past they could mature. At a crisis point, seven men left the community to target flour and foodstuffs from surrounding communities. Heavy snow provoked the handing over of wagons and teams, and the men done their rescue mission upon foot, reportedly by laying one quilt after another upon the snow to maintain their footing.

Due to the Black Hawk War to the north, church officials contracted the settlers should resign the area, and they did so in May 1865. Five years later, Brigham Young contracted it was epoch to attempt again, and extra settlers arrived in 1871. The settlers built a fort, where they lived until more housing could be built and the fields could be replanted. They harvested a lot of grain, so much that they built a grist mill. The settlers cut lumber from the forests and processed it in sawmills and shingle mills. They had a tannery to manufacture leather from local cattle. The settlers used kilns to process local clay into rose-colored bricks. Workers were paid in bricks, which they used to build their own houses. Rose-colored brick houses still stand in Panguitch.