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| Type | Public, Technical College |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | UTECH, Utah System of Higher Education |
| President | Paul Hacking |
| Location | , , United States |
| Website | www.tooeletech.edu |
Tooele Technical College is a public technical school in Tooele, Utah. It is part of the Utah System of Technical Colleges. Tooele Technical College offers high school students and adults living in Tooele County programs in Business, Health Care, Information, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Service Industry Technologies.
Coordinates: 40°31′51″N112°18′01″W / 40.53083°N 112.30028°W
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Tooele County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 58,218. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year.
Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 32,115 in 2010. It is the county seat of Tooele County. Located approximately 30 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele is known for Tooele Army Depot, for its views of the nearby Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake.
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The Goshutes are a tribe of Western Shoshone Native Americans. There are two federally recognized Goshute tribes today:
Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) is a United States Army Joint Munitions Command post in Tooele County, Utah. It serves as a storage site for war reserve and training ammunition. The depot stores, issues, receives, renovates, modifies, maintains and demilitarizes conventional munitions. The depot also serves as the National Inventory Control Point for ammunition peculiar equipment, developing, fabricating, modifying, storing and distributing such equipment to all services and other customers worldwide. TEAD provides base support to Deseret Chemical Depot.
The Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility or TOCDF, is a U.S. Army facility located at Deseret Chemical Depot in Tooele County, Utah that was used for dismantling chemical weapons.
The Deseret Chemical Depot was a U.S. Army chemical weapon storage area located in Utah, 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Salt Lake City. It is related to the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.
Harkers Canyon is located 20 km (12 mi) west-southwest of downtown Salt Lake City, in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. The canyon empties into the Salt Lake Valley from its origin in the Oquirrh Mountains. The canyon is oriented primarily from southwest to northeast, with the middle third of the canyon descending from west to east. Harkers Canyon and surrounding land are owned and managed by the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation and has been mined for copper.
Harkers Canyon is located 8.5 km (5.3 mi) southeast of the town of Tooele, in Tooele County, Utah, USA. Located high in the Oquirrh Mountains, the canyon is oriented north-south, and drains into Middle Canyon at its northern end. Harkers Canyon is about 2.2 km (1.4 mi) long. The top of the canyon at its southern end is at approximately 2900 m (9500 ft) elevation. The mouth of Harkers Canyon is at 1975 m (6480 ft) elevation. Harkers Canyon is in the Rush Valley watershed.
Faust is a settlement located in central Tooele County, Utah, United States.
Shambip County was a county in Utah Territory, United States from 1856 to 1862.
The Salt Lake City metropolitan area is the metropolitan area centered on the city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau currently define the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area as comprising two counties: Salt Lake and Tooele. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 1,087,873. As of July 1, 2014 the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates division placed the population at 1,153,340, an increase of 65,467 or 6.0 percent since April 2010; out of 381 total MSAs, the Census Bureau ranks it as the 48th largest MSA in the United States in 2014 and the 58th fastest growing since 2010. The Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area and the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Area were a single metropolitan area known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden Metropolitan Area until being separated in 2005.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in Utah for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers.
The Utah System of Technical Colleges is a system of public technical colleges in Utah. It is governed by a board of trustees appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Utah State Senate.
The Deseret Test Center was a U.S. Army operated command in charge for testing chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s. The Deseret was headquartered at Fort Douglas, Utah, a former U.S. Army base.
State Route 112 (SR-112) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. It is approximately 8.2 miles (13.2 km) long and connects Tooele and Grantsville in Tooele County. It also provides access to the Tooele Army Depot.
Utah State University–Tooele is a part of the Utah State University Regional Campuses and Distance Education system located in Tooele, Utah offering a number of Associate, bachelor's and master's degrees as well as certificate programs and a Doctor of Education program. Classes are taught online, face-to-face, and interactive broadcast. USU-Tooele has 10 full-time faculty members in addition to the several adjunct professors who collectively teach more than 300 classes. The campus provides academic advising and free tutoring.
Benson Grist Mill is a restoration-replica museum located in Tooele County, Utah in the western United States, which allows visitors to see the inner workings of a latter-nineteenth-century pioneer gristmill. It has four other historic (nineteenth-century) buildings which have been moved onto the site, as well as four ancillary structures, including an open-air pavilion. It covers 6.98 acres along State Highway 138, 0.8 mile southwest of the intersection of the Road with State Highway 36. The museum is owned and operated by a division of Tooele County.
Benmore is a ghost town in Tooele County, in the U.S. state of Utah.
