| City of Salt Lake City | | Downtown Salt Lake City | | Nickname: Crossroads of the West, SLC | | Location of Salt Lake City in Salt Lake County, Utah | | Coordinates: 40°45′0″N 111°53′0″W / 40.75, -111.88333 | | Country | United States of America | | State | Utah | | County | Salt Lake | | Government | | - Mayor | Rocky Anderson--Ralph Becker, the Mayor Elect, will take office in January 2008. | | Area | | - City | 110.4 sq mi (285.9 km²) | | - Land | 109.1 sq mi (282.5 km²) | | - Water | 1.3 sq mi (3.3 km²) | | Elevation | 4,226 ft (1,288 m) | | Population (2000) | | - City | 178,858 | | - Density | 1,666.1/sq mi (643.3/km²) | | - Metro | 1,018,826 | | Time zone | Mountain (UTC-7) | | - Summer (DST) | Mountain (UTC-6) | | Area code(s) | 801/385 | | FIPS code | 49-67000GR2 | | GNIS feature ID | 1454997GR3 | | Website: http://www.slcgov.com | Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. It was originally known as Great Salt Lake City. Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Salt Lake City, in honor of the city in Utah which has served successively as the capital of the Provisional State of Deseret, the Territory of Utah, and the 45th state. ...
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Ross C. Rocky Anderson (born September 9, 1951) is the current mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
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Salt Lake City has a population of 178,858 as of 2006.[1] The Salt Lake City metropolitan area spans Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties, and has a total estimated population of 1,018,826. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban area known as the Wasatch Front, and until 2003 the Ogden-Clearfield metro area within it was considered part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.[2] The total estimated population of the Wasatch Front is approximately 2,150,000. Summit County is a county located in the state of Utah, occupying a rugged and mountainous area. ...
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The city was founded in 1847 by a group of Mormon pioneers led by their prophet, Brigham Young, who fled hostility and violence in the midwest. The headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the L.D.S. or Mormon Church) is located in Salt Lake City. A statue commemorating the Mormon pioneers The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of...
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Mining booms and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, and the city became nicknamed the Crossroads of the West. In the 21st century the city has developed a strong outdoor recreation tourism industry (skiing and biking), become the industrial banking center of the U.S,[3] and served as host to the 2002 Winter Olympics. This article is about mineral extractions. ...
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Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelled in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. However, these tribes dwelt only on a temporary basis near streams emptying from Canyons into the Salt Lake Valley. The first Caucasian in the Salt Lake area is believed to be the explorer Jim Bridger in 1825, although other Caucasians had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley. U.S. Army officer John C. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845.[4] The Donner party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. Salt Lake City Temple under construction // Prehistory Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes. ...
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The Utes (; yoots) are an ethnically related group of American Indians now living primarily in Utah and Colorado. ...
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Jim Bridger Jim Bridger (right) is honored along with Pony Express founder Alexander Majors (left) and Kansas City founder John Calvin McCoy at Pioneer Square in Westport in Kansas City. ...
John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. ...
The Donner Party Memorial at Donner Memorial State Park. ...
 Panorama from South Temple Street taken in 1912 The first Europeans to settle in the valley were the Latter-day Saints on July 24, 1847. They had traveled beyond the boundaries of the United States seeking an isolated area to practice their religion, away from the hostility they had faced in the East. Upon arrival, President of the Church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, "this is the right place," later abbreviated to simply "this is the place," after reportedly seeing the area in a vision. They found the large valley empty of any human settlement. Download high resolution version (1538x377, 193 KB)Panoramic photo of Temple Square taken in 1912. ...
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Only four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the site for the Salt Lake Temple, intended to be the third temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to replace the abandoned Kirtland Temple in Ohio and Nauvoo Temple in Illinois. The Salt Lake Temple is the largest (of more than 120) and best-known temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...
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Constructed on Temple Square, in the center of the city, the temple took 40 years to complete, being started in 1853 and dedicated on April 6, 1893. These delays meant that temples in St. George, Logan and Manti were completed before the Salt Lake Temple [5] The temple has become iconic of the city and is the centerpiece of the city (in fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the reference point for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley). This photo of Temple Square, circa 1897, shows that the plot housed the tallest buildings in Salt Lake City at the time, namely the Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall. ...
