Editing Box Elder County, Utah (section)

==History==
[[File:Corinne. Staff of the Daily Reporter. Box Elder County, Utah., 1869 - 1878 - NARA - 517302.tif|thumb|Corinne. Staff of the Daily Reporter. Box Elder County, Utah., 1869 - 1878]]
[[File:Box Elder County Float 1912.jpg|thumb|Box Elder County float, 1912]]
[[Image:boxeldercounty.png|thumb|Box Elder County (details)]]
The county was created by the [[Utah Territory]] legislature on January 5, 1856, with the territory partitioned from [[Weber County, Utah|Weber County]]. Its boundaries were altered in 1862 by adjustments between counties and in 1866 when all its area in the now-existent state of [[Nevada]] (which had gained territorial status in 1861 and statehood in 1864) was formally partitioned. The county boundaries were finally altered in 1880 by adjustments between [[Salt Lake County, Utah|Salt Lake]] and [[Weber County, Utah|Weber]] counties. Its boundary has remained unchanged since 1880.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/UT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |title=&#91;&#91;Newberry Library&#93;&#93;. Individual County Chronologies - Box Elder County UT (accessed March 25, 2019) |access-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306153326/http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/UT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Huchel |first=Frederick M. |title=A history of Box Elder County |date=1999 |publisher=Utah State Historical Society |isbn=978-0-913738-16-0 |series=Utah centennial county history series |location=Salt Lake City|url=http://www.riversimulator.org/Resources/History/UtahCounties/HistoryOfBoxElderCounty1996Huchel.pdf}} Alternate {{ISBN|978-0-913738-09-2}}</ref>

The [[California Trail]] followed Goose Creek from a point just north of the Idaho/Utah border southwest across northwestern Box Elder County to Little Goose Creek in northeastern Elko County, Nevada.<ref>{{cite web|title=California Trail|publisher=Trails West|url=http://emigranttrailswest.org/virtual-tour/california-trail/|access-date=October 24, 2014}}</ref>
The link-up of the [[first transcontinental railroad]] occurred at [[Promontory Summit, Utah]] in 1869.

The [[Spiral Jetty]], an [[Land art|earthwork]] sculpture by [[Robert Smithson]], was built on the north shore of the [[Great Salt Lake]] in Box Elder County in 1970.

On November 19, 2005, sculptor Zaq Landsberg declared his plot to be independent from the United States, creating the [[Republic of Zaqistan]].<ref name="kslsov">{{cite news|url=https://www.ksl.com/?sid=37022657|title=New York man creates 'sovereign nation' in Box Elder County|last=Cabrero|first=Alex|date=October 19, 2015|work=[[KSL-TV]]|access-date=November 25, 2018}}</ref>