Bicknell is a town along State Route 24 in Wayne County, Utah, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 327. Bicknell was originally called Thurber, or Thurber Town, for A.K. Thurber, who in 1879 built the first house in the area. In 1897 the town moved to a new location due to sandy soil and poor water conditions.