Jackson, Utah

Jackson is a ghost town in the western desert of Box Elder County, Utah, United States.^[1] It lies on the western end of the Lucin Cutoff, just west of the Great Salt Lake. Jackson was never much more than a railroad siding, named by the railroad for a prospector who operated a mine in the area.^[2] On February 19, 1904, during a collision between two Southern Pacific trains, a carload of dynamite exploded, wrecking everything within an 0.5 miles (0.80 km) radius, including the majority of lives within the town of 45.^[3] The effects are credited to concussion, although officials at the time were surprised by the disaster's magnitude.^[4]

Jackson, Utah
Ghost town
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Coordinates: 41°19′00″N 113°38′34″W
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Box Elder
Time zone	UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-6 (MDT)
GNIS feature ID	1437987[1]

Notes

1. "Jackson, Utah". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 203. ISBN 0-87480-345-4.
3. "Dynamite Wrecks Town" (PDF). The New York Times. February 21, 1904. Retrieved June 29, 2009.
4. "Explosion Destroys Town". Fort Wayne News. February 20, 1904. Archived from the original on January 3, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2022.