Rush Valley is a long north-trending valley in the southeast of
Tooele County,
Utah
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. It lies adjacent to and attached to the south of
Tooele Valley; the separation point is the low point of the valley at
Rush Lake, and lies at the southeast of the small mountain
massif
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causing the separation, South Mountain at . The region of Rush Lake is a marsh region, fed by various streams from the mountain regions east and west.
A southern section of the
Tooele Army Depot lies in the valley's center-northeast, at the southwest foothills of the
Oquirrh Mountains
The Oquirrh Mountains is a mountain range that runs north-south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. The range runs from northwestern Utah County–centra ...
.
Valley description
Rush Valley narrows to about wide in the north, between the
Stansbury Mountains
The Stansbury Mountains are a long mountain range located in eastern Tooele County, Utah. It is named for U.S. Army Major Howard Stansbury, a topographical engineer, who led an expedition that surveyed the region.
The range trends north–sout ...
west, and the Oquirrh Mountains east. The valley widens in the south, making two sections, a due-south section, and a region to the southeast. The southern section contains the communities of
Vernon and
Faust
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, with Faust north, closer to the valley's center-south. Vernon is in flatlands fed by the
Sheeprock Mountains
The Sheeprock Mountains are a 24-mile (39 km) long mountain range located in extreme southeast Tooele County, Utah, and part of northeast Juab County. The range trends southeasterly and forms a section of the northeast perimeter of the large ...
or foothills, southwest, south, and southeast.
The southeast valley section is long
[Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 24, 25.] from the Rush Valley center and lies at the northwest of the East Tintic Mountains. A ridge north separates Rush Valley from Cedar Valley to the east.
Lofgreen is in mountain foothills southwest, and
Pehrson with
Topliff are in lower elevation regions.
The two southern sections cover a width of about , south of the valley center. The Rush Valley Centerpoint is north of
Faust
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, and the small James Walter Fitzgerald Wildlife Management Area.
Access
Utah State Route 36 (SR-36) transects the center of the valley, starting from a section at the northeast, from
Tooele
Tooele ( ) is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 35,742 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Tooele County. Located approximately 30 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele is known for Tooele Ar ...
and
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. It turns and leaves the valley's southeast to meet the region of
Eureka and
Silver City in the
East Tintic Mountains
The East Tintic Mountains are a mountain range in central Juab, Utah, and Tooele counties in Utah, United States on the east margin of the Great Basin just west of the Wasatch Front about south-southeast of Salt Lake City. The community of Eur ...
.
Utah State Route 73 (SR-73) joins SR-36 at the valley's center after traversing the south of the Oquirrh Mountains in the valley's southeast (the north perimeter of the southeast section).
From the West,
Utah State Route 199 (SR-199) enters the valley center from
Dugway, and its canyon route through the western mountains is the dividing line between the
Stansbury Mountains
The Stansbury Mountains are a long mountain range located in eastern Tooele County, Utah. It is named for U.S. Army Major Howard Stansbury, a topographical engineer, who led an expedition that surveyed the region.
The range trends north–sout ...
north, and the
Onaqui Mountains south.
File:Utah Lake Landsat.png, 3 valley sequences (west-to-east) —
Skull Valley, Tooele Valley-north & Rush Valley-south, Cedar Valley-(southeast, and smallest valley, at Lake Mountains
The Lake Mountains (also known as simply Lake Mountain) are a mountain range located on the western edge of the Utah Valley in northwestern Utah County, Utah, United States. The range forms the northwest border of Utah Lake, and its proxi ...
, west border of Utah Lake
Utah Lake is a shallow freshwater lake in the center of Utah County, Utah, Utah County, Utah, United States. It lies in Utah Valley, surrounded by the Provo, Utah, Provo-Orem, Utah, Orem metropolitan area. The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan ...
)
File:1852 Stansbury Map of Utah and the Great Salt Lake - Geographicus - GreatSaltLake2-stansbury-1852.jpg, 1852 Stansbury Map
References
External links
{{commons category, Rush Valley
Map: South Mountain & Rush Lake region, topographic map (topoquest)
Landforms of Tooele County, Utah
Valleys of Utah
Valleys of the Great Basin