Gold Hill, Utah

Gold Hill is a small, unincorporated village in far western Tooele County, Utah, USA, near the Nevada state line. The town, located near the Deep Creek Mountains, was the center of a mining district that was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, producing gold, copper, arsenic, and tungsten. Gold Hill was the southern terminus of the Deep Creek Railroad.

Although gold was first discovered at Gold Hill in 1858, settlement didn't begin until the 1870s, after a smelter was built here in 1871. [cite book | last = Van Cott | first = John W. | title = Utah Place Names | year = 1990 | publisher = University of Utah Press | location = Salt Lake City, Utah | pages = p.156 | isbn = 0-87480-345-4 ] As other nearby mines started to fail, Gold Hill began to grow famous in the mining industry. Its ore was among the richest known at the time. After the rich copper and gold mines were worked out, the area enjoyed a resurgence when World War I created a demand for arsenic. A smaller period of growth occurred during World War II, after which mining was discontinued. Gold Hill is now nearly a ghost town, with only a handful of remaining residents.

Jack Dempsey mined there before beginning his boxing career.

A United States post office operated at Gold Hill from 1911 to 1949. [http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=UT&county=Tooele]

References

* cite book
last = Thompson
first = George A.
title = Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures
publisher = Dream Garden Press
date = 1982
location = Salt Lake City, Utah
pages = p.167
isbn = 0-942688-01-5