* Stansbury Park

SR-138 passes through the city, heading northwest to intersect with I-80 and east to Stansbury Park.

Stansbury Park is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Tooele County, Utah, United States.

Stansbury Park is located in the northern end of Tooele Valley at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains.

Traveling by Interstate 80, Stansbury Park is 35 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

Stansbury Park was proposed by the original developer ( Terracor ) as a planned community with a lake for sailing and canoeing, an eighteen-hole golf course, clubhouse, swimming pool, and parks.

The parks throughout Stansbury Park include baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard park, and an astronomical observatory.

The outflow water from this lake is piped around the Oquirrh Mountain Range ( east of Stansbury Park ) to the Kennecott Company's copper mine refinery operation ( the runoff water from the lake enters a large pipe NW of the Benson Grist Mill for transport to the Kennecott operation ).

The 18-hole public golf course runs through the center of Stansbury Park.

In the winter time, Stansbury Park is often the only course open in the greater Salt Lake City area.

The Harmon's astronomical observatory, the Stansbury Park Observing Complex, is at the north end near the skateboard park.

Stansbury Park has three public-education schools: two elementary schools ( K through 6 < sup > th </ sup > grades ) and one high school.

As of 2009 there were five church buildings in Stansbury Park, all units of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ).

An LDS building northwest of the Benson Grist Mill was placed into service in early 2009 ; that area was not part of the original Stansbury Park proposal, but since its water and sewer are provided by the Stansbury Park Improvement District, it is now considered an integral part of the development.

Stansbury Park receives mail service from the Tooele ( Utah ) Post Office, ZIP 84074.

Drinking water for Stansbury Park comes from deep wells about 2 miles southeast of the park, east of Utah State Route 36 ).

These services are administered by the Stansbury Park Improvement District.

The golf course, swimming pool, and common areas within Stansbury Park were originally administered by two separate service districts ( Stansbury Greenbelt Service Area # 1 and SGSA # 2 ), but since August 1992 have been administered by a combined district, the Stansbury Service Agency, whose volunteer, unpaid board members are elected by the population.

Woodland Park, near the southeast end of Stansbury Park, contains trees which existed before the development started.

Stansbury, Carrington, and Hat Islands are extensions of the Stansbury mountain range, and Strongs Knob is an extension of the Lakeside Mountains which run along the lake's western shore.

The lake is deepest in the area between these island chains, measured by Howard Stansbury in 1850 at about 35 feet ( 10. 7 meters ) deep, and an average depth of 13 feet ( four meters ).

To the north is Stansbury Island, and on the east are the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake and on the west side the Stansbury Mountains.

Benson Grist Mill, north of Stansbury Park, is a restoration of an actual nineteenth-century water-powered ( powered by waterflow from The Mill Pond ) wheat-grinding mill built on that site, and has grown into a recreational and historical interest area.

Stansbury Lake, southwest of The Mill Pond, is a manmade lake.

Stansbury Park is located on State Route 36 about north of Tooele.

Still another explanation for the word Micmac suggested by Stansbury Hagar in " Micmac Magic and Medicine " is that the word megumawaach is from megumoowesoo, the name of the Micmacs ' legendary master magicians, from whom the earliest Micmac wizards are said to have received their power.

His mother, Helene Stanton ( née Eleanor Mae Stansbury ; born 1925 ), is a retired singer and actress who came from a " highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia ".

Port Giles is the newest port on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, between Stansbury and Edithburgh.

At 2: 30 a. m. on 23 August, Stansbury received a message from Winder, announcing that he had withdrawn across the Eastern Branch and that he intended to fire the lower bridge.

* 1839-1843-Fort Stansbury was located on the Wakulla River from St. Marks.

The original addressing scheme for Stansbury Park was to divide the area into neighborhoods, each with a name and with the houses therein to be numbered from 1 to XXX.

Subsequently Torrey published reports on the plants that were collected by John C. Frémont in the expedition to the Rocky Mountains ( 1845 ), those gathered by Major William H. Emory on his reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California ( 1848 ), the specimens secured by Captain Howard Stansbury on his expedition to the Great Salt Lake of Utah ( 1852 ), the plants collected by John C. Frémont in California ( 1853 ), those brought back from the Red River of Louisiana by Captain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1853 ), and the botany of Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves's expedition to the Zuni and Colorado Rivers ( 1854 ), also memoirs on the botany of the various expeditions for the purpose of determining the most practicable route for a Pacific Railroad ( 1855-1860 ).

His publications include History of an Expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1775, under Major-General Braddock, edited from Original Manuscripts, which was commended by George Grote, the historian, and was described by Washington Irving as “ ably edited, with an admirable introductory memoir ” ( Philadelphia, 1855 ); The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution ( 1857 ); The Journal of the General Meeting of the Cincinnati ( 1858 ); Loyal Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Dr. Jonathan Odell, with Introduction and Notes ( Albany, 1860 ); Life and Career of Maj. John André ( Boston, 1861 ); and Les États Confédérés et de l ' esclavage ( The Confederacy and Slavery ; Paris, 1864 ).

They also developed an extensive irrigation system to bring water from the Stansbury Mountains, allowing fields, lawns, and flowerbeds to be watered in the middle of the desert.

On 20 August, Winder had ordered Brigadier General Tobias Stansbury to move from Baltimore to Bladensburg and "... take the best position in advance of Bladensburg ... and should he be attacked, to resist as long as possible.

Jackie Curtis stated that Candy adopted the name from a well-known Off-Off Broadway actress named Hope Stansbury, with whom she lived for a few months in an apartment behind the Caffe Cino so that she could study her.

Captain Howard Stansbury, U. S. Army Topographical Engineer, was exploring a route back from the Great Salt Lake over Laramie Plains in the summer of 1849 when his party encountered stampeding buffalo near the present city of Laramie, which was taken to be a sign of Indian hunters.

At the end of his exploration, Stansbury recommended the route from Fort Bridger in western Wyoming through Laramie Plains to the forks of the Platte ( just west of modern North Platte, Nebraska ), which later became part of the Overland Trail and Overland Stage Line.

* Stansbury Peninsula, becomes an island when waters are high, on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake

The Bonneville Salt Flats lie to the west, and the Oquirrh and Stansbury Mountains rise to the south.

Captain Howard Stansbury of the United States Army's Corp of Topographical Engineers was ordered to map, survey, and explore Utah and Salt Lake Valleys.

In the Spring of 1849 Gunnison was assigned as second in command of the Howard Stansbury Expedition to explore and survey the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.