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Metropolitan area
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As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions. The Greater São Paulo is a term for one of the multiple definitions the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil. A metropolitan area combines an urban agglomeration with zones not necessarily urban in character and these outlying zones are sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban zone, to other political entities. For example, El Monte, California is considered part of the Los Angeles metro area in the United States, in practice, the parameters of metropolitan areas, in both official and unofficial usage, are not consistent. Population figures given for one area can vary by millions. A polycentric metropolitan area is one not connected by continuous development or conurbation, in defining a metropolitan area, it is sufficient that a city or cities form a nucleus that other areas have a high degree of integration with. The Australian Bureau of Statistics defines statistical divisions as areas under the influence of one or more major towns or a major city. However, this definition has become obsolete with the conurbation of several statistical divisions into a larger metropolitan areas. In Brazil, metropolitan areas are called metropolitan regions, each State defines its own legislation for the creation, definition and organization of a metropolitan region. The creation of a region is not intended for any statistical purpose, although the Brazilian Institute of Geography. Their main purpose is to allow for a management of public policies of common interest to all cities involved. They dont have political, electoral or jurisdictional power whatsoever, so living in a metropolitan region do not elect representatives for them. Statistics Canada defines a metropolitan area as an area consisting of one or more adjacent municipalities situated around a major urban core. To form a CMA, the area must have a population of at least 100,000. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a degree of integration with the core. As of the Canada 2011 Census, there were 33 CMAs in Canada, including six with a population over one million—Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton. In Denmark the only area is Greater Copenhagen, consisting of the Capital Region of Denmark along with the neighboring regions Region Zealand. Greater Copenhagen has an population of 1.25 million people
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Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U. S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately 120-mile segment of the Wasatch Front and it is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin. The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and numerous other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named Great Salt Lake City—the word great was dropped from the name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Today, however, less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, Salt Lake City has since developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the banking center of the United States. Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. The land was treated by the United States as public domain, the first U. S. explorer in the Salt Lake area is believed to be Jim Bridger in 1825, although others had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the nearby Utah Valley. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845, the Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. The first permanent settlements in the date to the arrival of the Latter-day Saints on July 24,1847. Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, This is the right place, Brigham Young claimed to have seen the area in a vision prior to the wagon trains arrival. They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement, four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually become a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark. The Salt Lake Temple, constructed on the block that would later be called Temple Square, construction started in 1853, and the temple was dedicated on 6 April 1893. The temple has become an icon for the city and serves as its centerpiece, in fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the initial point of reference for the Salt Lake Meridian, and for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. 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, and designated Fillmore as its capital city. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the capital in 1858
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Utah
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Utah is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U. S. on January 4,1896, Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of more than 3 million, approximately 80% of whom live along the Wasatch Front, Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast, approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS, which greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life. The LDS Churchs world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City, Utah is the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church. The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, in 2013, the U. S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median income and the least income inequality of any U. S. state. A2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the best state to live in based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, the name Utah is derived from the name of the Ute tribe. It means people of the mountains in the Ute language, according to other sources Utah is derived from the Apache name Yudah which means Tall. These Native American tribes are subgroups of the Ute-Aztec Native American ethnicity and were sedentary, the Ancestral Pueblo people built their homes through excavations in mountains, and the Fremont people built houses of straw before disappearing from the region around the 15th century. Another group of Native Americans, the Navajo, settled in the region around the 18th century, in the mid-18th century, other Uto-Aztecan tribes, including the Goshute, the Paiute, the Shoshone, and the Ute people, also settled in the region. These five groups were present when the first European explorers arrived, the southern Utah region was explored by the Spanish in 1540, led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, while looking for the legendary Cíbola. A group led by two Catholic priests—sometimes called the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition—left Santa Fe in 1776, hoping to find a route to the coast of California, the expedition traveled as far north as Utah Lake and encountered the native residents. The Spanish made further explorations in the region, but were not interested in colonizing the area because of its desert nature, in 1821, the year Mexico achieved its independence from Spain, the region became known as part of its territory of Alta California. European trappers and fur traders explored some areas of Utah in the early 19th century from Canada, the city of Provo, Utah was named for one, Étienne Provost, who visited the area in 1825. The city of Ogden, Utah was named after Peter Skene Ogden, in late 1824, Jim Bridger became the first known English-speaking person to sight the Great Salt Lake. Due to the salinity of its waters, Bridger thought he had found the Pacific Ocean
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Office of Management and Budget
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The Office of Management and Budget is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The current OMB Director is Mick Mulvaney, the OMB Director reports to the President, Vice President and the White House Chief of Staff. The Bureau of the Budget was moved to the Executive Office of the President in 1939 and was run by Harold D. Smith during the rapid expansion of spending during the Second World War. The Bureau was reorganized into the Office of Management and Budget in 1970 during the Nixon administration, the first OMB included Roy Ash, Paul ONeill, Fred Malek and Frank Zarb and two dozen others. OMB prepares the Presidents budget proposal to Congress and supervises the administration of the executive branch agencies, OMB evaluates the effectiveness of agency programs, policies, and procedures, assesses competing funding demands among agencies, and sets funding priorities. OMB ensures that agency reports, rules, testimony, and proposed legislation are consistent with the presidents budget, OMB also oversees and coordinates the administrations procurement, financial management, information, and regulatory policies. OMB manages other agencies financials, paperwork, and IT, the Office is made up mainly of career appointed staff who provide continuity across changes of party and persons in the White House. Approximately half of all OMB staff are assigned to these offices, program examiners can be assigned to monitor one or more federal agencies or may be deployed by a topical area, such as monitoring issues relating to U. S. Navy warships. These staff have dual responsibility for management and budgetary issues, as well as responsibility for giving expert advice on all aspects relating to their programs. Each year they review federal agency budget requests and help decide what resource requests will be sent to Congress as part of the presidents budget and they are often called upon to provide analysis information to any EOP staff member. Other offices are OMB-wide support offices which include the Office of General Counsel, the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Budget Review Division, the BRD performs government-wide budget coordination and is largely responsible for the technical aspects relating to the release of the presidents budget each February. The Legislative Reference Division has the important role of being the clearing house across the federal government for proposed legislation or testimony by federal officials. It distributes proposed legislation and testimony to all relevant federal reviewers and they are also responsible for writing an Enrolled Bill Memorandum to the president once a bill is presented by both bodies of Congress for the presidents signature. They also issue Statements of Administration Policy that let Congress know the White Houses official position on proposed legislation. S. com, August 22,2005
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United States Census Bureau
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The United States Census Bureau is a principal agency of the U. S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureaus primary mission is conducting the U. S. Census every ten years, in addition to the decennial census, the Census Bureau continually conducts dozens of other censuses and surveys, including the American Community Survey, the U. S. Economic Census, and the Current Population Survey, furthermore, economic and foreign trade indicators released by the federal government typically contain data produced by the Census Bureau. The Bureaus various censuses and surveys help allocate over $400 billion in federal funds every year and help states, local communities, the Census Bureau is part of the U. S. Department of Commerce and its director is appointed by the President of the United States. The Census Bureau now conducts a population count every 10 years in years ending with a 0. Between censuses, the Census Bureau makes population estimates and projections, the Census Bureau is mandated with fulfilling these obligations, the collecting of statistics about the nation, its people, and economy. The Census Bureaus legal authority is codified in Title 13 of the United States Code, the Census Bureau also conducts surveys on behalf of various federal government and local government agencies on topics such as employment, crime, health, consumer expenditures, and housing. Within the bureau, these are known as surveys and are conducted perpetually between and during decennial population counts. The Census Bureau also conducts surveys of manufacturing, retail, service. Between 1790 and 1840, the census was taken by marshals of the judicial districts, the Census Act of 1840 established a central office which became known as the Census Office. Several acts followed that revised and authorized new censuses, typically at the 10-year intervals, in 1902, the temporary Census Office was moved under the Department of Interior, and in 1903 it was renamed the Census Bureau under the new Department of Commerce and Labor. The department was intended to consolidate overlapping statistical agencies, but Census Bureau officials were hindered by their role in the department. An act in 1920 changed the date and authorized manufacturing censuses every 2 years, in 1929, a bill was passed mandating the House of Representatives be reapportioned based on the results of the 1930 Census. In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code, by law, the Census Bureau must count everyone and submit state population totals to the U. S. President by December 31 of any year ending in a zero. States within the Union receive the results in the spring of the following year, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. The Census Bureau regions are widely used. for data collection, the Census Bureau definition is pervasive. Title 13 of the U. S. Code establishes penalties for the disclosure of this information, all Census employees must sign an affidavit of non-disclosure prior to employment. The Bureau cannot share responses, addresses or personal information with anyone including United States or foreign government, only after 72 years does the information collected become available to other agencies or the general public
