Editing Tooele County, Utah (section)

===Modern Tooele===
Mining continued to play an important part in Tooele County into the 20th century, but the county benefited from two major military bases located in the western portion of the county. [[Wendover Air Force Base]], now closed, was the training base of the [[Enola Gay]] crew, which dropped the first [[Nuclear weapon|atomic weapon]] in 1945. The [[Tooele Army Depot]], built in 1942, formerly housed the largest store of [[chemical weapon|chemical]] and [[biological weapon]]s, 45 percent of the nation's, in the United States, at the [[Deseret Chemical Depot]]. Starting August 1996, the store was reduced by destruction in a controversial weapons incinerator, at the [[Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility]]; the last such weapon was destroyed in January 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Christensen|first=Lisa|title=Deseret Chemical Depot finally destroys last chemical weapons|url=http://www.tooeletranscript.com/view/full_story/17231152/article-Deseret-Chemical-Depot-finally-destroys-last-chemical-weapons|work=[[Tooele Transcript-Bulletin]]|access-date=November 5, 2012}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref><ref>[http://www.cma.army.mil/tooele.aspx The U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) - Tooele, UT] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408035407/http://www.cma.army.mil/tooele.aspx |date=April 8, 2014 }}</ref>

Since the 1980s, much of Tooele County's economic prospects have centered around private [[hazardous waste]] disposal facilities. Between 1988 and 1993, hazardous waste landfills and incinerators have been installed at [[Clive, Utah|Clive]] and [[Aragonite, Utah|Aragonite]].<ref name=gr>J. Matthew Shumway and Richard H. Jackson, "Place Making, Hazardous Waste, and the Development of Tooele County, Utah". ''The Geographical Review'', 98 (2008), pp. 433-455.</ref> This, coupled with [[uranium mine]] tailings from [[Salt Lake County]] which were disposed in Tooele County in the 1980s, the presence of the Deseret Chemical Depot, and a high-polluting magnesium facility in [[Rowley, Utah|Rowley]], have contributed to a general perception of Tooele County as a "[[sacrifice zone]]" for unwanted wastes.<ref name=gr/>

News coverage for the county is provided by the ''[[Tooele Transcript-Bulletin]]'' newspaper.

On September 8, 2004, the [[Genesis (spacecraft)|Genesis]] spacecraft crashed into the desert floor of the [[Dugway Proving Ground]] in Tooele County.

The county's western portion is home to the [[Bonneville Salt Flats]], traversed by [[Interstate 80 in Utah|Interstate 80]] and the [[Wendover Cut-off]], the former routing of the [[Victory Highway in Utah|Victory Highway]].