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The Mormon pioneers organized a new state called Deseret and petitioned for its recognition in 1849. The United States Congress rebuffed the settlers in 1850 and established the Utah Territory, vastly reducing its size. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital in 1858, and the name was subsequently abbreviated to Salt Lake City. The city's population swelled with an influx of religious converts, making it one of the most populous cities in the American Old West. Download high resolution version (1494x365, 193 KB)Panoramic photo of Salt Lake City downtown taken in 1913. ...
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A statue commemorating the Mormon pioneers The Mormon Pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the State of Utah. ...
The boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret (orange) as proposed in 1849. ...
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Disputes with the federal government ensued over the widespread Mormon practice of polygamy. A climax occurred in 1857 when President James Buchanan declared the area in rebellion after Brigham Young refused to step down as governor, beginning the Utah War. A division of the United States Army, commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston, later a general in the army of the Confederate States of America, marched through the city and found that it had been evacuated. This division set up Camp Floyd approximately 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the city. Another military installation, Fort Douglas, was established in 1862 to maintain Union allegiance during the American Civil War. Many area leaders were incarcerated at the territorial prison in Sugar House in the 1880s for violation of anti-polygamy laws. The LDS Church abandoned polygamy in 1890, releasing "The Manifesto," which officially renounced the practice in the church. This paved the way for statehood in 1896, when Salt Lake City became the state capital. Polygamy has been a feature of human culture since earliest history. ...
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Combatants United States Mormon settlers Commanders Albert Sidney Johnston Brigham Young John D. Lee Lot Smith Strength Unknown Unknown Casualties Unknown Unknown The Utah War was a dispute between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the United States federal government. ...
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Obelisk at 2100 South 1100 East in Sugar House Sugar House (also sometimes seen as Sugarhouse) is one of Salt Lake City, Utahs oldest neighborhoods. ...
The 1890 Manifesto, sometimes simply called The Manifesto, was a historical statement which officially renounced the practice of polygamy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church; see also Mormon). Signed on by LDS President Wilford Woodruff in September of 1890, the Manifesto was a...
The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 at Promontory Summit on the north side of the Great Salt Lake. A railroad was connected to the city from the Transcontinental Railroad in 1870, making travel less burdensome. Mass migration of different groups followed. They found economic opportunities in the booming mining industries. These groups constructed the Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral in 1905 and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine in 1909. This time period also saw the creation of Salt Lake City's now defunct Red-light district that employed 300 courtesans at its height before being closed down in 1911.[6] This article refers to a railroad built in the United States between Omaha and Sacramento completed in 1869. ...
Promontory is a location in Box Elder County, Utah, centered approximately at 41°3707N, 112°3251W, with an elevation of 1494 meters (4902 feet) above sea level. ...
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an extensive streetcar system was constructed throughout the city with the first streetcar running in 1872 and electrification of the system in 1889. As in the rest of the country, the automobile usurped the streetcar and the last trolley ran in 1945. Rail transit was re-introduced when TRAX, a light rail system, opened in 1999.[7] TRAX Sandy train at the Gallivan Plaza stop in Downtown Salt Lake City TRAX is a two-line light rail system in Utahs Salt Lake Valley, serving Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, Murray, Midvale and Sandy. ...
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The city's population began to stagnate during the 20th century as population growth shifted to suburban areas north and south of the city. Few of these areas were annexed to the city, while nearby towns incorporated and expanded themselves. As a result, the population of the surrounding metropolitan area greatly outnumbers that of Salt Lake City. A major concern of recent government officials has been combating inner-city commercial decay. The city lost population from the 1960s through the 1980s, but experienced some recovery in the 1990s. Presently, the city is losing population again (though that of the metro area continues to grow), having lost an estimated 2 percent of its population since the year 2000.[8] “Suburbia†redirects here. ...
