Photograph of Bonneville Speedway — Photograph by James Rice, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Bonneville Speedway is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah in the United States, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records.”
Wikipedia article Bonneville Speedway, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Tooele County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 3 mi. E of Wendover off U.S. 40, Wendover, 84083
When was it listed? December 1975
Category. site
Census division. Dugway-Wendover
National Register reference number. 75001826 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track: 9 past producers, 8 occurrences, 8 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Silver, Copper, Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Brine Test Wells	Chlorine	Past Producer
Silver Island District	Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Antimony, Barium-Barite	Producer	FISSURE VEINS
Bonneville Racetrack Subsurface Brines	Bromine	Producer	1914, 1917
Tetzlaff Peak Subsurface Brines	Bromine	Producer	1914, 1917
Unknown	Copper, Silver	Prospect
Unknown Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Lost Hope Mine	Barium-Barite	Past Producer	Barite
Lost Hope Mine	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Unknown	Silver, Copper	Prospect
Unknown	Silver, Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this property

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendover, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	$4,000	no account filed
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	$500	no account filed
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	-	The Wendover Peak sensor recorded a wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	-	A thunderstorm produced a dry Microburst wind gust of 59 mph (51 kts) at the Wendover Airport.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	-	A dry thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph (53 kts) at the airport in Wendover.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	-	The Port of Entry office at Wendover estimated thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph.
July 1996	Hail	Wendover	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	-	no account filed
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Wendover	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tooele County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001826 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Tooele County	All 29 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.