The strip
The Wasatch Front had 2,527,205 residents at the 2020 census, up 18.43 percent from 2,133,909 in 2010, and accounts for about 80 percent of Utah's economy. I-15 runs its length, I-80 crosses Salt Lake City, I-84 serves Ogden and I-215 circles the inner Salt Lake Valley. Union Pacific and BNSF both run intermodal facilities on the west side of Salt Lake City.
Counties and their cities
| County | Pages | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Weber | Ogden, Business Depot Ogden | Automotive safety, food, depot park |
| Davis | Clearfield, Freeport Center, Layton, Woods Cross, North Salt Lake | Freeport Center, aerospace |
| Salt Lake | Salt Lake City, Northwest Quadrant, West Valley City, South Salt Lake, West Jordan | Warehousing, rail, parcels |
| Tooele | Grantsville | Retail distribution along I-80 |
| Utah | Lehi, Orem, Provo, Spanish Fork | Semiconductors, food, metal |
Two roads that tie it together
The I-15 corridor runs north to south through four of the five counties. The I-80 west corridor carries freight from the rail yards to Tooele County. Counties: Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Tooele, Utah.
How to read an area
- Find your city and read the roads and the districts.
- Note the ZIP of your dock.
- Look at the industries named for context and compare them to your dock.
- Send a request with a count, a size and how a truck could reach the pile.
Employers named in an area are context for the freight of that place.
How the five counties differ
- Weber County: rail history, Ogden and its depot park, with food, composite and automotive-safety work.
- Davis County: the Freeport Center, Hill Air Force Base and a string of cities between them.
- Salt Lake County: the biggest concentration of docks, the Northwest Quadrant and the airport.
- Tooele County: wide, flat valleys with new distribution buildings on the I-80 side.
- Utah County: technology, food processing and metal fabrication from Lehi to Spanish Fork.
The Utah Inland Port Authority describes a jurisdictional area of about 16,000 acres in the Northwest Quadrant of Salt Lake County, most of it privately held, which is a reminder of how much land the region has set aside for warehouses and rail.
Writing to the right place
If you have pallets in more than one county, send one request for each, naming the city and the county. A single request that mixes Ogden, Salt Lake City and Provo is harder to answer than three short ones. If you are not sure which county a street belongs to, use the ZIP code and the nearest freeway exit.