Low, Utah

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Low

| settlement_type = Ghost town

| image_skyline =

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| image_caption =

| pushpin_map = Utah#USA

| pushpin_label_position = left

| map_caption = Location of Low within the State of Utah

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Utah

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Tooele

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1880

| named_for =

| extinct_title = Abandoned

| extinct_date = 1955

| elevation_footnotes =

| elevation_ft = 4600

| elevation_m = 1402

| coordinates = {{coord|40|47|08|N|112|56|26|W|region:US-UT|display=inline,title}}

| blank_name = GNIS feature ID

| blank_info = 1437626

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Low is a ghost town in northern Tooele County, Utah, United States.{{gnis|1437626}}

Low was established in 1880 as a construction and maintenance camp on a siding of the Western Pacific Railroad. Its name may have derived from its location on a low pass between the Cedar Mountains to the south, and the Grassy Mountains to the north.

Local water was unavailable so the camp was abandoned in 1955. A scattering of ruins remain.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3Pqk9tazU4C&pg=PP1|title=Utah Place Names|last=Van Cott|first=John W.|publisher=University of Utah Press|location=Salt Lake City|page=236|year=1990|isbn=9780874803457}}

The Low Flight Strip is an abandoned military airfield located approximately {{convert|13|mi|km}} west of Low.

Interstate 80 runs west of Low, and Exit 62 is known as the "Low Interchange".{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}

The "Low Transportation Corridor" or "Low Rail Corridor" both refer to a proposed rail line to carry spent nuclear fuel from the Union Pacific mainline at the junction of Interstate 80 near the Low Interchange, to the Skull Valley Indian Reservation, across {{convert|1593|acre}} of Bureau of Land Management land within the Skull Valley.{{cite web|url=http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML0037/ML003728944.pdf|title=STATE OF UTAH'S CONTENTIONS RELATING TO THE LOW RAIL TRANSPORTATION LICENSE AMENDMENT|website=nrc.gov|publisher=U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission|date=29 Sep 1998}}{{cite web|url=http://www.deq.utah.gov/Issues/topics/highlevelwaste/docs/2006/May/X3DeclBraxtonFnl.pdf|title=DECLARATION OF JEAN BRAXTON|website=deq.utah.gov|publisher=Utah Department of Environmental Quality|year=2006}}

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{{Tooele County, Utah}}

Category:Ghost towns in Tooele County, Utah

Category:Ghost towns in Utah

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