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Salt Lake County, Utah
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Salt Lake County is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,029,655 and its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City, the state capital. The county was created in 1850, Salt Lake County occupies the Salt Lake Valley, as well as parts of the surrounding mountains, the Oquirrh Mountains to the west and the Wasatch Range to the east. In addition, the section of the county includes part of the Great Salt Lake. The county is noted for its ski resorts, Salt Lake City won the bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake County is the central county of the Salt Lake City, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area. This area was occupied for thousands of years by cultures of indigenous peoples, the area that was to become Salt Lake County was settled by European Americans in 1847 when Mormon pioneers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fled religious persecution in the East. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley of the Utah Territory after traveling what settlers later called Emigration Canyon, brigham Young, their leader, declared This is the place after seeing the valley. Compared to eastern regions, it seemed arid and unpromising to some of the migrants, settlers used extensive irrigation to develop agriculture and the flourishing, self-sufficient city, Great Salt Lake City. Thousands of Mormons joined them in the several decades. The county was organized on January 31,1850, with slightly more than 11,000 residents recorded. Mormon settlements were scattered across the valley and beyond and they relocated the territorial capital to Great Salt Lake City in 1857, when the name was subsequently shortened to Salt Lake City. They abandoned the valley and the set up Camp Floyd to the south in Utah County. Patrick Edward Connor, the leader of the garrison at Fort Douglas, was openly anti-Mormon and he sent out parties to scout for mineral resources in the nearby mountains, hoping to encourage non-Mormons to settle in the territory. During the late 19th century, mines were established in the Wasatch mountains, exploiting the mineral wealth was difficult until the Utah Central Railroad was constructed and reached this area in 1870. In the Oquirrh Mountains, the Bingham Canyon Mine, which contains vast deposits of copper and silver, was developed as the most productive of the countys mines. The mine, located in the southwest portion of the county, attracted thousands of miners, at its peak, the city of Bingham Canyon contained 20,000 residents, all crowded along the steep walls of the canyon, and natural disasters were a frequent occurrence. By the early 20th century, most of the mines in the county had closed, however, the Bingham Canyon Mine kept on expanding. In the early 21st century, it is among the largest open-pit mines in the world, after the railroad came to the county, the population began to expand more rapidly and non-Mormons began to settle in Salt Lake City
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Tooele County, Utah
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Tooele County /tuːˈɪlə/ is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 58,218 and its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year, Tooele County is part of the Salt Lake City, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area. A2008 CNNMoney. com article identified Tooele as the U. S. county experiencing the greatest job growth since 2000. Evidence of several indigenous Native American groups has found in Tooele County. The Goshutes traditional territory includes most of modern Tooele County, the Great Salt Lake Desert, which comprises much of the northern portion of the county, provided a major stumbling block for the ill-fated Donner-Reed Party in 1846. Its crusty sand slowed the groups wagons to such an extent that the spent six days crossing its 80-mile length. In 1849 the first white settlers established permanent roots in the Tooele Valley and they were members of the Latter-day Saint emigration group which had arrived in 1847. Building a sawmill, the settlement was called E. T, City after LDS leader E. T. Benson. The territorial legislature first designated Tooele County—initially called Tuilla—in January 1850 with significantly different boundaries and it is speculated that the name derives from a Native American chief, but controversy exists about whether such chief lived. Alternate explanations hypothesize that the name comes from tu-wanda, the Goshute word for bear, or from tule, Tooele was one of the six original counties in Deseret, which would become Utah Territory. By 1852, Grantsville, Batesville, and Pine Canyon were settled, in 1855 the town of Richville was designated county seat, but it soon became clear that Tooele was much larger. In 1861 the territorial legislature allowed the county to select a new seat, tension with native Goshutes plagued settlement in early Tooele County. In response to cattle thefts, a contingent of at least 50 men pursued Goshutes and attacked their camp in 1851, similar attacks occurred throughout the 1850s with natives typically being on the losing side. Jarvis, a U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs representative, the results looked promising, but Jarvis resigned in 1860 and support for the project disappeared, causing the farm to be abandoned. Twenty-two overland stagecoach outposts were built in Goshute territory, often on the sites of natural springs. Goshute attacks on mail outposts escalated in 1860, resulting in dozens of deaths in alternating waves of raids, Connor acted ruthlessly toward the natives. He killed over 300 Shoshone in Southern Idaho in 1863, connors men attacked Native American camps, sometimes indiscriminately, but through 1863 stage coach companies had lost 16 men and over 150 horses to depredations
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2010 United States Census
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The 2010 United States Census, is the twenty-third and currently most recent United States national census. National Census Day, the day used for the census, was April 1,2010. As part of a drive to increase the accuracy,635,000 temporary enumerators were hired. The population of the United States was counted as 308,745,538, as required by the United States Constitution, the U. S. census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. The 2000 U. S. Census was the previous census completed, participation in the U. S. Census is required by law in Title 13 of the United States Code. On January 25,2010, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves personally inaugurated the 2010 Census enumeration by counting World War II veteran Clifton Jackson, more than 120 million census forms were delivered by the U. S. Post Office beginning March 15,2010, the number of forms mailed out or hand-delivered by the Census Bureau was approximately 134 million on April 1,2010. The 2010 Census national mail participation rate was 74%, from April through July 2010, census takers visited households that did not return a form, an operation called non-response follow-up. In December 2010, the Census Bureau delivered population information to the president for apportionment, personally identifiable information will be available in 2082. The Census Bureau did not use a form for the 2010 Census. In several previous censuses, one in six households received this long form, the 2010 Census used only a short form asking ten basic questions, How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1,2010. Were there any additional people staying here on April 1,2010 that you did not include in Question 1, mark all that apply, Is this house, apartment, or mobile home – What is your telephone number. What is Person 1s age and Person 1s date of birth, is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin. Does Person 1 sometimes live or stay somewhere else, the form included space to repeat some or all of these questions for up to twelve residents total. In contrast to the 2000 census, an Internet response option was not offered, detailed socioeconomic information collected during past censuses will continue to be collected through the American Community Survey. The survey provides data about communities in the United States on a 1-year or 3-year cycle, depending on the size of the community, rather than once every 10 years. A small percentage of the population on a basis will receive the survey each year. In June 2009, the U. S. Census Bureau announced that it would count same-sex married couples, however, the final form did not contain a separate same-sex married couple option
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Wasatch County, Utah
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Wasatch County /ˈwɑːsætʃ/ is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,530 and its county seat and largest city is Heber City. The county was named for a Ute Indian word meaning mountain pass or low place in the high mountains, Wasatch County is part of the Heber, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area. The county is governed by a county council with an appointed county manager. As of 2016 County Council members are Danny Goode, Kendall Crittenden, Mike Kohler, Steve Farrell, Kipp Bangerter, Mike Petersen, Mike Davis serves as the appointed County Manager. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,206 square miles. The population density was 20 inhabitants per square mile, there were 9,840 housing units at an average density of 8.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 90. 4% White,0. 3% Black or African American,0. 5% Native American,0. 8% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,13. 5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 15. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 4. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.18 and the average family size was 3.19. In the county, the population was out with 36. 3% under the age of 20,5. 2% from 20 to 24,28. 1% from 25 to 44,21. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 31.6 years, for every 100 females there were 103.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.5 males, as of the census of 2000, the median income for a household in the county was $49,612, and the median income for a family was $52,102. Males had an income of $37,399 versus $23,571 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,869, about 4. 20% of families and 5. 20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5. 60% of those under age 18 and 4. 00% of those age 65 or over. Heber City Midway Charleston Daniel Hideout Independence Wallsburg Timber Lakes National Register of Historic Places listings in Wasatch County, Utah Wasatch County Website
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Summit County, Utah
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Summit County is a county located in the U. S. state of Utah, occupying a rugged and mountainous area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 36,324 and its county seat is Coalville, and the largest city is Park City. The county was created in 1854 and later organized in 1861 and it is so named because it includes 39 of the highest mountain peaks in Utah. The countys mean elevation is 8,388 feet above sea level, owing to its proximity to Salt Lake City, Park City has acquired a reputation as an upscale getaway, bringing new development to the area. Summit County comprises the Summit Park, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,882 square miles, of which 1,872 square miles is land and 10 square miles is water. The population density was 16 people per square mile, there were 17,489 housing units at an average density of 9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 91. 80% White,0. 24% Black or African American,0. 31% Native American,0. 96% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,5. 43% from other races, and 1. 21% from two or more races. 8. 09% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,18. 40% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 20% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.87 and the family size was 3.30. The median income for a household in the county was $64,962, males had a median income of $47,236 versus $28,621 for females. The per capita income for the county was $33,767, only 42. 9% are natives of Utah. 5. 40% of the population and 3. 00% of families were below the poverty line, according to a 2000 survey by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Summit County is much more diverse in religious belief than Utah as a whole. Summit County has traditionally been a Republican stronghold, in recent years, however, it has become more competitive, and Democrats have at times won a plurality or even a majority of the votes. Although George W. Bush carried the county in 2000 and 2004, his performance there was his worst in the state. In a 2006 U. S. Senate race, Summit County was the county carried by Democrat Pete Ashdown even as the Republican incumbent Orrin Hatch carried the state as a whole by a 2 to 1 margin. Presidential election, Barack Obama carried the county by a 15. 3% margin over John McCain, however, in the 2012 presidential election, Republican Mitt Romney defeated Obama in the county, 51% to 46%. In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated Republican Donald Trump, 51% to 36%, on the county level, most of the elected offices are held by Democrats, including four of the five seats on the newly created Summit County Council. -John Hanrahan, D, Claudia McMullin, D, Sally Elliott, D, Chris Robinson, D, David Ure, R Summit County was one of only two counties to vote against Utahs same-sex marriage ban in 2004
