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Tooele is a city in and the county seat of Tooele County, Utah, about 40 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, known for Tooele Army Depot and for its views of the Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake.

The 2020 census counted 35,742 residents in Tooele, up from 31,605 in 2010, living in 11,319 households.

The Tooele Valley was the traditional territory of the Tooele Valley Goshute, a band of the Goshute Shoshone, and the Danger Cave site shows people were present in the area by 9000 BP, or about 7000 BC.

Three families settled on a small stream south of present-day Tooele in September 1849, and Tooele City Corporation was organized in 1853; the city was incorporated on June 19, 1853.

Tooele is named for a Goshute chief, Tuuwɨɨta, the Shoshoni word for "black bear."

In the nineteenth century Tooele was primarily an agricultural community, with about 1,200 residents by 1900.

In 1904 the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad built a line through the city, and in 1909 the International Smelting and Refining Company built a smelter east of the city in Carr Fork and Pine Canyon.

When World War II began, the federal government obtained 25,000 acres in the southwestern part of the Tooele Valley to establish an ordnance depot, now the Tooele Army Depot.

In 1993 the depot's scope was reduced and about 1,700 acres, including many buildings, were annexed to Tooele City.

Tooele is home to one of Utah State University's nine regional campuses and to the Deseret Peak Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.