Tooele County, Utah
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- Black Rock Site — Historic · Tooele County, UT
Black Rock Site is a historic site in Tooele County, UT, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for significance in entertain…
- Bonneville Salt Flats — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Iconic remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville — ~30,000 acres of hard white salt crust managed by BLM as an ACEC and Special Recreation Management Area. Land…
- Clifton — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Abandoned Clifton Mining District camp at the north end of the Deep Creek Mountains, predecessor to nearby Gold Hill. Gold discovery in the late 1850s–1860s …
- Deseret Peak — Geology · Tooele County, UT
High point of the Stansbury Mountains west of Tooele Valley—a rugged limestone/quartzite summit with classic Basin-and-Range relief above the Great Salt Lake…
- Eardley Spit — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Named Lake Bonneville shoreline spit/bar on the Great Salt Lake’s south shore near Mills Junction — part of the classic Stansbury shoreline suite of gravel a…
- Gold Hill — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Remote west-desert mining town near the Deep Creek Mountains, established after 1870s discoveries and revived for copper, gold, arsenic, silver, lead, and tu…
- Iosepa — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Iosepa was a Hawaiian Latter-day Saint colony in Skull Valley, Tooele County (1889–1917). Families farmed the desert under harsh conditions before many retur…
- Knolls Dunes — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Gypsum sand dunes and mud-flat terrain on the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert at Knolls — the BLM Knolls OHV Special Recreation Management Area (~…
- Mercur — Ghost Town · Tooele County, UT
Hard-rock mining ghost town in the Oquirrh Mountains of Tooele County, noted as the site of the first successful commercial cyanide gold process in the Unite…
- Ophir — Historic · Tooele County, UT
Silver–lead–zinc mining canyon town in the Oquirrh Mountains of Tooele County, founded about 1870 and named for the biblical source of Solomon’s gold. Peak c…
- Simpson Springs — Historic · Tooele County, UT
Key West Desert watering hole and Pony Express / Overland Stage station site on the Pony Express National Historic Trail. Named for Capt. James H. Simpson’s …
- Stansbury Island Bar — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Named Lake Bonneville shoreline bar on Stansbury Island in the Great Salt Lake — part of the classic Stansbury shoreline suite of tufa-cemented gravel and ba…
- Stockton Bar — Geology · Tooele County, UT
One of the largest and best-preserved Lake Bonneville shoreline bars, spanning the strait between South Mountain and the Oquirrh Mountains south of Tooele. G…