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Alta, Utah
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Alta is a town in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 383 at the 2010 census, a slight increase from the 2000 figure of 370. Alta is also the location of Alta Ski Area, a ski resort that has 500,000 visitors a year and it is known for its powder skiing and its refusal to allow snowboarding. Alta has been important to the development of skiing in Utah, Alta was founded about 1865 to house miners from the Emma mine, the Flagstaff mine, and other silver mines in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Sensationally rich silver ore in the Emma mine enabled its owners to sell the mine at a price to British investors in 1871. The subsequent exhaustion of the Emma ore body led to the recall of the American ambassador to Great Britain, who was a director of the company, and Congressional hearings in Washington. An 1878 fire and an 1885 avalanche destroyed most of the mining town. By the 1930s, only one resident, George Watson, remained in the town, facing back taxes on mining claims he owned, Watson donated much of the land in Alta to the U. S. Forest Service. Watson stipulated that the Forest Service use the land to construct a ski area, in 1935, Norwegian skiing legend Alf Engen was hired to help develop the area, and Alta opened its first ski lift in 1938. Today, Alta is a town, centered around the Alta Ski Area. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 4.1 square miles. At 8,950 feet, Alta is one of the highest cities in Utah, as of the census of 2010, there were 386 people in 156 households in the town. The racial makeup of the town was 93 percent white and 4 percent Hispanic or Latino, the population was 67 percent male and 33 percent female. The population was 4.7 percent under the age of 18 and 2.6 percent was 65 or older, Alta experiences a high altitude humid continental climate, which borders on a subalpine climate, due to its high elevation. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the town receives very heavy snows, averaging over 507 inches per year. During the very wet season of 1982/1983, Alta received as much as 900 inches of snow, leading to flooding of Wasatch streams as the snow melted during May. Twister – located near Alta Town Of Alta Official Website Alta Ski Area Official Website Alta Community Enrichment, the Alta Arts Council Wild old Bunch AltaCam Ski Forum Alta Visitors Bureau
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Bluffdale, Utah
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Bluffdale is a city in Salt Lake and Utah counties in the U. S. state of Utah, located about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,598, from 2011 to 2013, the National Security Agencys data storage center, the Utah Data Center, was constructed at Camp Williams in Bluffdale. It is approximately 1 million square feet in size, Bluffdale is also home to the Granite Point data center. Bluffdale, named for its geography of bluffs and dales, was first settled in 1848–1849 when the area was part of West Jordan. On July 29,1858, Orrin Porter Rockwell paid five- hundred dollars to Evan M. Green for sixteen acres of land near to the Crystal Hot Lakes and this land included a hotel with dining facilities, stable, brewery, and pony express station. As the community expanded, the Bluffdale area became part of South Jordan, in 1883 the Bluffdale School Precinct was formed from parts of Herriman, South Jordan and Draper. On August 1,1886, the Bluffdale Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized with Lewis H. Mousley as Bishop, for a short time the town was called Mousley. There are seven irrigation canals that originate at the Jordan Narrows in the Bluffdale area, one of the earliest was the Utah and Salt Lake Canal started in 1862. Some of the buildings included an adobe church, built in 1887–1888, a tithing house. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 10.22 square miles. Bluffdale is predominately located in Salt Lake County, though a portion of the city is located in Utah County, Bluffdale shares city borders with Herriman to the west, Riverton to the north, Draper to the east, and Lehi to the south. Bluffdale is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, as of the census of 2000, there were 4,700 people,1,112 households, and 1,028 families residing in the city. The population density was 286.0 people per square mile, there were 1,141 housing units at an average density of 69.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 96. 96% White,0. 23% African American,0. 28% Native American,0. 23% Asian,0. 26% Pacific Islander,1. 19% from other races, and 0. 85% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 34% of the population, of all households 5. 5% were made up of individuals and 2. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.23 and the family size was 4.39. In the city, the population was out with 41. 3% under the age of 18,10. 1% from 18 to 24,27. 8% from 25 to 44,16. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 23 years, for every 100 females there were 101.6 males
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Cottonwood Heights, Utah
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Cottonwood Heights is a city located in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, along the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley. It lies south of the cities of Holladay and Murray, east of Midvale, following a successful incorporation referendum in May 2004, the city was incorporated on January 14,2005. Cottonwood Heights had been a Census-designated place before incorporation, the population as of the 2010 census was 33,433. This is a significant increase over the CDPs 2000 census count of 27,569, the corporate offices of Dyno Nobel, Extra Space Storage, JetBlue Airways, Overstock. com and Fusion-io are located in the city. In 2007, Money magazine rated Cottonwood Heights at #100 on their Best Places to Live list, as the citys name suggests, its geography is dominated by a high ridge separating the valleys of the Big and Little Cottonwood Creeks. The ridge is covered in housing, but most commercial development has been restricted to the lower-lying areas north of the ridge. State Route 190 and State Route 210 run near the edge of the city and provide access to the canyons. Interstate 215 runs along the border of the city and State Route 152 touches the city at a point. The city is building a trail along the full length of Big Cottonwood Creek within its borders. Cottonwood Heights is in the Canyons School District, Brighton High School is the public high school in the city. Butler Middle school is the middle school in city limits. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP had an area of 6.8 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 27,569 people,9,439 households, the population density was 4,052.9 people per square mile. There were 9,932 housing units at a density of 1,460.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 93. 57% White,0. 70% African American,0. 27% Native American,2. 28% Asian,0. 32% Pacific Islander,1. 11% from other races, and 1. 75% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3. 07% of the population,16. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.92 and the family size was 3.31. In the CDP, the population was out with 26. 4% under the age of 18,12. 6% from 18 to 24,28. 0% from 25 to 44,25. 1% from 45 to 64
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Draper, Utah
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Draper is a city in Salt Lake and Utah counties in the U. S. state of Utah, located about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 42,274, Draper is part of two metropolitan areas - the Salt Lake County portion is included in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, while the Utah County portion is part of the Provo-Orem metropolitan area. The Utah State Prison is located in Draper, near Point of the Mountain, the execution of Gary Gilmore took place there on January 17,1977. American Indian groups living in Utah include the Ute, Paiute, Goshute, Shoshone, a group of Shoshone people near Hoytsville, Utah. The Utes, Paiutes, Goshutes, and Shoshone people speak languages from a family known as the Numic Language Family. In the fall of 1849, Ebenezer Brown brought cattle to graze along the stream of South Willow Creek. The next spring, he brought his family and sold his cattle to immigrants heading to the fields of California along what became the Mormon Road. More settlers came in the few years to the new settlement first known as Sivogah, meaning Willows. At the end of 1852,20 families lived along South Willow Creek, in 1854, the first post office was established with the name Draperville for William Draper III, the first presiding elder of the towns Mormon congregation. The name of the town in years was shortened to Draper. Hostilities with the Native Americans began in 1854, and a fort was established were the settlers lived. The fort was never completed, as the hostilities did not materialize. Draper lies roughly midway between Salt Lake City and Provo, Draper is bordered by Riverton and Bluffdale to the west, South Jordan to the northwest, Sandy to the north, Alpine to the southeast, Highland to the south, and Lehi to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 30.1 square miles, of which 30.1 square miles is land and 0.015 square miles. The winds on Traverse Ridge make it an area for hang gliding and paragliding. In 2004, Draper citizens voted for a tax increase that would pay for the purchase of key pieces of property in the Corner Canyon area. The aim of this measure was to protect and preserve the Corner Canyon area for the enjoyment of citizens of the city. In the fall of 2005,1,021 acres of property were identified and purchased for the development of Corner Canyon Regional Park, which will consist of parks, trails, drapers climate is roughly identical to that of other Salt Lake City suburbs
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Grantsville, Utah
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Grantsville is the second most populous city in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 9,063 on the 2011 report of the American Community Survey, a branch of the U. S. Census Bureau. The city has slowly and steadily throughout most of its existence. It is quickly becoming a community for commuters into the Salt Lake valley. Grantsville was first known by the name Twenty Wells, due to the many artesian springs in the area. The area of Grantsville was originally populated by the Goshute tribe, the abundance of springs made it an important site for the Goshute society. In 1848, stock owners in Salt Lake City began allowing their livestock to graze in Goshute lands, the first permanent Mormon settlers arrived in 1850 to establish one of Brigham Youngs more than 350 Mormon colonies throughout Utah Territory. By then, the town was known as Willow Creek. Grant is also known for leading a group to rescue members of the Martin Handcart Company, by the end of the next decade, the 1860s, Grantsville had become a largely self-sufficient oasis of orchards and shade trees at the edge of the Territorys western deserts. Brigham Young himself visited Grantsville on several occasions, both officially and unofficially, and dedicated the first permanent church building in 1866, the building stands today, though it is no longer owned by the Church. The Lincoln Highway passed through the city in 1925 after it was realigned to the north, Grantsville is bordered on the south by South Mountain, which separates Rush Valley from Tooele Valley. To the north is Stansbury Island, and on the east are the Oquirrh Mountains, sR-138 passes through the city, heading northwest to intersect with I-80 and east to Stansbury Park. The climate is hot during the summer and cold and snowy during the winter, although Grantsville can be affected by lake-effect snow off of the Great Salt Lake, most of the time it is too far southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 19.34 square miles. As of the census of 2011, there were 9,063 people, the population density was 459.8 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 95. 7% White,0. 1% African American. 7% Native American,0. 1% Asian,0. 2% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 1% of the population. 15. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.24 and the average family size was 3.62. In the city, the population was out with 36. 7% under the age of 18,10. 1% from 18 to 24,27. 3% from 25 to 44,17. 4% from 45 to 64
