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The Skull Valley Indian Reservation is the Goshute Indian reservation located approximately 45 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. The reservation is comprised of 73.004 km² (28.187 sq mi) of land in east central Tooele County, adjacent to the southwest side of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. A population of 31 persons resided on its territory as of the 2000 census. It is the site of a proposed nuclear waste dump, causing much controversy among some Goshute Native Americans, some of Utah's government officials and many local advocacy groups.
On April 12, 1968, several thousand sheep in Skull Valley were killed by VX gas released in a test from the nearby Dugway Proving Ground, as noted in the Stephen King novel The Stand. Dugway and Skull Valley have also been featured in Andromeda Strain, Outbreak (film) and Species.
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