Tooele, Utah Tooele, Utah Tooele City Hall Tooele City Hall Location in Tooele County and the state of Utah Location in Tooele County and the state of Utah County Tooele Tooele (Listeni/tu l / too-el- ) is a town/city in Tooele County in the U.S.
The populace was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 32,115 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Tooele County. About 30 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele is known for Tooele Army Depot, for its views of the close-by Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake.
The Tooele Valley had no permanent settlement when Mormon pioneers entered the Great Salt Lake Valley in July 1847; it was veiled with abundant tall grass.
The Mormons first used the valley as wintering grounds for their herds. In September 1849, three families settled on a small stream south of present Tooele City.
Other families slowly joined them, and by 1853 Tooele City Corporation was organized.
The 20th century brought more industrialization; in 1905 the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad assembled a line through the city, and in 1909 a smelter was assembled in Carr Fork Canyon east of the town/city ("International Smelting and Refining Company").
The Tooele Valley Railway, a seven-mile line, ran from the smelter west to the Union Pacific Railroad chief line.
The Tooele Valley Railway was used to haul away the scrap when the International smelter was torn down, and remained to serve the Pine Canyon mill.
In the easterly section of Tooele, "New Town" was assembled for many of the 1,000 smelter workers.
When World War II started, the Federal Government obtained 25,000 acres in the SW part of the Tooele Valley to establish an ordnance depot ("Tooele Ordnance Depot"). In 1993 the scope and mission of the Tooele Army Depot (as the previous Ordnance Depot was now called) was reduced, and about 1,700 acres of its region including many buildings were took in to Tooele City.
The US Army conveyed 40 acres of land, including a newly constructed large-vehicle maintenance structure ("Consolidated Maintenance Facility") to the City, who converted it into an industrialized complex ("Utah Industrial Depot", UID).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 21.2 square miles (54.8 km ), of which 21.1 square miles (54.8 km ) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ) (0.09%) is water.
Tooele is positioned on the slope of the Oquirrh Mountains in the Tooele Valley, the next valley west of the well-known Salt Lake Valley.
Climate data for Tooele, Utah (1981 2010) The historic Tooele County Courthouse and Tooele City Hall The Tooele Valley Railroad Complex historic site The Tooele County School District, headquartered in Tooele, includes 15 elementary schools and one Early Learning Center; nine of these units are inside City limits (Copper Canyon, East, Harris, Middle Canyon, Northlake, Overlake, Settlement Canyon, West, and the Early Learning Center), three junior high schools, of which two are inside City limits (Tooele, and Clarke N.
There is a county-wide ground of Utah State University and the Tooele Applied Technology College, a ground of the Utah College of Applied Technology inside town/city boundaries.
Tooele is also served by Scholar Academy Charter School. Water Water rights are tightly controlled throughout Tooele County.
Sewer Tooele City, Grantsville, Stansbury Park and Lakepoint have sanitary sewage systems.
Electricity Most of Tooele County, including Tooele City, is served by Rocky Mountain Power.
Natural gas Tooele City, Grantsville, Stansbury Park, Lakepoint and some of the contiguous unincorporated areas are served by Questar.
Communications Tooele County is served by a several telecommunications providers.
Comcast also serves Tooele, Grantsville and Stansbury park with cable, phone and internet.
Beehive Broadband serves Tooele County with phone, TV and up to 1 Gbit/s internet service.
Kennecott Utah Copper - operates the Kennecott Bingham Copper Mine, the world's biggest open-pit excavation mine on the other side of the Oquirrh Mountains from Tooele's location.
Energy Solutions (formerly known as Envirocare), a waste-storage facility in Clive, west of Tooele Valley.
Tooele county governmental agencies Tooele Industrial Depot - A portion of the previous Tooele Army Depot has been turned back to the small-town area, and many of the government-constructed buildings in that region are now filled with manufacturing facilities, warehouses and bureaus.
The region is administered by a consortium known as Tooele Industrial Depot.
Tooele was the recording locale of the 2009 comedy Gentlemen Broncos.
Tooele appeared on Newsmax magazine's 2009 list of the "Top 25 Most Uniquely American Cities and Towns," by CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg. Tooele was titled as one of the locations for the second season of Prison Break, yet the episodes were filmed in Texas.
Utah Motorsports Campus, an auto, motorcycle, bicycle and kart racing facility northwest of Tooele City.
The Tooele Arts Festival, an annual 3-day event, hosts vendors of one-of-a-kind artwork, including paintings, jewelry, ceramics, photographs, sculptures.
Due to this unpredictability, sponsors decided in 1998 to move it to the final weekend of June, although this puts it in direct competition with the much larger Utah Arts Festival, held in Salt Lake City on the same dates.
The 2011 Tooele Arts Festival was cancelled due to lack of volunteers, which was the first time since 1985 that no arts festival was held in Tooele City.
Until 2000 the annual Tooele County Fair was held amid the first week of August at the Tooele County Fairgrounds, inside Tooele City.
After that date it has been held at the Deseret Peak Complex, positioned in the Tooele Valley midway between Tooele City and Grantsville City.
Tooele has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Tooele Army Depot Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tooele, Utah.
Tooele City website International Smelter at Tooele Anaconda In Utah, Utah - Rails.net (accessed 23 November 2014) History of Tooele (Tooele City website; accessed 23 November 2014) In the same year, a storage depot for chemical weapons was also begun 20 miles south of Tooele City; the "Deseret Chemical Depot".
Tooele County School District website "Tooele High School".
"Festival News Tooele Arts Festival".
Official Tooele City website Municipalities and communities of Tooele County, Utah, United States
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