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Herriman, Utah
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Herriman is a city in southwestern Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 21,785 as of the 2010 census, although Herriman was a town in 2000, it has since been classified as a fifth-class city by state law. The city has experienced growth since incorporation in 1999, as its population was just 1,523 at the 2000 census. It grew from being the 111th-largest incorporated place in Utah in 2000 to the 32nd-largest in 2010, Herriman was established in 1849 by Robert Dansie, Henry Harriman, and Thomas Jefferson Butterfield. A monument located in the Herriman City Cemetery lists the four families of Herriman as the Thomas Jefferson Butterfield, John Jay Stocking, Robert Cowan Petty. Rosecrest is a developer who acquired some rights in a large area around Herriman. Rosecrest is owned by parent company Sorenson Companies founded by the late James LeVoy Sorenson, the lawsuit stemmed from a struggle between Bluffdale city officials, strict city building requirements, and Rosecrest. On September 19,2010, the National Guard was performing an exercise at Camp Williams, south of Herriman, unified Fire Authority members mobilized and were able to arrest the progress of the fire, but not before 3 homes were destroyed and another damaged. Various small structures were also affected, over 1,200 homes were evacuated in the face of the oncoming danger, with most of them able to return by Tuesday, September 21,2010. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 20.3 square miles. Herriman shares borders with Riverton to the east, South Jordan to the north, as of the census of 2010, there were 21,785 people,5,542 households, and 5,022 families residing in the town. The population density was 1075.0 people per square mile, there were 6,022 housing units at an average density of 297.2 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 93. 3% White. 3% Native American,1. 3% Asian,0. 5% Pacific Islander. 3% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 2% of the population. 6. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 1. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.93 and the average family size was 4.13. In the town the population was out with 44. 1% under the age of 18,6. 1% from 18 to 24,29. 0% from 25 to 44,11. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 24.7 years, for every 100 females there were 102.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.7 males, the median income for a household in the town was $56,361, and the median income for a family was $57,404. Males had an income of $44,135 versus $30,893 for females
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Holladay, Utah
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Holladay is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 26,472 at the 2010 census, a significant increase from 14,561 in 2000. The city was incorporated on November 29,1999 as Holladay-Cottonwood, and it was reported in the 1990 census as the Holladay-Cottonwood CDP. On July 29,1847 a group of Mormon pioneers known as the Mississippi Company, among them John Holladay of Alabama, within weeks after their arrival, they discovered a free-flowing, spring-fed stream, which they called Spring Creek. While most of the returned to the main settlement in Great Salt Lake for the winter. Thus, this became the first village established away from Great Salt Lake City itself, in the spring, a number of families hurried out to build homes and tame the land. There were numerous springs and ponds here and grasses and wild flowers were abundant, when John Holladay was named as the branch president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the village took upon itself the name of Holladay’s Settlement or Holladay’s Burgh. John Holladays family dates to the early 18th century in Virginia and his ancestors were signers of the South Carolina Declaration of Independence and fought in the Revolutionary War. He is a cousin to Ben Holladay, The Stagecoach King and it is not known if they were in contact. John and his father Daniel, a Revolutionary War veteran, pioneered in Alabama before Johns conversion to Mormonism. A year before the first LDS migration, in the spring of 1846 and they had not gotten the word that Brigham Youngs departure had been delayed by a year. Holladay is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in Utah, since Salt Lake City was abandoned for a time in 1857 when Johnstons Army occupied the city, another center of settlement is the area settled in the mid-19th century by Rasmus Knudsen, now known as Knudsens Corner. This area lies in the southeastern corner of the city and is split with neighboring Cottonwood Heights. In the 1960s the Cottonwood Mall was constructed in Holladay, it being Utahs first enclosed shopping mall, the mall was closed down in 2007 after a plan to turn the mall into a European-style outdoor shopping village was announced. The city was incorporated on November 29,1999 as Holladay-Cottonwood, Holladay City operated under the strong mayor form of government from 1999 until 2003, when the council-manager form was adopted. The mayors of Holladay have been Liane Stillman, Dennis Larkin, the citys first manager is Randy Fitts. Members of the City Council have included Edward D. P, lunt, Sandy Thackeray, Steven Peterson, Jim Palmer, Grant Orton, Daniel Bay Gibbons, Jeffrey Fishman, Hugo Diederich, Lynn Pace and Patricia Pignanelli. It has also expanded its borders several times, the most significant expansion of which was in 2002, as of the census of 2000, there were 14,561 people,5,096 households, and 3,806 families residing in the city
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Midvale, Utah
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Midvale is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 30,764 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 5.8 square miles. This climatic region is typified by large temperature differences, with warm to hot summers. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Midvale has a continental climate. As of the census of 2000, there were 27,029 people,10,089 households, the population density was 4,627.4 people per square mile. There were 10,730 housing units at a density of 1,837.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 82. 44% White,1. 18% African American,1. 29% Native American,1. 85% Asian,0. 58% Pacific Islander,9. 96% from other races, and 2. 71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 20. 77% of the population,25. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 6. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the family size was 3.19. In the city, the population was out with 25. 8% under the age of 18,16. 7% from 18 to 24,31. 8% from 25 to 44,16. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 28 years, for every 100 females there were 102.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.7 males, the median income for a household in the city was $40,130, and the median income for a family was $43,322. Males had an income of $31,325 versus $25,382 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,609, about 9. 4% of families and 13. 1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 19. 3% of those under age 18 and 3. 5% of those age 65 or over. Midvale City has a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government, the mayor and five councilors are elected to four-year terms. The current Mayor of Midvale is Dr. JoAnn B, City Council members include Robert M. Hale, Paul Glover, Brent Moore, Wayne Sharp, and Colleen Costello. Midvale Fire and Police are furnished by arrangement with the Unified Police, Midvale no longer fields its own police or fire departments
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Millcreek, Utah
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Millcreek is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, and is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area. Prior to its incorporation on December 28,2016, Millcreek was a census-designated place, the first settlers of the Millcreek area in 1848 included Mary Fielding Smith and her children, including Joseph F. Smith. The area remained rural in character until after World War II. As postwar suburban growth spilled south over the Salt Lake City limits, by the 1980s, most of the area now in Millcreek was built out and known by various names, including East Millcreek, Canyon Rim and Mount Olympus. In the 2000 census, the area was divided among four CDPs, the population of this CDP was 30,377 at the 2000 census, and had a total area of 4.9 square miles. Canyon Rim CDP, East Millcreek CDP, and Mount Olympus CDP were consolidated with Millcreek CDP in the 2010 census, the township was created to give residents of the area more local control over planning and prevent annexations by neighboring cities. As other communities south of Salt Lake City were incorporated in the 1990s and 2000s, residents considered a number of options for their future, including incorporation, which would make it the countys fifth-largest city. The initiative failed with only 40 percent of the vote, leaving Millcreek under the jurisdiction of the Salt Lake County Mayor and Council, as are other unincorporated areas of the county. Despite the failure of the initiative in 2012, the question was put on the ballot again three years later, and Millcreek residents voted for incorporation on November 3,2015. In the 2016 election, residents voted for a mayor and city council members in advance of incorporation, suburban in character, Millcreek is wedged between Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake on the north and Murray and Holladay on the south. Millcreek residents typically identify with Salt Lake City, which is designated by the U. S. Postal Service as the place name for mailing addresses in the area. However, “Millcreek” is a place name for addresses in the ZIP codes 84106,84107,84109,84117. The city is organized into four community councils, Canyon Rim, East Millcreek, Millcreek and this climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Millcreek has a continental climate. As of the census of 2000, there were 30,377 people,12,545 households, the population density was 6,160.5 people per square mile. There were 13,403 housing units at a density of 2,718. 1/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 87. 07% White,1. 57% African American,1. 24% Native American,3. 11% Asian,0. 64% Pacific Islander,3. 34% from other races, and 3. 04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9. 15% of the population,31. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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Murray, Utah
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Murray is a city situated on the Wasatch Front in the core of Salt Lake Valley in the U. S. state of Utah. Named for territorial governor Eli Murray, it is the fourteenth largest city. According to the 2010 census, Murray has approximately 46,746 residents, Murray shares borders with Taylorsville, Holladay, South Salt Lake and West Jordan, Utah. Once teeming with heavy industry, Murray’s industrial sector now has little trace and has replaced by major mercantile sectors. Known for its location in Salt Lake County, Murray has been called the Hub of Salt Lake County. Unlike most of its communities, Murray operates its own police, fire, power, water, library. While maintaining many of its own services, Murray has one of the lowest city tax rates in the state, thousands of people each year visit Murray City Park for organized sports and its wooded areas. Murray is home to the Intermountain Medical Center, a medical campus that is also Murray’s largest employer. Murray has been designated a Tree City USA since 1977, the tribes camped along local creek banks and stream beds during their migrations. Artifacts of Native American encampments have been located along the Jordan River, at what was known as the “big bend” of the Jordan River, the Goshute Indians from Skull Valley made their camp. This was made every spring on the way to their ground at the headwaters of the Bear River. On their return in the fall, they stayed for a week. Early settlers recorded that they generally traded buffalo robes, deer skins, dried meat, mormon pioneers came into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. A pioneer group that was called the Mississippi Saints arrived one year later, the area was distinguished by various names, such as the Mississippi Ward, Cottonwood, Big Cottonwood and South Cottonwood. Written history states that at least 20 families were living in the South Cottonwood area in the 1860s. When the first pioneer families settled in the South Cottonwood area in the fall of 1848, they selected the low or bottom lands along the streams of Little Cottonwood Creek and they found an abundance of grass for their cattle and horses there. It was easy to take the water from the streams for irrigation of farm crops, the higher bench lands were covered with sagebrush and produced very little grass. Because of the labor and difficulty in getting water to them, they were left, there was a strip of high bench land, completely surrounded by low land north of what is now Vine Street and 5600 South Street
