Name: Salt Wells
County: Sweetwater
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GNIS Entry
Longitude: 1085909W
Latitude: 413917N
Legal Description:
Elevation: 6381/1945
(ft/m)
Feature Type: Populated Place
Origin of Name:
This station takes its name from the salt water found at every attempt to sink a well for good water, which is hauled fifty or sixty miles for the use of engines and domestic purposes.
Source: Brown's Gazetteer
Other Names: Salt Wells Station
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History:
A station on the Overland Route and Union Pacific Railroad between Thayer Junction and Baxter.
Source: Guidebook of the Western United States
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1:24000 Quadrangle: Thayer Junction
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