Any idea what these two areas are? Military, fracking ?

Hi all,

interested to find out what these two locations are?

40°08'45.57" N 109°47'53.74" W

and

40°17'42.22" N 109°52'43.23" W

Cheers

Welcome to the forum, johntadams!

The first location shows oil wells with their pumps. And the second - I don't know, may be abandoned campsite ?

Hi John!

Your first coordinates are locating Monument Butte - Newfield Exploration oil field:

(check desktop GoogleEarth / Layers / Gallery / GEC @ >>40.042840, -110.076348<<)



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2nd location is situated within Ute Indian tribe lands next to a pre-school and a bus station on the opposite banks of the water reservoir, where a campground can be find.
I have tried to dig up some infos, but no useful results. 

However the settlement, "Fort Duchesne was originally a fort, established by the United States Army in 1886 and closed in 1912." (wikipedia), I do not think this was a military facility.
These are abandoned, but not too old structures - probably a failed project of a campground, bus station, recreational- or residental area... (?) ...


Good spotting!

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Mar 3, 2021 8:34:01 GMT willi1 said:

Welcome to the forum, johntadams!

The first location shows oil wells with their pumps. And the second - I don't know, may be abandoned campsite ?

Hey, it is unfair! - I have started to type my reply long before you, still it seems I was been late clicking "Create Post" button... ) :


Glad we are on the same point of view however! ( ; 

The 2nd place, in town, beside the reservoir ,  are  picnic or gathering sites.. maybe camp sites .


So in the windows program you can easily use "go back" to 1997, and  see that  3 leaf clover sites had structures in each lobe. 

The square site to the north , beside the road, is the entry to the Ute land area there. It  had different hex  shape structures, that was a   motel site for the tribe to operate,use.

 see    www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/sets/72157629334711981/comments/


they've demolished the model and and built what   looks like a public rest, information area


 Their website shows a  plan to build camp grounds on the west side , the other side, of the reservoir.
but well, its free money ... not entrepreneurial.