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Ophir, Utah
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Ophir is a town in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 23 at the 2000 census, a decrease of two from the 1990 figure of 25. Ophir was named for the canyon and mining district, where gold was discovered in the 1860s. The mining district was named for the biblical Ophir, from where King Solomon brought back gold to Israel, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 23 people,10 households, the population density was 143.0 people per square mile. There were 33 housing units at a density of 205.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 95. 65% White and 4. 35% Asian. There were 10 households out of which 20. 0% had children under the age of 18 living with them,60. 0% were married couples living together, and 40. 0% were non-families. 40. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 20. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 3.17. In the town, the population was out with 8. 7% under the age of 18,8. 7% from 18 to 24,8. 7% from 25 to 44,43. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 54 years, for every 100 females there were 109.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 110.0 males, the median income for a household in the town was $50,000, and the median income for a family was $49,167. Males had an income of $46,875 versus $13,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $29,906, none of the population or families were below the poverty line
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Riverton, Utah
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Riverton is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 38,753 at the 2010 census. Riverton is located in the rapidly growing Southwestern corner of the Salt Lake Valley, Riverton shares city borders with South Jordan to the north, Draper to the east, Bluffdale to the south, and Herriman to the west. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 12.6 square miles. The city is located in the Southwestern corner of the Salt Lake Valley about twenty miles south, Riverton City receives an average of 15.76 inches in precipitation each year. Businesses, housing, and roads have replaced many of the farms, located in the southern end of Salt Lake Valley, the first people of European descent to live in the area that is now Riverton settled in the mid-1850s. These early settlers scattered widely along the bottom in crude dugout homes. Although the early accounts disagree, Archibald Gardner may have been the first to live on Riverton land, the town was originally referred to as “Gardnerville” prior to changing its name to Riverton. Rivertons initial growth was slow because of the lack of water for irrigation, when more water became available, the town began to grow. Eventually three canals were built to water from the nearby Jordan River to the benchland areas. By the beginning of World War I in 1914, with its additional irrigation water and influx of people and its thriving business district was also evident at this time. The Page-Pixon store was built around the start of the 20th century, the large department store sold everything from building materials, coal and dry goods to groceries, grain and housewares. This building was set back off the road and had a tie rail in front of it for tying up horses, the Jordan Valley Bank was started in 1905 as a community bank. This bank was first housed in the Page-Hansen Store then the Commercial Building, in 1920 it moved across the street, to the south. Farming was also a major Riverton business, just before the turn of the century, the farmers in Riverton gradually began to change from self-sufficient farming to commercial farming. In its early years Rivertons farmers were mostly self-sufficient, producing almost everything they needed and this was no longer the case when farming became a business. Riverton farmers were becoming specialists concentrating mostly on alfalfa, wheat, sugar beets, tomatoes, poultry, at this time, on land purchased from Samuel Howard in 1886, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began to store tithed produce and livestock. It was not long until the hill that this enterprise was located on, at 1150 West 12400 South, became known as Tithing Yard Hill, electricity first came to Riverton in 1912
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Rush Valley, Utah
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The Black Mountains of Utah, USA is a 30-mile long mountain range in the northeast of Iron County. The north ridgeline of the forms the southeast border of Beaver County. The range borders the northeast portion of the Escalante Desert, in the south section, of a southwest trending ridgeline, is the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs Site. Interstate 15 in Utah traverses the southeast region of the range from Cedar City, the Black Mountains have a complex shape. It has an east-west ridgeline at the perimeter with the Beaver River in the west, and Minersville Reservoir in the center. The highpoint of the range, Mahogany Knoll, is in the northeast on the ridgeline, from the northeast range terminus, a ridgeline extends southwest to Cedar Valley, and borders the northwest of Parowan Valley. The valley is narrow, separated from the northeast-section of the Hurricane Cliffs, the Old Spanish National Historic Trail followed the summit, and crossed west across the north region of Cedar Valley, at the south terminus of the Black Mountains ridgeline, near Enoch. About 10 miles northeast of Enoch, and 8 miles northwest of Parowan, the center- of the range is near Chipman Peak,7,966 feet. The highpoint of the range is Mahogany Knoll,7,976 feet, at the north ridgeline, Utah State Route 21 borders the north of the range following the Beaver River from Minersville Reservoir, at the center-north foothills, SR-21 turns northeast towards Beaver and Greenville. The route meets the north of Cedar Valley, and the site of Rush Lake, a dry lake, the route continues to Enoch, and I-15 at Cedar City. At the Black Mountains southeast, I-15 follows the southeast side of Parowan Valley, from Enoch, Summit, then Parowan, then north to Greenville, at the south of Beaver, range center, Mahogany Knoll, range highpoint, mountainzone. com
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Sandy, Utah
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Sandy is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 87,461 at the 2010 census, making it the sixth-largest city in Utah, Sandy is home to the Shops at South Town shopping mall, the Jordan Commons entertainment, office and dining complex, and the South Towne Exposition Center. It is also the location of the soccer-specific Rio Tinto Stadium, which hosts Real Salt Lake home games, the city is currently developing an urban, walkable and transit-oriented city center called The Cairns. Located at the base of the Wasatch Mountains thirteen miles south of Salt Lake City, permanent settlers first moved into Sandy during the 1860s and 1870s because of the availability of land in the less crowded southern end of the Salt Lake Valley. The origin of its name has not been established with any certainty, perhaps most widely believed is that Brigham Young named Sandy for its thirsty soil, but there is no historical evidence for this. Another theory is that the name came from a legendary and colorful Scotsman, Alexander Sandy Kinghorn, though this seems bolstered by the original name, historians consider it unlikely in view of the short period between the start of the train service and the first instances of the name. Within a few years, Thomas Allsop, a Yorkshire farmer who had immigrated to Utah in 1853, leGrand Young owned the land between Fourth East and State Street. Farmers willing to try their hand at the thirsty soil that inspired Sandys name took up land along State Street, but it was mining that shaped Sandys first four decades. Three major smelters were located in Sandy and they were the Flagstaff, the Mingo, and the Saturn. These made Sandy the territorys most significant smelting center for a number of years, the railroad was also significant in determining the course of Sandys history. Built in 1873, the railroad connected Sandy to Salt Lake City and facilitated the transportation of ore, a streetcar line in 1907 facilitated the transportation of locals to jobs in Salt Lake City, and the automobile later continued to serve that function. When the mines failed in the 1890s, Sandy faltered, then underwent a significant economic transformation into an agricultural community. The fact that Sandy did not disappear, like so many mining towns that dwindled with their mother lodes, was due to its location, resources. Sandy was incorporated in 1893, largely as part of an effort to combat what Mormon inhabitants considered unsavory elements in the town, due to its mine-based beginnings, Sandy was somewhat of a boomtown, unlike the majority of other rural Utah towns. After incorporation, it was almost as if Sandy had redefined itself, gone were the large numbers of single, transient men. By 1900, there was only a handful of saloons and hotels, church, farming, business, and family formed the focus of the inhabitants world. This pace and way of life continued for more than six decades, interrupted only by wars, the Depression, no significant jumps in population, economic trends, or social patterns altered the predictable and stable rhythm of life. In the late 1960s, however, this rural town dramatically changed course with its second boom and it had always been assumed by local leaders and citizens that Sandy would grow outward from its logical and historic center—the nexus of Main and Center streets
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South Jordan, Utah
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South Jordan is a city in the U. S. state of Utah. The city lies in the Salt Lake Valley between the 9, 000-foot peaks of the Oquirrh Mountains and the 12, 000-foot peaks of the Wasatch Mountains and is part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The Jordan River flows through the middle of the valley and the city has a 3. 5-mile section of the Jordan River Parkway that contains fishing ponds, trails, parks and natural habitat. Salt Lake County fair grounds and equestrian park, 67-acre Oquirrh Lake and 27 other parks are located inside the city, as of the 2010 Census, its population was 50,418. The city was founded 18 miles south of Salt Lake City along the banks of the Jordan River in 1859 by Mormon settlers, an agrarian town for most of its history, today it is a rapidly growing bedroom community of Salt Lake City. Kennecott Land, a development company, has recently begun construction on the master-planned Daybreak Community for the entire western half of South Jordan. Daybreak could potentially double South Jordans population, South Jordan is the first city in the world with two temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The city has two TRAX light rail stops, as well as one commuter rail stop on the FrontRunner, the first known inhabitants were members of the Desert Archaic Culture who were nomadic hunter-gatherers. From 400 A. D. to around 1350 A. D. the Fremont people settled into villages and farmed corn and squash. Changes in climatic conditions to a cooler, drier period and the movement into the area of ancestors of the Ute, Paiute, the only recorded trapper to lead a party through the area was Étienne Provost, a French Canadian. In October 1824, Provosts party was lured into an Indian camp somewhere along the Jordan River north of Utah Lake, the people responsible for the attack were planning revenge against Provosts party for an earlier unexplained incident involving other trappers. Provost escaped, but his men were caught off-guard and fifteen of them were killed, on July 22,1847, an advanced party of the first Mormon pioneers entered the valley and immediately began to irrigate land and explore the area with a view to establishing new settlements. Alexander Beckstead, a blacksmith from Ontario, Canada, moved his family to the West Jordan area in 1849 and he helped dig the first ditch to divert water from the Jordan River, powering Archibald Gardners flour mill. In 1859, Beckstead became the first settler of South Jordan by moving his family along the Jordan River where they lived in a cut into the west bluffs above the river. The flood plain of the Jordan was level, and could be cleared for farming if a ditch was constructed to divert water along the base of the west bluff. Beckstead and others created the 2. 5-mile Beckstead Ditch, parts of which are still in use as of 2010, in 1863, the South Jordan LDS Branch was organized as a branch of the West Jordan Ward, giving South Jordan its name. The Branch consisted of just nine families, a school was built in 1864 out of adobe and also served as the LDS Meetinghouse for the South Jordan Branch. As South Jordan grew, a new and larger building was constructed in 1873 on the east side of the site of the present-day cemetery
