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A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula). Most promontories either are formed from a hard ridge of rock that has resisted the erosive forces that have removed the softer rock to the sides of it, or are the high ground that remains between two river valleys where they ...
Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City. Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet (1,494 m) above sea level , it lies to the north of the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake . [ 2 ]
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Promontory Peninsula in 2008. Promontory Point is the promontory or southernmost point of the peninsula formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake in southeastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States. [1] [2] Promontory Peninsula with the Lucin Cutoff crossing the end of the peninsula
It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape. [1] Headlands are characterised by high, breaking waves, rocky shores, intense erosion, and steep sea cliff. Headlands and bays are often found on the same coastline. A bay is flanked by land on three sides, whereas a headland is flanked by water on three sides.
Promontory Point is a ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, [1] that is located about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northeast of the cape with the same name.
No. 119 was assigned to the Union Pacific Railroad's Utah Division, carrying trains between Rawlins, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah, [2] and was stationed in the latter when a call for a replacement engine came from vice-president Thomas C. Durant, to take him to Promontory Ridge, Utah Territory, for the Golden Spike ceremony celebrating the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
The Promontory Mountains of 35 mi (56 km) were bypassed by the First transcontinental railroad in 1869, which came just north of it at Promontory Summit. [5] The replacement 1904 Lucin Cutoff trestle crossed the southern tip of the mountains at Promontory Point, [6] and the trestle was replaced in 1959 by an earthern causeway.