The city has experienced significant demographic shifts in recent years.[9] Hispanics now account for approximately 19% of residents and the city has a large gay community.[10] There is also a large Pacific Islander population, mainly made up of Samoans and Tongans; they compose roughly 1% of the population of the Salt Lake Valley area.[11] Hispanic flag, not widely used. ...
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Salt Lake City was selected to host the 2002 Winter Olympics in 1995. The games were plagued with controversy. A bid scandal surfaced in 1998 alleging that bribes had been offered to secure the city for the 2000 games location. During the games, other scandals erupted over contested judging scores and illegal drug use. Despite the controversies, the games were heralded as a financial success, being one of the few in recent history to profit. In preparation major construction projects were initiated. Local freeways were expanded and repaired, and a light rail system was constructed. Olympic venues are now used for local, national, and international sporting events and Olympic athlete training.[12] Tourism has increased since the Olympic games,[13] but business did not pick up immediately following them.[14] The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, and with the theme slogan Light The Fire Within, were celebrated in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. ...
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Salt Lake City hosted the 16th Winter Deaflympic games in 2007, taking place in the venues in Salt Lake City and Park City,[15] and Rotary International has designated the city as the site of their 2007 convention, which will be the largest single gathering since the 2002 Winter Olympics.[16] The U.S. Volleyball Association convention in 2005 drew 39,500 attendees. Park City, Utah Main Street during a parade Looking down Main Street Park City is a city located in Summit County, Utah, United States. ...
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The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games, and with the theme slogan Light The Fire Within, were celebrated in 2002 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. ...
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 Salt Lake City from space. Salt Lake City is located at 40°45′N, 111°53′W. The total area is 110.4 square miles (285.9 km²) and has an average elevation of 4,327 feet (1,320 m) above sea level. The lowest point within the boundaries of the city is 4,210 feet near the Jordan River and the Great Salt Lake, and the highest is Grandview Peak, at 9,410 foot (2,868 m).[17] Photo taken by NASA of Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
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The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest, and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges, on the eastern and western border respectively. Its encircling mountains contain many narrow glacially and volcanically carved canyons, among them City Creek, Emigration, Millcreek, and Parley's border Salt Lake proper. Salt Lake Valley from space. ...
City Creek is a small but historically important mountain stream that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake. ...
Emigration Canyon is a canyon east of Salt Lake City, Utah in the Wasatch Range. ...
Parleys Canyon is a canyon located in the U.S. state of Utah. ...
The Great Salt Lake is separated from Salt Lake City by extensive marshlands and mudflats. The metabolic activities of bacteria in Willard Bay (the freshwater portion of the lake) results in a phenomenon known as "lake stink", a scent reminiscent of foul poultry eggs, two to three times per year for a few hours.[18] The Jordan River flows through the city and is a drainage of Utah Lake that empties into the Great Salt Lake. Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere,[1] the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world,[2] and the 33rd largest lake on Earth. ...
Utah Lake and Utah Valley Utah Lake is Utahs , and it is one of the largest naturally occurring fresh-water lakes in the western United States. ...
The highest mountaintop visible from Salt Lake City is Twin Peaks, which reaches 11,489 feet (3502 m).[19] Twin Peaks is located southeast of Salt Lake in the Wasatch Range. The Wasatch Fault is found along the western base of the Wasatch and is considered overdue for an earthquake as large as 7.5. Catastrophic damage is predicted in the event of an earthquake with major damage resulting from the liquefaction of the clay- and sand-based soil and the possible permanent flooding of portions of the city by the Great Salt Lake.[20] There are actually two well-known Twin Peaks of the Wasatch Front in Utah. ...
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The Wasatch Fault. ...
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The second-highest mountain range are the Oquirrhs, reaching a maximum height of 10,620 feet (3,237 m) at Flat Top. The Traverse Mountains to the south extend to 6,000 feet (1,830 m), nearly connecting the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains. The mountains near Salt Lake City are easily visible from the city and have sharp vertical relief caused by massive ancient earthquakes, with a maximum difference of 7,099 feet (2164 m) being achieved with the rise of Twin Peaks from the Salt Lake Valley floor.[19] Oquirrh Mountains forming western border of the Salt Lake Valley The Oquirrh Mountains are a mountain range that run north-south for approximately 30 miles (50 km) to form the west side of Utahs Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. ...