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South Salt Lake, Utah
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South Salt Lake is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States and is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 23,617 at the 2010 census, incorporated in 1938, South Salt Lake celebrated its 75th-year Diamond Anniversary in 2013. Nestled among and often confused for neighboring larger cities, it is close to everything from golf courses to a night life while still maintaining its small town feel. Some of Utahs best ski resorts are about a 30-minute drive, in 1936 Central Park incorporated as its own town. Jesse Fox Jr. developed the area South Salt Lake refers to as Central Park around 1890 and it runs approximately from State Street to 300 East and 2500 South to 3000 South. Mr. Fox chose the name after visiting New York and seeing Central Park there and he was impressed by the park, and the urban planning. He wanted his development to be related to the status of the Central Park in New York, South Salt Lake was a rural place at the time but he was so impressed at what he saw back east, he wanted to make a connection to the development here. A few of the names in the neighborhood have a connection to Mr. Fox. He had a daughter named Esther Vidas Fox, and another named Lucy Beryl Fox, there was no daughter named Leslie. However, there was a relative, Lester Fox who went by Leslie. In 1925 the LDS Central Park Ward was created and named after the development, on August 14,1936 a resolution creating the Town of Central Park was approved by the Board of County Commissioners. There were 37 pages of signatures in favor of incorporating the town, on or about July 15,1937, one-fourth or more of the legal voters of said Town of Central Park, Utah petitioned to disincorporate the town. On November 2,1937,1013 votes were cast,731 were for the dis-incorporation, almost a year later the Town of South Salt Lake was established in September 1938. The property formerly known as Woodrow Wilson Elementary was renamed Central Park Community Center to reflect the history in the area and it boasts a ball diamond, a playground, a Head Start Pre-School, and the Pete Suazo Boxing Gym. Every day you can see kids playing soccer, or baseball, animal lovers with their dogs, joggers, on Thursday, September 29,1938 a meeting was called to order at 8,30 p. m. by Robert R. Fitts. Also in attendance at this meeting were Alma Kasteler, A. S, dykman, Clyde H. Peck, and Ariel A. Jensen. The official resolution as passed by Salt Lake County creating the Town of South Salt Lake, Board members took their oath before Justice Herman Gygi. And so it began, The Town of South Salt Lake with Mr. Fitts as the first town president, the town was created because of a need for a sewer system
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Stockton, Utah
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Stockton is a town in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 616 at the 2010 census. Stockton was born of the first mining boom in the Utah Territory, connor wanted to counterbalance his perceived dominance of Mormon leaders in the area by exploring and developing the territorys mineral wealth. He posited that if precious metals could be discovered in Utah, the flood of miners into the territory would overwhelm the Mormons. Mines were dug on the slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains. The small town was first settled in 1863, under the growing influence of the mining industry, the population swelled to 4,000 residents. It was the first town in the Utah Territories to have its streets surveyed and named, and it gained the distinction of being the first to get electric lights. A town cemetery was created shortly into the twentieth century, a sesquicentennial commemoration was held on 27 April 2013 to mark the towns founding. Part of the ceremony was the unveiling of a sign, mounted on the north end town and visible from the main highway through the towns business district. The town is led by a mayor and a town council, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2010, there were 616 people,216 households, the population density was 596.7 people per square mile. There were 237 housing units at a density of 213.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 96. 6% White,0. 6% Native American,1. 7% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 6. 7% of the population. 16. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.85 and the average family size was 3.18. In the town, the population was out with 23. 7% age 14 and younger,11. 2% from 15 to 24,25. 1% from 25 to 44,29. 7% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36.8 years, as of 2000, the median income for a household in the town was $40,938, and the median income for a family was $45,179. Males had an income of $36,250 versus $25,000 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,894, about 7. 2% of families and 6. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4. 9% of those under age 18 and 8. 9% of those age 65 or over
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Taylorsville, Utah
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Taylorsville is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 58,657 at the 2010 census. Taylorsville was incorporated from the Taylorsville-Bennion CDP and portions of the Kearns CDP on April 24,1996, the city is located adjacent to interstate 215 and Bangerter Highway. It is centrally located in the middle of the Salt Lake Valley, the area called Taylorsville today is made up of three historic communities in the central part of Salt Lake County, Taylorsville, Bennion, and Kearns. These communities incorporated through a vote of the people with over 70 percent approval in September 1995, the city officially became the City of Taylorsville during the centennial anniversary of Utahs statehood in 1996. The land on which Taylorsville is located is part of an alluvial plain that was formed by the wearing down of the Wasatch. Beneath the surface Taylorsville sits on more than a kilometer of unconsolidated rock, sand, the inactive Taylorsville Fault has been traced down the center of the Salt Lake Valley. Lake Bonneville shaped the topography of the area and deposited lake bottom clay, as Lake Bonneville dried up over the past 14,000 years, the salt from the breakdown of rock remains, making the soil alkaline. Like most desert soils, it has little organic material and is hard to work, a broad, east-west running ridge called Bennion Hill rises perhaps a hundred and fifty feet above the surrounding area. Bennion Hill is the end of a wide ridge which rises toward Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. The first people in the region appeared during or after the last ice age on the shores of what remained of Lake Bonneville, less than five miles from Taylorsville evidence of people killing and eating a mammoth have been found. Some of this region’s first named visitors were Fremont people who used the area to hunt, a large Fremont settlement on City Creek used the land where Taylorsville is located as hunting and foraging especially along the river. In more recent times Ute bands passed through the valley between the marshes of the Great Salt Lake and Utah Valley, most of the area was dry sagebrush-covered land without any natural water sources except the Jordan River. A well-used Ute trail wound along the west side of the river at approximately 1300 West which the Ute used in spring, early settlers observed small encampments of Ute in the cottonwoods along the Jordan River. At least one local settler called these people the Yo-No, whether the name is his own creation or an approximation of something they said is unknown. There are poorly documented suggestions that Spanish missionaries, soldiers, the whole region was called Teguayo and Lake Copalla appear on maps of Spanish Nuevo Mexico. In 1849 Samuel and John Bennion and several families moved south crossing the river on the ice in January. There was little in the way of building materials, so the families dug into the bluffs of the Jordan River for shelter, the soil was hard to work and they kept looking for better land to farm
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Tooele, Utah
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Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U. S. state of Utah. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 32,115 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Tooele County. About 30 minutes southwest of Salt Lake City, Tooele is known for Tooele Army Depot, for its views of the nearby Oquirrh Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. The Tooele Valley had no permanent settlement when Mormon pioneers entered the Great Salt Lake Valley in July 1847, the Mormons first used the valley as wintering grounds for their herds. In September 1849, three families settled on a stream south of present Tooele City. Other families slowly joined them, and by 1853 Tooele City Corporation was organized, during the nineteenth century, the town was primarily an agricultural community, its population was about 1,200 at the turn of the century. The 20th century brought more industrialization, in 1905 the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad built a line through the city, the Tooele Valley Railway, a seven-mile line, ran from the smelter west to the Union Pacific Railroad main line. This line brought ore from various area mines to the smelter, later a 20,000 ft aerial tramway was used to transport ore from the mine to the smelter. By 1941 a 22,000 ft tunnel had been completed through the mountain, the smelter began processing copper in 1910, with lead and zinc processing commencing in 1912. In 1946 the copper smelter ceased operation, the zinc operation halted in 1968, the entire site was demolished during 1972-74. However, consideration was being given during this period to extracting ore from Carr Fork Canyon. In 1969 the mining company began exploration drilling, in 1974 a copper mine and mill was started, it began processing ore in 1979, and ran until 1981. The Tooele Valley Railway was used to haul away the scrap when the International smelter was torn down and it was shut down and abandoned when the Pine Canyon “Carr Fork” mine and mill shut down, its last day of operation was 28 August 1982. In the eastern section of Tooele, “New Town” was built for many of the 1,000 smelter workers, families from the Balkans, Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor lived in this area and formed their own community. New Town included its own school, church, culture and numerous languages, when World War II started, the Federal Government obtained 25,000 acres in the SW part of the Tooele Valley to establish an ordnance depot. In 1993 the scope and mission of the Tooele Army Depot was reduced, the US Army conveyed 40 acres of land, including a newly constructed large-vehicle maintenance structure to the City, who converted it into an industrial complex. In 2013 the UID was purchased by another company and is known as Ninigret Depot. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 21.2 square miles
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Vernon, Utah
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Vernon is a town in Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 236 at the 2000 census. It is the birthplace of World War II Medal of Honor recipient Mervyn Sharp Bennion, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 7.5 square miles, all of it land. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers, according to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Vernon has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated Cfa on climate maps. The Vernon area was settled beginning in 1857, in 1934, a very large incorporated town called Onaqui was created in the area, including Vernon as well as the settlements of Clover and St. John. Vernon was far from the rest of Onaqui, and locals always looked on it as somewhat independent, Vernon residents were granted a petition to incorporate separately on 22 February 1972, and the remaining part of Onaqui was renamed Rush Valley. As of the census of 2000, there were 236 people,77 households, the population density was 31.4 people per square mile. There were 86 housing units at a density of 11.4 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 94. 07% White,0. 42% African American,0. 42% Asian,2. 54% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 66% of the population. 20. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.06 and the average family size was 3.62. In the town, the population was out with 34. 7% under the age of 18,10. 2% from 18 to 24,22. 5% from 25 to 44,21. 6% from 45 to 64. The median age was 30 years, for every 100 females there were 91.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.9 males, the median income for a household in the town was $42,500, and the median income for a family was $43,500. Males had an income of $38,333 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the town was $13,053. About 10. 7% of families and 13. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21. 5% of those under the age of eighteen and 3. 8% of those sixty five or over
