Vipont, UT

    • Settled: In 1899 when gold and silver were discovered there by John Angove
    • Origin of Name:  Named after the Vipont brothers, who discovered the silver vein, which became known as the Vipont Mine
    • Historic Summary: Prosperous gold and silver mine from 1899 to 1920s; as many as three hundred workers were employed there at the same time; a tramway was built from the mine to a concentrating mill; ore was shipped from the area into the 1940s
    • Location: Five miles east of Goose Creek, a few miles south of the Idaho border, thirty-five miles north of the railway station at Lucin and twenty-six miles south of the Oregon Short Line Railroad as it passes near Oakley, Idaho, two miles south of Granite Pass on the old California Emigrant Trail; 109 miles (2 hours, 23 minutes) northwest of Tremonton on I-84, then Hwy 30 W
    • No Population estimates for this isolated, Northern Utah ghost town 

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