The Traverse Mountains, an anomalous, geologically complex, east-trending range that separates Salt Lake Valley and Utah Valley in the U.S. State of Utah. ...
The Salt Lake Valley floor is the ancient lakebed of Lake Bonneville which existed at the end of the last Ice Age. Several Lake Bonneville shorelines can be distinctly seen on the foothills or benches of nearby mountains . A butte in the Great Salt Lake Desert Lake Bonneville was a prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of North Americas Great Basin region. ...
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 Plat of Salt Lake City, circa 1870s The city, as well as the county, is laid out on a grid plan;[21] Most major streets run very nearly north-south and east-west. There is about a fourteen to fifteen minute of arc variation of the grid from true north.[citation needed] The grid's origin is the southeast corner of Temple Square, the block containing the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Addresses are coordinates within the system (similarly to latitude and longitude). One hundred units are equal to 1/8th of a mile (200 m), the length of blocks in downtown Salt Lake City.[citation needed] The streets are relatively wide, at the direction of Brigham Young, who wanted them wide enough that a wagon team could turn around without "resorting to profanity." [22] These wide streets and grid pattern were copied in other Mormon towns of the pioneer era throughout the West. Download high resolution version (645x1076, 718 KB) This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ...
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This photo of Temple Square, circa 1897, shows that the plot housed the tallest buildings in Salt Lake City at the time, namely the Salt Lake Temple, Tabernacle and Assembly Hall. ...
The Salt Lake Temple is the largest (of more than 120) and best-known temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...
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Though confusing to new arrivals and visitors, the grid system actually makes it easier to navigate. For instance, take the address "7289 S 1750 West" -- this is parsed in the same way as other North American addresses, with the building number (7289 South) followed by the street name (1750 West). To go from there to 105 W 5600 South, you would go north and east.
Some streets have names, often added to the numbers assigned on the grid system. Some of these are for convenience (100 East is more commonly known as State Street), or to commemorate a major point of interest (Ensign Vista is near Ensign Peak) or a school (Bengal Way is named after the sports teams of a school which is on that street). The western portion of 300 South was named "Adam Galvez Street" in honor of a local Marine corporal who was killed in Iraq, and can be called by either name, as are streets named after Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and César Chávez. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake...
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There is also an area, on the hills north and east of Temple Square, known as "The Avenues," where north-south streets are given letters of the alphabet, and east-west streets are numbered in 2.5 acre (10,100 m²) blocks, closer than the rest of the Valley.
To make matters more confusing, several major streets change alignment and take a new name. One example is 3300 South. The major roadway jogs south at about 1300 West, to become 3500 South. These exceptions and deviations become more common as one moves away from the city center, and mirrors the waning influence of the Church on the city's layout as time went by and the city grew.
Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, planned the layout in the "Plat of the City of Zion" (intended as a template for Mormon towns wherever they might be built). In his plan the city was to be developed into 135 10-acre lots. However, the blocks in Salt Lake City became irregular during the late 19th century when the LDS Church lost authority over growth and before the adoption of zoning ordinances in the 1920s. The original 10-acre blocks allowed for large garden plots, and many were supplied with irrigation water from ditches that ran approximately where modern curbs and gutters would be laid. The original water supply was from City Creek. Subsequent development of water resources was from successively more southern streams flowing from the mountains to the east of the city. Some of the old irrigation ditches are still visible in the eastern suburbs, or are still marked on maps, years after they were gone. Joseph Smith redirects here. ...
The original plat of the City of Zion (Independence, Missouri). ...
City Creek is a small but historically important mountain steam that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake. ...
[edit] Neighborhoods - See also: Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City, Utah - Neighborhoods and areas
 Map of modern Salt Lake City and its suburbs. Salt Lake City has many informal neighborhoods. The eastern portion of the city has higher property values than its western counterpart. This is a result of the railroad being built in the western half as well as scenic views from inclined grounds in the eastern portion. Housing is more affordable on the west side, which results in demographic differences. Interstate 15 was also built in a north-south line, further dividing east and west sides of the city. Salt Lake City, Utah is the most ethnically, politically, and religiously diverse city in the state of Utah. ...
