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1972 Map of Mills Junction

Name: 1972 Topographic Map of Mills Junction
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1974
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1974

About this map

Industrial salt production and historical crossroads meet along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake in the early 1970s. The landscape is dominated by the Western Pacific Salt Evaporators and several large salt evaporators situated on the alkali or mud flats. This era shows a transition in land use as the Stansbury Golf Course and Stansbury Lake emerge just south of the industrial brine operations.

Transport corridors like the Western Pacific and Union Pacific railroads converge near Mills Junction, where the Adobe Rock Historical Marker serves as a reminder of earlier pioneers. Local life is anchored by small settlements like Lake Point and Erda, with the Lake Point Cem providing a genealogical anchor for the region. The presence of numerous flowing wells and the irrigation aqueduct highlights the ongoing effort to manage water in the arid Tooele Valley.