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An unauthorized flagpole was installed on Black Rock in Tooele County

The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands says it is investigating the incident.

Public debate has arisen over the flagpole's future, as the state reviews the matter.

LAKE POINT, Tooele County — Black Rock, a limestone and quartzite rock formation on the edge of the Tooele-Salt Lake counties' border, is one of the first places pioneer settlers explored after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.

It got its name from the Donner Party, which passed by the valley a year before that, and it would also become an unofficial measuring tool of Great Salt Lake water levels, before landing in the National Register of Historic Places in 2021 .

Now, the iconic rock formation is at the center of a

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