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The west side of the city has historically been a working-class neighborhood, but recently the more affordable nature of the area has enticed many professionals to the neighborhood. For example, the small, increasingly trendy Marmalade District on the west side of Capitol Hill, once considered seedy as few as 5–10 years ago, was heavily gentrified and is now thought of as an eclectic and desirable location. During the 1980s, gang activity was also centered in the western neighborhoods of Rose Park, Poplar Grove, and Glendale. View of the Utah State Capitol building looking south down State Street. ...
Rose Park is a neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
Glendale is a neighborhood on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
Sugar House, which is in the near southeast portions of Salt Lake City, has been somewhat gentrified, but does contain some poorer areas. Other parts of Salt Lake City have no real neighborhood name or designator, such as areas south of 1300 South, East of I-15 and west of Sugarhouse. This area has been traditionally associated with the lower middle class. Sugar House area Obelisk at 2100 South 1100 East in Sugar House Sugar House (also sometimes seen as Sugarhouse) is one of Salt Lake City, Utahs oldest neighborhoods. ...
Just northeast of Downtown is The Avenues, a neighborhood outside of the regular grid system on much smaller blocks. This area is a Hisorical District that is nearly entirely residential, and contains many historical Victorian era homes. The Avenues are situated on the upward-sloping bench in the foothills of the Wasatch Range, with the earlier built homes in the lower elevation. The Avenues, along with Federal Heights, just to the east and north of the University of Utah, and the East Bench, south of the University, contain gated communities, large, multi-million dollar houses, and fantastic views of the valley. Many consider this some of the most desirable real estate in the valley. Map of the Avenues. ...
For the county, see Wasatch County, Utah. ...
Federal Heights is a neighborhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. ...
The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. ...
The East Bench of Salt Lake City, Utah is a relatively affluent, and primarily residential, section of Salt Lake City that lies at the base of the Wasatch Range and extends west to approximately 1300 East. ...
[edit] Climate -
 The flood of City Creek in 1983 occurred from snowmelt after record snow fell in nearby mountains the previous winter. The climate of Salt Lake City is characterized as a semi-arid steppe climate (Köppen Bsk), with four distinct seasons. Both summer and winter are long, with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters, and with spring and fall serving as brief but comfortable transition periods. The city receives 16.50 in (419 mm) of precipitation annually.[24] Spring is the wettest season, and another "rainy season" occurs in fall. Snow occurs on average from November 6 to April 18, producing a total average of 62.7 in (159 cm),[25] while the city's watersheds in nearby mountains accumulate averages as high as 500 in (1,270 cm). The period without freezing temperatures usually lasts an average of 167 days, from April 30 to October 15.[26] Flood of City Creek, 1983. ...
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The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita-Pearson scale, rates a tornados intensity by the damage it inflicts on human-built structures and sometimes on vegetation. ...
Avenues neighborhood damage The Salt Lake City Tornado was a very rare tornado that occurred in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 11, 1999, during an unusually strong summer monsoon season. ...
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City Creek is a small but historically important mountain steam that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake. ...
Semi-arid generally describes regions that receive low annual rainfall (25 to 50 cm /10 to 20 in) and generally have scrub or grass vegetation. ...
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A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (blue outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (green lines) of a contiguous area. ...
In physics and chemistry, freezing is the process whereby a liquid turns to a solid. ...
