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    <periodOfReport>2006-03-13</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000751652</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>QUESTAR CORP</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>STR</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001180568</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>RATTIE KEITH O</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>180 EAST 100 SOUTH, P.O. BOX 45433</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2></rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>SALT LAKE CITY</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>UT</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>84145-0433</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>Pres.&amp; Chief Executive Officer</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

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            </securityTitle>
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                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
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                <value>Common Stock and attached Common Stock Purchase Rights</value>
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                <value>69.15</value>
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                <value>2006-03-13</value>
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                <value></value>
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                    <value>1219.6966</value>
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                <value>2002-08-11</value>
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            <expirationDate>
                <value>2012-02-11</value>
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            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock and attached Common Stock Purchase Rights</value>
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                <value>Stock Option</value>
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                <value>2003-08-11</value>
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                <value>2013-02-11</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock and attached Common Stock Purchase Rights</value>
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                <value>2012-10-24</value>
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                    <value>Common Stock and attached Common Stock Purchase Rights</value>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">As of March 13, 2006, I have 1,208.8938 equivalent shares of stock in Questar's Employee Investment Plan.  The number of equivalent shares will fluctuate as Questar's stock price changes; this fluctuation does not reflect any transactions that should be reported.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">I also receive phantom stock units as a result of my participation in an excess benefit plan.  This total includes 13,963.9524 units in such plan, in addition to units held through my account balance in a deferred compensation plan. I also receive dividends.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Phantom stock units will be converted to cash beginning at retirement; my retirement date is unknown.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">This total includes dividends of .2882 plus shares of 1,219.4084 attributable to my excess benefit plan.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks></remarks>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Abigail L. Jones Attorney in Fact for K. O. Rattie</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2006-03-14</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