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Wendover, Utah
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Wendover is a city in Tooele County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,537 at the 2000 census, with a 2006 estimated population of 1,632, Wendover is on the western border of Utah, and is contiguous with West Wendover, Nevada. Interstate 80 runs just north of both cities, while Interstate 80 Business runs through the two cities, the Wendover Cut-off was the former path of the Victory Highway as well as U. S. Route 40 to Wendover. Today it serves as a road between Wendover and Knolls just to the south of the Interstate. The town was established in 1908 as a stop on the Western Pacific Railroad. The transcontinental telephone line was completed as workers raised the pole at Wendover, Utah on June 27,1914. However, the line was not initiated until January 25,1915, from 1917 to 1939, a Western Pacific subsidiary known as the Deep Creek Railroad also operated into Wendover. The Western Pacific became part of the larger Union Pacific Railroad in 1983, during World War II, the nearby Wendover Army Air Field was a training base for bomber pilots, including the crew of the Enola Gay. The Enola Gay was stationed here until June 1945, recently the Utah Department of Transportation completed an interchange at Aria Boulevard on Interstate 80. Investment is also underway to restore the Wendover Airfield, which is managed by Tooele County. Meanwhile, lodging has increased along Wendover Boulevard in recent years, Tooele County School District has completed Anna Smith Elementary School, which serves the Wendover area. Wendover and Tooele County recently built a joint complex for municipal, the U. S. House of Representatives passed a resolution permitting Wendover to leave Utah and join Nevada in 2002, but the bill was blocked in the U. S. Senate and did not become law. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 6.4 square miles. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Wendover has a semi-arid climate, as of the census of 2000, there were 1,537 people,432 households, and 327 families residing in the city. The population density was 238.9 people per square mile, there were 510 housing units at an average density of 79.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 43. 98% White,1. 17% African American,1. 76% Native American,0. 85% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,43. 59% from other races, and 8. 52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 68. 64% of the population,16. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.56 and the family size was 4.10
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West Jordan, Utah
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West Jordan is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. West Jordan is a growing suburb of Salt Lake City and has a mixed economy. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 103,712, the city occupies the southwest end of the Salt Lake Valley at an elevation of 4,330 feet. Settled in the century, the city has developed into its own regional center. As of 2012, the city has four major retail centers, companies headquartered in West Jordan include Mountain America Credit Union, Lynco Sales & Service, SME Steel, and Cyprus Credit Union. The city has one hospital, Jordan Valley Medical Center, and a campus of Salt Lake Community College. City landmarks include Gardner Village, established in 1850, and South Valley Regional Airport, the airport serves general aviation operations as well as a base for the Utah Army National Guard for Apache and Black Hawk helicopters. West Jordan received its name from Mormon settlers who entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the leadership of their prophet, the name was later simplified to Jordan River. Like its Middle Eastern namesake, the Jordan River flows from a fresh water lake to a salt sea. West Jordan was founded around 1849 on the banks of the Jordan River. One of the first sawmills in the area was built in 1850 in the city by Archibald Gardner, Gardner was a devout Mormon whose legacy can still be seen in modern West Jordan. His collection of mills and houses, now historic, have been renovated into a specialty shopping district known as Gardner Village, early West Jordan relied primarily on agriculture, mills, and mining activity to form the base of its economy. The first leather tannery west of the Mississippi River was constructed in the city in 1851, today, West Jordan is one of the fastest growing cities in Utah. Growth has been phenomenal, beginning in the 1970s and continuing unabated since. The population grew from 4,221 in 1970 to 27,327 in 1980,42,892 in 1990, Sears chose the city as its first Sears Grand location, a new store concept, which opened its doors in 2003 at the Jordan Landing shopping center. Transportation issues along with school overcrowding are the top concerns as it attempts to deal with rapid population growth. Future plans for the city include the Mountain View Corridor highway, old downtown West Jordan is in the process of being reconstructed as a transit-oriented development called Briarwood. As of 2014, the library and TRAX light-rail have been completed and opened, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.9 square miles, all of it land
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West Valley City, Utah
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West Valley City is a city in Salt Lake County and a suburb of Salt Lake City in the U. S. state of Utah. The population was 129,480 at the 2010 census, making it the second-largest city in Utah, the city incorporated in 1980 from a large, quickly growing unincorporated area, which was variously known as Granger, Hunter, Chesterfield, and Redwood. It is home to the Maverik Center and USANA Amphitheater, the earliest known residents of the western Salt Lake Valley were Native American bands of the Ute and Shoshoni tribes. The first European people to live in the area were the Latter-day Saints, the Euro-Americans arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The area was first staked out by settler Joseph Harker and his family in the area named as over Jordan. The Granger area was settled by Welsh Latter-day Saints who had come to Utah with Dan Jones in 1849, irrigation systems and agriculture were developed in the area, and it was Elias Smith who proposed the areas name on account of its successful farming. At other times high alkali content made farming difficult, but there were enough Latter-day Saints to form a separate Granger Ward in 1884, Granger and vicinity had about 1,000 people in 1930. Hunter was not settled until 1876 and this settlement was started by Rasmus Nielsen, Edward Rushton, August Larsen and about seven others along with their families. Irrigation began in 1881 and the crop was fruit trees. The city began to experience growth in the 1970s, when the area that is now West Valley City consisted of the four separate communities of Hunter, Granger, Chesterfield. These four unincorporated areas merged in 1980 to form the present-day city, during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, West Valley City was the official venue for mens and womens ice hockey. On May 19,2011, the city unveiled a plan to create a downtown area for the city over the course of 10 years, building on plans. It will be known as Fairbourne Station and will consist of approximately 40 acres, Valley Fair Mall and the Maverik Center are located nearby, as is I-215. As of 2016 of the development is incomplete, with the TRAX line having opened in 2011 and the hotel in 2012, notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was arrested in Granger on August 16,1975, on a routine traffic stop. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 35.5 square miles of which 35.4 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles is water. The Oquirrh Mountains loom over the city to the west, while the Jordan River marks the eastern boundary, the mayor is a voting member of the City Council. The West Valley City Council meets each Tuesday night at 6,30 PM, City Hall is located at 3600 South Constitution Boulevard. The mayor and six councilors are elected to four-year terms, mayoral elections are held the same year as three of the councilors
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Copperton, Utah
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Copperton is a CDP and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, located at the mouth of Bingham Canyon, about 17 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The township boundaries include an area than that of the CDP. Copperton was established in 1926, by the Utah Copper Company as a residential area and it emerged as a showplace for company-subsidized family life. Construction of housing ended in the 1930s and company furnished housing ended in 1955, after that a private real estate developer managed the homes for employees. As of the 2010 Census, Copperton has a population of 826, Copperton is the only mining town remaining for the Bingham Canyon Mine after Lark was torn down in 1980. Currently, only a handful of work for the mine. The town’s history is linked to the mine. Climate is characterized by high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is Cfa
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Dugway, Utah
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Dugway is a census-designated place in Tooele County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,016, at the 2000 census, Dugway is synonymous with the United States Armys giant testing facility, Dugway Proving Ground. The housing area designated for military and civilian personnel is referred to as English Village, the name Dugway comes from a technique to dig a trench along a hillside to keep a wagon from tipping. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 5.2 square miles. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Dugway has a semi-arid climate, as of the census of 2000, there were 2,016 people,343 households, and 263 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 387.4 people per square mile, there were 572 housing units at an average density of 109. 9/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 63. 10% White,15. 03% African American,8. 43% Native American,2. 83% Asian,0. 50% Pacific Islander,1. 88% from other races, and 8. 23% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 75% of the population,21. 9% of all households were made up of individuals and 0. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.01 and the family size was 3.59. In the CDP, the population was out with 34. 4% under the age of 18,33. 4% from 18 to 24,21. 6% from 25 to 44,10. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 20 years, for every 100 females there were 47.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 48.5 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $49,306, and the median income for a family was $53,148. Males had an income of $40,565 versus $17,695 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $11,023, about 5. 4% of families and 10. 0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15. 7% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over
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Emigration Canyon, Utah
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Emigration Canyon is a CDP, township and canyon in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, located east of Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Range. Beginning at the end of the University of Utah, the canyon itself heads east and northeast between Salt Lake City and Morgan County. The boundaries of the CDP and township are coextensive, they do not extend to the county line, as of the 2010 census, the population was 1,567. Emigration Canyon was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and it is significant in Utah history as the original route used by pioneers entering Utah. It was part of the Hastings Cutoff route used by the Donner Party in 1846, as Brigham Young looked over the canyon, he declared, This is the right place. These words have become famous in Utah history, the event is commemorated with This Is The Place Heritage Park at the mouth of the canyon. Throughout Emigration Canyon, there are historic markers designating camps, trail markers. One example of these milestones is called Lost Creek Camp, hogle Zoo, the main zoo in the Salt Lake City area, also lies at the mouth of the canyon. Emigration Canyon is home to Camp Kostopulos and the Kostopulos Dream Foundation, established in 1967, Camp Kostopulos is a summer camp for disabled children, teens, and Adults. It is adjacent to the historic Ruths Diner, the 8-mile-long Emigration Canyon road has become a popular destination for cyclists, with its gradual climb and quick descent, because of its convenient location next to Salt Lake City. Mormon Trail Media related to Emigration Canyon, Utah at Wikimedia Commons Emigration Canyon Online Emigration Canyon Trails Master Plan Utah. com
