UP-08 Blue Creek Construction Camp

    UP-08 Blue Creek Construction Camp

    Last Mortified:

    • Settled:  Settled in the 1890s and abandoned in the 1900s
    • Origin of Name: Also called ‘Deadfall,’ or ‘Hell’s Half Acre,’ Blue Creek’s time as a “Hell on Wheels” was wild, with all the vices seemingly known to man, including gambling, drinking and other vices; one reported said, “it is not uncommon for two or three men to be shot or knifed every day;” named after Blue Creek Spring, whose water is of a bluish cast; Blue Creek drains through Blue Creek Reservoir, flowing into the north bay of Great Salt Lake 
    • Function: Site of a railroad wye and water tank, which was fed from the Blue Creek that flows west of the railroad grade; “helper” engines were housed here to assist engines pull their heavily-loaded trains up the east slope of the Promontory range
    • Location:  Fifteen miles southeast of Snowville on I-80 and US 30 S; two and a half miles south is Blue Creek Spring which gave the site its name; 16.8 miles west of Corinne
    • No Population estimates for this isolated, Northern Utah community