Big, empty and growing
The county covers 7,286 square miles, most of it arid, and reaches Nevada on the west. The Great Salt Lake Desert covers much of the western half, with the Bonneville Salt Flats in the west. I-80 and the old Wendover Cut-off cross the flats. The people live in Tooele Valley on the eastern edge, between the Stansbury and Oquirrh mountains.
Roads and facilities
Beyond I-80 the county has Utah state routes 36, 73, 112, 138, 179, 196 and 199. Mining has mattered since the 1860s. Tooele Army Depot opened in 1942 and Dugway Proving Ground is in the county.
A Walmart distribution centre stands just outside Grantsville, and the Utah Inland Port Authority created two project areas in December 2023, Tooele Valley and Twenty Wells. These hint at where warehouse space is being added.
Cities you might write from
- Grantsville, at the I-80 exits, ZIP 84029.
- Tooele, the county seat and largest city, where SR-36 and SR-112 meet.
- Lake Point, Erda and Stansbury Park, small communities on the east side.
How pallets differ here
Distance is the main factor. A pile west of Lake Point sits a long way out, and a half-day round trip changes the economics of a small pile. Larger counts, such as a distribution centre's weekly output, justify the drive more easily. The I-80 west corridor covers the road.
The depot and the valley
Tooele Army Depot handed Building 687, one of five former World War II warehouses, to the locally owned Five Star General Industrial in a ceremony on September 8, 2021; the other four are scheduled to follow under a six-year divestiture plan, and the firm is converting them into industrial space.
Grantsville
Grantsville is the second-most populous city in Tooele County, in ZIP 84029. Its pallet traffic is retail distribution and warehousing near the I-80 exits, and requests are best framed around one load or one weekly figure.
- ZIP: 84029
- Highway: SR-138 to I-80
- Port area: Twenty Wells
Setting
South Mountain lies to the south and separates Rush Valley from Tooele Valley. Stansbury Island lies to the north, the Oquirrhs and the Great Salt Lake to the east, and the Stansbury Mountains to the west. Lake-effect snow from the Great Salt Lake occasionally affects the city, though it is usually too far southwest for much of it. Summers are hot and winters cold and snowy.
How trucks get in and out
State Route 138 passes through the city, runs northwest to meet I-80 and east to Stansbury Park. On I-80 the Grantsville exit is number 88, and exit 84 is SR-138 toward Grantsville and Tooele. The Utah Inland Port Authority created a project area here called Twenty Wells in December 2023.
The economy in two lines
No large employer is based in the town itself, but a Walmart distribution centre stands just outside the city, and 72.8 percent of employment is with private companies.
What the distance means for a request
- State the weekly or one-off count clearly, because nothing here is a short hop.
- Name the exit you use, 88 or 84.
- Say if a trailer or a container is parked on site that can be loaded directly.
- Mention snow dates: wet stacks are heavier and slow to dry, which affects grade and value.
For a retail distribution dock that sends out hundreds of pallets a week, recurring dock surplus describes the way to put numbers on it.
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