Skull Valley (Utah)

Skull Valley
View south-southeast, from Timpie area (northeast valley at Stansbury Mountains from Great Salt Lake (saltflats))
Skull Valley is located in Utah
Skull Valley
Skull Valley
Tooele County, Utah, United States
Length40 mi (64 km)
Width12 mi (19 km)
Geography
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Coordinates40°32′14″N 112°44′40″W / 40.53722°N 112.74444°W / 40.53722; -112.74444

Skull Valley is a 40-mile (64 km) long[1] valley located in east Tooele County, Utah, United States at the southwest of the Great Salt Lake.[2] The valley trends north–south, but turns slightly northeast to meet Stansbury Bay, (adjacent Stansbury Island).

Skull Valley's south and southwest borders the southeast Great Salt Lake Desert at Dugway and at a ridgeline southeast from the Cedar Mountains.

The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is located in the valley's south at the southwest foothills of the Stansbury Mountains; adjacent southeast, the valley narrows between the Stansbury Mountains and the Cedar Mountains at the west, a region of creeks from the Stansburys and valley springs, Willow Patch Springs and Scribner Spring. Creeks and springs from the northwest Onaqui Mountains also feed the southeast valley region.

  1. ^ Utah Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 6th ed., 2014, pp. 15, 16, 23 & 24 ISBN 0899332552
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Skull Valley