UP-09 Lampo Junction & Construction Camp

UP-09 Lampo Junction & Construction Camp

  • Established: In 1869, as a temporary construction camp on the Union Pacific Rail Road
  • Original Name: Kolmar, or Colmar, after a railroad official; was also known as Junction City
  • Known for:  An original pioneer camp spot; it became an agricultural siding on the railroad; about half a mile north of Lampo is one of the few remaining original cylindrical culverts; an original drill is still stuck in a rock wall north of Lampo, between it and Howell; just east is the cluster of buildings and Rocket Garden, built for Thiokol, and now occupied by Northrup Grumman, the aerospace and defense technology contractor
  • Location: About two miles north of Blue Creek
  • No Population estimates for this isolated, Northern Utah railroad camp and junction