- Settled: Developed by the Central Pacific Railroad as a stage stop, freighting hub and Section Station during construction of the transcontinental railroad in 1869
- Origin of Name: Named after an early stockman, named Kelton
- Original Name: Indian Creek, after the creek in that area
- Notable Features: An important camp that grew to be an important city, supplying miners and state stations on the way to northern mines and diggings in the Snake River area- nearly all the supplies for that area traveled through Kelton, staged laden with gold and silver traveled through, on their way to the smelters and assay offfices in Salt Lake City; at one time Kelton had a number of fine buildings, including a brick school house, several two-story hotels, well stocked stores, comfortable homes, a whole row of saloons, gambling halls, freighting and railway stations and even a telephone exchange and post office
- Known for: Kelton was an important freighting and railroad hub, but became totally dependent upon the fortunes of the railroad; in its early years, the Wells Fargo Stageline coach was reportedly the most robbed stagecoach in the west, holdups occurred weekly, and often on a daily basis; Kelton was the central shipping hub from Boise and Wood River areas in Idaho and the rich goldfields of Montana, and the rugged terrain provided plenty of cover; during the 1870s, six million pounds of freight per year were loaded from trains into wagons in Kelton; the rail line between Kelton and the Section Station at Terrace was known as the Promontory Branch, a heavily traveled stretch of the railway; also an important stage location, the Wells Fargo stageline from Kelton to the northern mines was the most often robbed stagecoach in the west, with stages held up nearly every week and almost daily, but Wells Fargo would never announce their losses, though they must have been huge, with one robbery of over $100.000 in 1872, another in 1879 of $90,000 and in 1991 a bullion shipment worth $141,000 was taken; in July 1882, the same stage was robbed the same stage twice in the same week; much of the loot was reportedly stashed in the City of Rocks; the Lucin Cutoff, built in 1903, bypassed the Promontory Branch and the towns dwindled; later the town was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1934, which opened three-foot wide cracks in the earth, shook buildings and houses violently, and caused the schoolhouse to be abandoned; in 1942, rail tracks of the Promontory Branch were removed and sold for scrap during World War II and Kelton died; buildings were stripped by scavengers, old rail yards and homesites are now vacant, with only a lonely cemetery remaining of this once-proud railroad town, whose population in the 1880s was estimated at 150
- National Parks Signpost: Summarizes the rise and fall of Kelton as a shipping hub
- Location: North of the northernmost point reached by the Central Pacific line, about eight miles west of Monument Point, and seven miles west of Locomotive Springs, about sixty miles northwest of Brigham City and 70.3 miles (1 hour, 8 minutes) from Tremonton, near the Utah-Nevada border, twenty miles from the northwest corner of Great Salt Lake, 64 miles from the Nevada border
- This Northern Utah class 3 ghost town has no known inhabitants