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During the winter months cold fronts typically originate in the Gulf of Alaska and move southeastward into the area. The nearby Great Salt Lake produces lake-effect snow approximately 6 to 8 times per year, some of which can drop excessive snowfalls. The lake-effect also contributes to some rain storms, and it is estimated that about 10% of the annual precipitation in the city can be attributed to the lake effect.[27] During mid-winter, strong areas of high pressure often situate themselves over the Great Basin, leading to strong temperature inversions. This causes air stagnation and thick smog in the valley for several days to weeks at a time and can result in the worst air-pollution levels in the U.S. reducing air quality to unhealthy levels.[28][29] The city has an average of three days annually with low temperatures below 0 °F, with an all-time record low temperature of -30 °F (-34 °C), which occurred on February 9, 1933.[30] The Gulf of Alaska is an arm of the Pacific Ocean defined by the curve of the southern coast of Alaska, stretching from the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island in the west to the Alexander Archipelago in the east, where Glacier Bay and the Inside Passage are found. ...
Lake-effect precipitation coming off Lake Erie, as seen by NEXRAD radar. ...
Drainage map showing the Great Basin in orange Various Definitions of the Great Basin (NPS) The Great Basin is a large, arid region of the western United States. ...
Smoke rising in Lochcarron is stopped by an overlying layer of warmer air. ...
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In the spring, most of the storms originate in the Pacific Ocean from the Pineapple Express, bringing in the most moisture of the entire year. Larger and cooler storms in the spring can lead to heavy overnight snowfall. Measurable snow has occurred as late as May 18.[31] This article is about the tropical jet stream. ...
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The summers of the city are marked by hot weather and are mostly dry. The monsoon rises from the Gulf of California from approximately mid-July into September, producing localized severe afternoon thunderstorms. Due to the low daytime humidity, virga, lightning, and microbursts can lead to wildfire problems. During active monsoon periods, widespread thunderstorms carrying excessive precipitation are common. High temperatures of at least 100 °F (38 °C) occur on average five times a year, but always on days with low humidity. The record high temperature is 107 °F (42 °C), which occurred first on July 26, 1960 and again on July 13, 2002.[32] For other uses, see Monsoon (disambiguation). ...
The Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or, much less frequently, Golfo de California) is a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. ...
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Nimbostratus virga In meteorology, virga is precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground. ...
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A photograph of the surface curl soon after an intense microburst impacted the surface A microburst is a very localized column of sinking air, producing damaging divergent and straight-line winds at the surface that are similar to but distinguishable from tornadoes which generally have convergent damage. ...
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During October, the Pacific Ocean once again becomes active, bringing in more precipitation, occasionally in the form of the remnants of tropical cyclones. The remnants of Hurricane Olivia helped bring the record monthly precipitation of 7.04 in (179 mm) in September 1982.[33][34] The first measurable snowfall has occurred as early as September 17. Cyclone Catarina, a rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone viewed from the International Space Station on March 26, 2004 Hurricane and Typhoon redirect here. ...
Pacific Hurricane Seasons 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 The 1982 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1982 in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1982 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1982. ...
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| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | | Record Daily High | °F (°C) | 63 (17) | 69 (21) | 78 (26) | 89 (32) | 99 (37) | 104 (40) | 107 (42) | 106 (41) | 100 (38) | 89 (32) | 75 (24) | 69 (21) | | Average Daily High | °F (°C) | 37 (3) | 43 (6) | 53 (12) | 61 (16) | 71 (22) | 82 (28) | 91 (33) | 89 (32) | 78 (26) | 64 (18) | 49 (9) | 38 (3) | | Average Daily Low | °F (°C) | 21 (-6) | 26 (-3) | 33 (1) | 39 (4) | 47 (8) | 56 (13) | 63 (17) | 62 (17) | 52 (11) | 41 (5) | 30 (-1) | 22 (-6) | | Record Daily Low | °F (°C) | -22 (-30) | -30 (-34) | 2 (-17) | 14 (-10) | 25 (-4) | 35 (2) | 40 (4) | 37 (3) | 27 (-3) | 16 (-9) | -14 (-26) | -21 (-29) | | Data is for Salt Lake International Airport |
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| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | | Record Precipitation | in. | 3.23 | 4.89 | 3.97 | 4.90 | 4.76 | 3.84 | 2.57 | 3.66 | 7.04 | 3.91 | 3.34 | 4.37 | | Average Precipitation | in. | 1.37 | 1.33 | 1.91 | 2.02 | 2.09 | 0.77 | 0.72 | 0.76 | 1.33 | 1.57 | 1.40 | 1.23 | | Average Snowfall | in. | 13.6 | 9.9 | 9.1 | 4.9 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 7.0 | 12.0 | | Record Snowfall | in. | 50.3 | 32.1 | 41.9 | 26.4 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 20.4 | 33.3 | 35.2 | | Data is for Salt Lake International Airport |
[edit] Demographics As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 181,743 people (up from 159,936 in 1990), 71,461 households, and 39,803 families residing in the city. This amounts to 8.1% of Utah's population, 20.2% of Salt Lake County's population, and 13.6% of the Salt Lake metropolitan population. Salt Lake City proper covers 14.2% of Salt Lake County. Salt Lake City is more densely populated than the surrounding metro area with a population density of 643.3/km² (1,666.1/mi²). There are 77,054 housing units at an average density of 272.7/km² (706.4/mi²). This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
The United States Census Bureau uses the federal governments definitions of race when performing a census. ...
