| 词条 | Lark, Utah |
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| name = Lark | settlement_type = Ghost town | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Utah#USA | pushpin_label_position = right | map_caption = Location of Lark within the State of Utah | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = United States | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Utah | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Salt Lake | established_title = Founded | established_date = 1866 | named_for = A prospector named Lark | extinct_title = Abandoned | extinct_date = 1978 | elevation_footnotes = [1] | elevation_ft = 5541 | elevation_m = 1689 | coordinates = {{coord|40|31|30|N|112|05|47|W|region:US-UT|display=inline,title}} | blank_name = GNIS feature ID | blank_info = 1437617[1] }} Lark is a ghost town located {{convert|4|mi|km}} west of Herriman in the Oquirrh Mountains of southwest Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Lark was the location of several copper mines. HistoryThe discovery of gold in Bingham Canyon in 1863 brought a rush of prospectors, two of whom were named Dalton and Lark. Settlements with these names grew up around the two mining claims, but Dalton was later merged into Lark.[2] The town of Lark was officially established January 3, 1866.[3] The town had enough Latter-day Saint residents by 1918 to be made a ward, but by 1923, the ward was reduced to a branch. It had 234 members in 1930.[4] By 1929, Lark was a company town of the United States Smelting and Refining Company, which expanded the town through the 1940s and 1950s. At its peak, the population exceeded 800. Then the nearby non-copper mines began to close, and the town went into decline. The last silver, zinc, and lead mine closed about 1971. In 1972, Kennecott Copper bought the land, and in 1977, they announced foreclosure. The company wanted the land to dump large quantities of overburden from nearby Bingham Canyon Mine. The population was 591, and Kennecott helped move people and some homes, even preparing a subdivision in nearby Copperton.[2] By 1978, Lark was dismantled.[3] See also{{stack|{{portal|Utah|Mining}}}}
References1. ^1 {{gnis|1437617|Lark}} 2. ^1 {{cite book | last = Carr | first = Stephen L. | title = The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns | edition = 3rd | origyear = June 1972 | year = 1986 | publisher = Western Epics | location = Salt Lake City, Utah | page = 159 | isbn = 0-914740-30-X }} 3. ^1 {{cite book | last = Van Cott | first = John W. | title = Utah Place Names | year = 1990 | publisher = University of Utah Press | location = Salt Lake City, Utah | page = 222 | isbn = 0-87480-345-4 }} 4. ^Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1941) p.414. External links{{commons category-inline|Lark, Utah}}{{Salt Lake County, Utah}} 6 : Company towns in Utah|Ghost towns in Utah|Mining communities in Utah|Populated places established in 1863|Ghost towns in Salt Lake County, Utah|1866 establishments in Utah Territory |
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