- Established: 1869, by Central Pacific Railroad, during construction of original transcontinental railroad
- Origin of Name: Named for the stone monument erected at the site where the rails met
- Miles from San Francisco: 748.6
- Used by Railroad: 1869- 1942
- Railroad Function: Site of the famous photograph, showing Leland Standford’s personal train passing the “last wagon train heading west;” had a railroad siding and spur (the spur was known as “Monument, and a rail ”wye’; home of Desert Salt Works; the siding provided freighting facilities to local sheep ranchers
- Location: The northernmost point of the Transcontinental Railroad in Box Elder County, just east of Monument Point
- No Population estimates for this isolated northern Utah rail siding
