59 SF-SL Poverty Point

Location / Airway

Location / Name

UTAH:  Tooele County

59 SF-SL Poverty Point, site No. 59 on the San Francisco-Salt Lake airway

GPS: 40.750015, -112.648235

Transcontinental Airway

Route established September 8, 1920

Pilots Log February 21, 1921
Between

Night Airmail

Flights started on July 1, 1924

Contract Air Mail

CAM #18 San Francisco CA-Chicago IL
San Francisco-Salt Lake City airway
Elko Salt Lake City section

Operator

Boeing Air Transport awarded CAM #18 on January 28, 1927
Route established July 1, 1927

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Observations and Notes

The Poverty Point Arrow is directly adjacent to the parking lot for the Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, approximately ½ mile from I-80. 

The arrow is in good condition.  However it is missing the concrete pad where the generator shed would have been located.  We could not find any evidence though that one existed at this arrow.  The arrow is 44 feet in length.

The pilot would approach the tail of the arrow on a compass heading of 116° (E-SE), and then exit the arrow on a compass heading of 87° (E).
(All measurements and compass headings are approximate).

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