Editing Wendover, Utah (section)

==History==
The town was established in 1908 as a station stop on the [[Western Pacific Railroad]], then under construction.<ref name="Hall2002">{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Shawn|title=Connecting the West: Historic Railroad Stops and Stage Stations of Elko County, Nevada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--jAz-FliKcC&pg=PA196|access-date=December 14, 2010|date=June 2, 2002|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-87417-499-1|page=196}}</ref> The town's name comes from either railroad surveyor Charles Wendover<ref>{{Cite web |title=Utah History Encyclopedia |url=https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/w/WENDOVER.shtml |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=www.uen.org}}</ref> or from "wending over" the desert.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 4, 2007 |first=Christopher |last=Smart |title=Small town rich in history |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=6542893&itype=NGPSID |access-date=2025-02-13 |newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref>

The transcontinental telephone line was completed as workers raised the final pole at Wendover, Utah on June 27, 1914, after construction of {{convert|3,400|mi}} of telephone line. However, the line was not utilized until January 25, 1915, when the [[first transcontinental telephone call]] was made to coincide with the opening of the [[Panama Pacific Exposition]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corp.att.com/history/nethistory/transcontinental.html |title=ATT, ''First Transcontinental Line'' |access-date=2019-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908190923/http://www.corp.att.com/history/nethistory/transcontinental.html |archive-date=2017-09-08 }}</ref>

From 1917 to 1939, a Western Pacific subsidiary known as the [[Deep Creek Railroad]] also operated into Wendover. The Western Pacific became part of the larger [[Union Pacific Railroad]] in 1983.

[[File:Wendover AFB - Hangar.jpg|left|thumb|Hangar of the ''[[Enola Gay]]'' on the former [[Wendover Air Force Base|Wendover Army Air Field]], January 2006]]
During [[World War II]], the nearby [[Wendover Air Force Base|Wendover Army Air Field]] (later known as the Wendover Air Force Base) was a training base for bomber pilots, including the crew of the ''[[Enola Gay]]''. The Enola Gay was stationed here until June 1945.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/mountains-plains-region/enola-gay-hangar.html |title=11 Most Endangered Historic Places: The Manhattan Project's Enola Gay Hangar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217140305/http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/mountains-plains-region/enola-gay-hangar.html |archive-date=17 December 2011 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=PreservationNation.org |publisher=National Trust for Historic Preservation |access-date=6 May 2019}}</ref>

In 2008, the [[Utah Department of Transportation]] completed an interchange at Aria Boulevard on Interstate 80. Investment is also underway to restore the [[Wendover Airport]] (located at the former Wendover Air Force Base)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635190760/US-grant-to-help-Wendover-Airfield.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928191936/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/635190760/US-grant-to-help-Wendover-Airfield.html|archive-date=September 28, 2018|title=U.S. grant to help Wendover Airfield|last=Nielson-Stowell|first=Amelia|date=March 10, 2006|work=Deseret Morning News}}</ref> which is currently managed by Tooele County.

Movements to unite Wendover with West Wendover, which is located across the border in Nevada and allows gambling operations, have taken place, but require the approval of both the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] and the Nevada and Utah legislatures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Article IV|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiv#section3|work=U.S. Constitution|publisher=Cornell University Legal Information Institute|access-date=March 17, 2011}}</ref> The [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] passed a resolution permitting Wendover to leave Utah and join Nevada in 2002, but the bill was stalled in the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] and did not become law.<ref name=slt1>{{cite news|last=Eddington|first=Mark|title=Wendovers' Leaders Will Consider Next Move|newspaper=[[Salt Lake Tribune]]|date=November 23, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/2054/actions?KWICView=false |title=Actions - H.R.2054 - 107th Congress (2001-2002): To give the consent of Congress to an agreement or compact between Utah and Nevada regarding a change in the boundaries of those States, and for other purposes. |website= Congress.gov |date=12 June 2002 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=2020-03-29}}</ref>