- 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: 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; the rail line between Kelton and the Section Station at Terrace was known as the Promontory Branch, a heavily traveled stretch of the railway; 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
- 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
- This Northern Utah class 3 ghost town has no known inhabitants
