History of Rowley Junction/Timpie, Utah
Taken from the Utah Place Names (Links Added)
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Rowley Junction (Tooele) is forty-four miles west of Salt Lake City on I-80. The settlement had an earlier name of Timpie Juction, "timpie" being Goshute Indian for "rock." The name was changed to Rowley Junction around 1970 when a chemical processing plant was built on the shore of nearby Great Salt Lake.

John W. Van Cott


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