Blue Creek

  • Settled:  Settled in the 1890s and abandoned in the 1900s
  • Origin of Name: 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