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Tooele County, Utah

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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31historic places

—earliest paper

1850formed

72,698pop. 2020

19cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 31 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Grantsville, Tooele, Wendover.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

22 of 31 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

31 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Anderson-Clark Farmstead	Grantsville	Building	2006
Benson Mill	Mills Junction	Building	1972
Black Rock Site	Lake Point	Site	2021
Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track	Wendover	Site	1975
Clegg, Peter, House	Tooele	Building	2019
Clover Ward LDS Meetinghouse	Rush Valley	Building	2025
Danger Cave NHL	Wendover	Site	1966
Davis, David E. House	Rush Valley	Building	2007
Erickson, Hilda, House	Grantsville	Building	2006
GAPA Launch Site and Blockhouse	Knolls	Site	1980
Grantsville First Ward Meetinghouse	Grantsville	Building	1982
Grantsville School and Meetinghouse	Grantsville	Building	1995
Iosepa Settlement Cemetery	Iosepa	Site	1971
Johnson Hall-Deseret Mercantile Building	Grantsville	Building	2006
Johnson, Alex and Mary Alice, House	Grantsville	Building	1995
Kirk Hotel, The	Tooele	Building	2020
Lawrence Brothers and Company Store	Ophir	Building	2013
Lincoln Highway Bridge	Dugway Proving Ground	Site	1975
Ophir Town Hall	Ophir	Building	1983
Reddick Hotel-Ophir LDS Meetinghouse	Ophir	Building	2016
Rich, John T., House	Grantsville	Building	1984
Sharp, John C., House	Vernon	Building	1984
Soldier Creek Kilns	Stockton	Site	1980
Stockton Jail	Stockton	Building	1985
Stockton School	Stockton	Building	2018
Tooele Carnegie Library	Tooele	Building	1984
Tooele City Downtown Historic District	Tooele	District	2023
Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall	Tooele	Building	1983
Tooele Valley Railroad Complex	Tooele	Building	1984
Wendover Air Force Base	Wendover	Building	1975
Wrathall, James and Penninah, House	Grantsville	Building	2006

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Tooele was formed in 1850 (1850-01-31) from unknown / original county.

TOOELE (spelled TUILLA here) created by the state of Deseret to cover the Tuilla/Tooele Valley.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Tooele County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
152	1,008	4,497	7,361	7,965	9,133	14,636	17,868	26,033	40,735	72,698

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

19 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Chief Green Jacket Grave	40.01107	-112.39725
Clover Cemetery	40.3316	-112.47883
Erda Pioneer Cemetery	40.6076	-112.30288
Grantsville City Cemetery	40.60133	-112.47689
Ibapah Cemetery	40.03354	-113.97805
Iosepa Setttement Cemetery	40.54216	-112.73357
Johnson Cemetery	40.32195	-112.34083
Lake Point Cemetery	40.6714	-112.26356
Mercur Cemetery	40.30445	-112.2589
Old Faust Ranch Cemetery	40.15498	-112.43457
Ophir New Cemetery	40.35734	-112.29057
Ophir Old Cemetery	40.35739	-112.28919
Saint John Cemetery	40.3616	-112.46077
Stansbury Park Cemetery	40.65125	-112.29984
Stockton Cemetery	40.45914	-112.36526
Tooele City Cemetery	40.52244	-112.29493
Tooeles First Cemetery	40.51649	-112.30419
Vernon Cemetery	40.08633	-112.43244
Wendover Cemetery	40.7481	-114.03755

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Iosepa	40.53716	-112.74441
Mercur	40.32078	-112.21217
Tad Park	40.49994	-112.33911

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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