UP-09 Lampo Junction & Construction Camp

Established: In 1869, as a temporary construction camp on the Union Pacific Rail Road
Original Name: Kolmar, or Colmar, after a railroad official; was also known as Junction City
Known for: The last UP camp before Promontory, Lampo was an original rail camp; it became an agricultural siding on the railroad; about half a mile north of Lampo is one of the few remaining original cylindrical culverts; an original drill is still stuck in a rock wall north of Lampo, on Hwy 38 E to Howell; just east is the cluster of buildings and Rocket Garden, built for Thiokol, and now occupied by Northrup Grumman, the aerospace and defense technology contractor; a natural rock formation on the north side of the road between Lampo and Promontory, was christened The Chinese Arch (or Monument,) to honor the more than 10,000 Chinese railroad workers
Location: About two miles north of Blue Creek
No Population estimates for this northern Utah junction, rail camp and ghost town