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Camp W. G. Williams, commonly known as Camp Williams, also known as Army Garrison Camp Williams, is a National Guard training site operated by the Utah National Guard.It is located south of Bluffdale, west of Lehi, and north of Saratoga Springs and Cedar Fort, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south of Salt Lake City, straddling the border between Salt Lake County and Utah County in the western ...
The site was named Camp Williams in 1927 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Charles R. Williams, the chief quartermaster of the post from 1917 until his death in 1926. Camp Williams grew slowly following the First World War, but with the development of the airplane, the first hard-surface runways were constructed in 1935 and 1936. [6] [page needed]
Fort Douglas - A small portion of the fort is still used as the Stephen A. Douglas Armed Forces Reserve Center. Fort Duchesne Fort Thornburgh - Housed the soldiers preventing the Ute people from leaving the nearby Uintah Valley and Uncompahgre/Ouray Reservations .
This list details only current or recently closed facilities; some defunct facilities are found at Category:Former military installations of the United States. A military installation is the basic administrative unit into which the U.S. Department of Defense groups its infrastructure, and is statutorily defined as any “base, camp, post ...
Camp Blanding; Camp Bowie; Camp Curtis Guild; Camp Dawson (West Virginia) Camp Dodge; Camp Edwards; Camp Ethan Allen Training Site; Camp Grafton; Camp Grayling; Camp Gruber; Camp James A. Garfield; Camp Maxey; Camp Perkins; Camp Perry; Camp Rapid; Camp Rilea Heliport; Camp Ripley; Camp San Luis Obispo; Camp Sherman, Ohio; Camp Smith (New York ...
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In 2023, the Utah State Legislature allocated $100 million, via Senate Bill 2, [8] to facilitate the relocation of the reserve center from Fort Douglas to land near the Utah National Guard’s Camp Williams in Bluffdale. The appropriated funds were to be used to acquire property, and for the design and construction of facilities at the new site ...
Bluffdale, named for its geography of bluffs and dales, was first settled in 1848–1849, when the area was originally part of West Jordan.On July 29, 1858, Orrin Porter Rockwell paid five- hundred dollars to Evan M. Green for sixteen acres of land near the Crystal Hot Lakes (adjacent to the present Utah State Prison).