Hispanics in the United States, or Hispanic Americans, are American citizens or residents of Hispanic ethnicity who identify themselves as having Hispanic Cultural heritage. ...
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This article is about the U.S. state. ...
Salt Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ...
The Salt Lake City-Ogden metropolitan area, which included Salt Lake, Davis, and Weber counties, had a population of 1,333,914 in 2000, a 24.4% increase over the 1990 figure of 1,072,227. Since the 2000 Census, the Census Bureau has added Summit and Tooele counties to the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, but removed Davis and Weber counties and designated them as the separate Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area. Together with the Provo-Orem metropolitan area, which lies to the south, a roughly continuous urban corridor along the Wasatch Front is formed, which has a combined population of well over 2 million. Ogden sign over Washington Boulevard at the Ogden River; toward downtown Ogden is the county seat of Weber County,GR6 Utah, United States. ...
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Salt Lake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ...
Davis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ...
Weber County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a stretch of the Wasatch Front, part of the eastern shores of Great Salt Lake, and much of the rugged Wasatch Mountains. ...
2000 US Census logo The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13. ...
The U.S. Census is mandated by the United States Constitution. ...
Summit County is a county located in the state of Utah, occupying a rugged and mountainous area. ...
Tooele County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. ...
Ogden sign over Washington Boulevard at the Ogden River; toward downtown Ogden is the county seat of Weber County,GR6 Utah, United States. ...
Clearfield is a city located in Davis County, Utah. ...
Provo is a city in Utah and the county seat of Utah County, located about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. ...
Orem is an incorporated city in the north-central part of the state of Utah in Utah County. ...
The Wasatch Front is an urban area in the U.S. state of Utah. ...
There are 71,461 households, out of which 27.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.1% are married couples living together, 10.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 44.3% are nonfamilies. Of the 71,461 households, 3,904 were reported to be unmarried partner households: 3,047 heterosexual, 458 same-sex male, and 399 same-sex female. 33.2% of all households are made up of individuals, and 9.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.48, and the average family size is 3.24. Marriage is an interpersonal relationship with governmental, social, or religious recognition, usually intimate and sexual, and often created as a contract, or through civil process. ...
In the city the population is spread out with:
- 23.6% under the age of 18
- 15.2% from 18 to 24
- 33.4% from 25 to 44
- 16.7% from 45 to 64
- 11.0% who are 65 years of age or older
The median age is 30 years. For every 100 females there are 102.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.2 males. The median income for a household in the city is $36,944, and the median income for a family is $45,140. Males have a median income of $31,511 versus $26,403 for females. The per capita income for the city is $20,752. 15.3% of the population and 10.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 18.7% of those under the age of 18 and 8.5% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line. Income, generally defined, is the money that is received as a result of the normal business activities of an individual or a business. ...
The household is the basic unit of analysis in many microeconomic and government models. ...
The per capita income for a group of people may be defined as their total personal income, divided by the total population. ...
Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...
| Historical Population | | Year | Population | | 1860 | 8,236 | | 1870 | 12,854 | | 1880 | 20,768 | | 1890 | 44,843 | | 1900 | 53,531 | | 1910 | |
