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Jordanelle, Utah

ghost town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ48975963 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jordanelle was a community in northern Wasatch County, Utah, United States.

Description

Jordanelle was located along the former routing of US-40 and US-189, south of the former town of Hailstone and north of Heber City, in the approximate current site of the Jordanelle Dam. Almost all of the former town was submerged in 1995 by the waters of Jordanelle Reservoir, along with Hailstone and Keetley. About the only remains of the former community is an RV park.

Editorial summary

“Jordanelle, Utah” enters the record as ghost town in Wasatch County, Utah, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jordanelle, Utah and ghost can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jordanelle, Utah and ghost.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jordanelle, Utah” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jordanelle, Utah and ghost provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48975963. Authority coordinates are 40.608, -111.411. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jordanelle, Utah”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jordanelle, Utah primary sources, Jordanelle, Utah archive and Jordanelle research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jordanelle, Utah”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jordanelle, Utah” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.