Skull Valley is a long''Utah Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 6th ed., 2014, pp. 15, 16, 23 & 24

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...

located in east

Tooele County Tooele County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 58,218. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year. Tooele County ...

Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...

, United States at the southwest of the

Great Salt Lake The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particula ...

. The valley trends north–south, but turns slightly northeast to meet Stansbury Bay, (adjacent

Stansbury Island Stansbury Island is the second largest island within the Great Salt Lake in the U.S. state of Utah. Located in Tooele County, it is considered an island even though a dirt causeway connects it to the mainland. Stansbury Island was named after Ho ...

). Skull Valley's south and southwest borders the southeast

Great Salt Lake Desert The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for w ...

at Dugway and at a ridgeline southeast from the Cedar Mountains. The

Skull Valley Indian Reservation The Skull Valley Indian Reservation (Gosiute dialect: Wepayuttax) is located in Tooele County, Utah, United States, approximately southwest of Salt Lake City. It is inhabited by the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah, a federally recog ...

is located in the valley's south at the southwest foothills of the Stansbury Mountains; adjacent southeast, the valley narrows between the Stansbury Mountains and the Cedar Mountains at the west, a region of creeks from the Stansburys and valley springs, Willow Patch Springs and Scribner Spring. Creeks and springs from the northwest

Onaqui Mountains The Onaqui Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern Tooele County, Utah United States. Description The range is part of a continuous range with the Stansbury Mountains and Sheeprock Mountains. The highest point is Stookey Benchmark, which ...

also feed the southeast valley region.

Description

Skull Valley trends north-south but narrows slightly northeast towards Stansbury Bay; the Lakeside Mountains at

Delle Delle () is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France. Delle is the last French town on the railway line from Belfort to Berne, in Switzerland. The railway station in Delle is served by ...

, and the northwest Stansbury Mountains at Timpie from the narrowing of the valley; Skull Valley and sections of the mountain ranges form the Great Salt Lake's southwest border. Skull Valley narrows southeastwards at the springs, as described. Bordering southwest here, is a southeast trending 16 mi long ridgeline from the west perimeter Cedar Mountains, which separates the

Dugway Proving Ground Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a U.S. Army facility established in 1942 to test biological and chemical weapons, located about southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, and south of the Utah Test and Training Range. Location Dugway P ...

s and the Great Salt Lake Desert region from the southwest Skull Valley. The valley's center is adjacent west of Iosepa. A dissected region of sinks and flood land from neighboring washes and creeks form this valley center; this dissected flood land area is about four miles wide at its widest southwest of Iosepa, and extends seven miles northwards towards the beginning of areas of salt flats, associated with the Great Salt Lake.

References

External links

Landforms of Tooele County, Utah Valleys of Utah Valleys of the Great Basin {{Utah-geo-stub

Description

See also

References

External links