Arinosa is a

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located in Tooele County,

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, United States. Arinosa is 19 miles east of

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and 100 miles west of

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, in the middle of the

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. Although it lies along the route of the current

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, there is no exit providing access to the area. Arinosa began in the early 1880s as a rail maintenance community,Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press. and was on the route of the Western Pacific in the early twentieth century, between the stops of Salduro and Barro. The town also lay along the historic route of

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, which paralleled the Western Pacific line through western Utah. In the 1920s, a chlorine production company built processing facilities there.History of Potash Production from the Salduro Salt Marsh (Bonneville Salt Flats), Tooele County
Utah Geological Survey. In the 1950s the settlement was abandoned due to dearth of available water and shifting transportation patterns. No buildings survive the settlement, although Metaphor: The Tree of Utah is only a few miles east of the former site of Arinosa.

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