- Established: Originally the last of the construction camps of The Central Pacific Railroad in 1869, built during construction of the original transcontinental railroad
- Origin of Name: Named for Terrace Mountain, which has terraces left by ancient Lake Bonneville
- Miles from San Francisco: 702.1
- Used by Railroad: 1869- 1910
- Railroad Function: Served as maintenance shop and repair headquarters for the Salt Lake Division; facilities included a 16-stall roundhouse, machine shop, coal sheds, water tanks and an eight-track switchyard; sustained by railroad shops, Terrace prospered and became a population center in northwestern Utah
- Historical Overview: Terrace served the Central Pacific as the maintenance and repair headquarters for the Salt Lake Division of the railroad; facilities included a 16-stall roundhouse, machine shop, coal sheds, water tanks, and an eight-track switchyard; sustained by the railroad shops, Terrace prospered and was said to be the largest town between Ogden, Utah and Elko, Nevada, but its population dwindled when railroad traffic was diverted by the Lucin cutoff; the rail shop moved to Nevada in 1900 and a subsequent fire destroyed what was left of the community; at one time, Terrace featured a business district, including barber shop, restaurant, general store and mill, grocery & meat store, 2 hotels, Wells Fargo & Company Express, a telegraph, railroad agent, a school, a saloon, a justice of the peace and a constable; a commercial center and library, known as the Athenium was a prominent building, along with railroad offices and shops; about 1900 the railroad shops moved to Montello and Carlin, Nevada and the town folded; when the railroad tracks were taken up and scrapped during World War II, Terrace was completely abandoned; today there is little evidence of the once thriving community; it has a cemetery.
- Location: Located along the route of the old transcontinental grade, about 28 miles southwest of Park Valley, UT
- No Population estimates for this isolated northern Utah ghost town; Its 1870 population was reported at 125, and 350 in 1879; Chinese workers, known as “coolies” was not always reported, some estimate up to 500 Chinese lived here