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Erda, Utah
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Erda is a census-designated place in Tooele County, Utah, United States, located just south of Stansbury Park and just north of the county seat of Tooele. The population was 4,642 at the 2010 census, a significant increase from the 2000 figure of 2,473, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 22.5 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,473 people,697 households, the population density was 110.1 people per square mile. There were 722 housing units at a density of 32. 2/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 96. 93% White,0. 28% African American,0. 36% Native American,0. 32% Asian,0. 53% Pacific Islander,0. 61% from other races, and 0. 97% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 25% of the population,9. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.55 and the family size was 3.81. In the CDP, the population was out with 38. 0% under the age of 18,8. 1% from 18 to 24,28. 9% from 25 to 44,21. 1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 30 years, for every 100 females there were 105.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.6 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $62,286, and the median income for a family was $65,494. Males had an income of $42,386 versus $30,574 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,649, about 3. 5% of families and 3. 6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2. 3% of those under age 18 and 9. 8% of those age 65 or over
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Granite, Utah
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Granite is a census-designated place in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, adjoining the City of Sandy on the east. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 2,018, Salt Lake County has designated a Granite “Community Council” for purposes of planning and development. The Granite Community Council includes the area within the CDP as well as the rest of Little Cottonwood Canyon, extending to Snowbird, Granite began as the site of the stone quarry for the Salt Lake Temple in 1859. By 1877 there were also several farmers in the area and an LDS ward was organized, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles, all of it land. The majority of the land extends into Little Cottonwood Canyon, as of the census of 2000, there were 2,018 people,609 households, and 537 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,374.0 people per square mile, there were 642 housing units at an average density of 437. 1/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 95. 29% White,0. 59% African American,0. 30% Native American,1. 59% Asian,0. 35% Pacific Islander,0. 64% from other races, and 1. 24% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 83% of the population,8. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 2. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.31 and the family size was 3.51. In the CDP, the population was out with 28. 5% under the age of 18,11. 1% from 18 to 24,22. 4% from 25 to 44,31. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 109.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.5 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $108,343, and the median income for a family was $109,496. Males had an income of $67,188 versus $35,588 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $40,098, none of the families and 0. 9% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64
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Kearns, Utah
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Kearns is a township and census-designated place in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. Senator Thomas Kearns, it had a population of 35,731 at the 2010 Census and this was a 6.2 percent increase over the 2000 figure of 33,659. Kearns is home to the Utah Olympic Oval, a speed skating oval built for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Actor and entertainer Palmer Scott was raised in Kearns from 1956 to 1980, construction of the base involved building airplane runways and hangars, with several taxiways and a large parking apron and a control tower. Several hundred buildings were constructed and quickly assembled. Most base buildings, not meant for use, were constructed of temporary or semi-permanent materials. Most support buildings sat on concrete foundations but were of frame construction clad in more than plywood. The thousands of soldiers and airmen stationed there temporarily made the one of the largest cities in the state. On 15 August 1946 the Air Force inactivated the base, the presence of roads and other infrastructure made the area attractive to developers. Houses and business sprang up rapidly on what had just a few years earlier been farmland, today only two buildings remain of the former Air Base. The airfield part of Kearns Army Air Base today is known as South Valley Regional Airport, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.8 square miles, all of it land. This climatic region is typified by large temperature differences, with warm to hot summers. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Kearns has a continental climate. As of the census of 2010, there were 35,731 people,9,789 households, the population density was 7,444 people per square mile. There were 10,169 housing units at a density of 2,118. 5/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 70. 29% White,1. 39% African American,1. 44% Native American,2. 08% Asian,2. 64% Pacific Islander,18. 72% from other races, and 3. 45% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 32. 83% of the population,10. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.65 and the family size was 3.88
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Magna, Utah
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Magna is a census-designated place and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 26,505 at the 2010 census, an increase over the 2000 figure of 22,770. Settlement of the began in 1851 shortly after the Mormon pioneers reached the Salt Lake Valley. Early farmers settled in 1868 at the base of the northern Oquirrh Mountains, by 1900, there were about 20 families in the area. One of the first Pleasant Green pioneers was Abraham Coon, who established a livestock ranch, the canyon is now known as Coon Canyon, and Coon Creek flowing out of it, is one of the major Oquirrh Mountain drainages. Coon Creek flows north and west through Magna to the Great Salt Lake, the Pleasant Green Cemetery located in the Oquirrh foothills, at about 3500 South, was established in 1883. In 1890, in response to a law requiring all children to free public education. In the early 1900s, copper mining activity in the Oquirrhs began transforming the Pleasant Green area from a hamlet to an industrial community. Jackling established the Utah Copper Company, which later became Kennecott Copper Corp, in 1906, the company began constructing its Magna Mill. He chose the name “Magna” from the Latin word meaning “great” or “superior, boston Consolidated Copper constructed a second mill in the area in 1909. In 1911, the merged and the mill was renamed Arthur Mill. Construction workers lived in a settlement known as “Ragtown. Several substantial homes were built in the tent city and later moved to the present community, as the mills began operating, some local farmers traded in their plows for a steady company paycheck and began moving in to work at the mills. In 1906, the name was changed from Pleasant Green to Magna, because postal officials were uncomfortable with the old names similarity to Pleasant Grove. By 1909, the Hawthorne School had been built in the eastern Magna area, in 1908, the Webster School was built at the west end of what is now Main Street. In 1924, the first building of the present Cyprus High School was completed, over the years, buildings and additions have been constructed on the campus. At the time, commuting to work by automobile was not practical, few mine workers had cars and cross valley roads were in marginal condition. Workers lived in the town and walked to the mills, downtown Magna included churches, saloons, fraternal halls, and stores
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Snowbird, Utah
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Snowbird is an unincorporated community in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake County, Utah, U. S. It is most famous for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, a skiing and snowboarding area. The development of Little Cottonwood Canyon and the town of Alta dates to the 19th Century, a U. S. Army soldier first prospected for silver there in 1869. Mining became a local industry, and Little Cottonwood Canyon became one of the largest producers of silver ore in the Wasatch Mountains. Known as the Emma Mine, the soldiers find eventually produced more than $3.8 million in silver. At its peak,8,000 people lived and worked in the narrow canyon, the entire town was later destroyed by a series of avalanches. The resort is a multi-facility winter and summer resort, primarily known for its winter powder skiing and snowboarding, during other seasons Snowbird also hosts hikers, mountain bikers, fishermen, and other mountain vacationers. The facilities include ski lifts, hotels, condominiums, spa facilities, restaurants, other resort-related retail businesses, the resort operates almost entirely on National Forest Service land – the resort owners only have ownership rights to a relatively small part of it. The originator of the Snowbird resort concept was Ted Johnson, who had managed the Alta Lodge in the town of Alta at the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon for about a decade. He had explored the terrain below Alta in the Peruvian Gulch, Johnson met Dick Bass, a Texas oilman, in 1969, and the two of them partnered to create the Snowbird resort, which opened in 1971. In 1974, Johnson sold his interest in Snowbird to Bass, on May 12,2014 an ownership change was announced. Businessman Ian Cumming became the majority owner, in partnership with Bass, the management of the resort since then has been marked by cost-cutting measures including various closures of lifts and restaurants, and closure of the tunnel on weekdays. Snowbird resort is a ski and summer resort located in the heart of the Wasatch National Forest on the eastern border of the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy. It is 29 miles from Salt Lake City International Airport,24 miles from downtown Salt Lake City and 4 miles east of the suburb of Sandy, the resort first opened in December 1971. Snowbird shares Little Cottonwood Canyon with Alta Ski Area to the east, just up the canyon over a ridge separates the two. The installation of Baldy Express in 2002 allowed access to Alta from the Basin, other access points between the two resorts exist as well. The offer is open to skiers only, as a result of Altas skiers-only policy, both areas receive more than 500 inches of snowfall per year, due to lake-effect enhancement from the Great Salt Lake, making them the second snowiest ski areas in the United States. Another benefit of being East of the salt lake is that salt from the lake provides the condensation nuclei that creates ice pellet snow that doesnt pack like normal snowflakes
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Stansbury Park, Utah
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Stansbury Park is a census-designated place in Tooele County, Utah, United States. The population was 5,145 at the 2010 Census, it was 2,385 at the 2000 census, Stansbury Park is located in the northern end of Tooele Valley at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains. Traveling by Interstate 80, Stansbury Park is 35 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, Stansbury Park was proposed by the original developer as a planned community with a lake for sailing and canoeing, an eighteen-hole golf course, clubhouse, swimming pool, and parks. Although the original developer withdrew from the scene in the 1980s due to bankruptcy, the parks throughout Stansbury Park include baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard park, and an astronomical observatory. A large park northwest of Utah State Route 138 is being developed, a natural lake exists on the northern edge of the area, it is fed by a spring at its southeast end. The outflow water from this lake is piped around the Oquirrh Mountain Range to the Kennecott Companys copper mine refinery operation, the 18-hole public golf course runs through the center of Stansbury Park. All the par 3 holes are over water and 16 of the holes have water hazards, during the winter, Stansbury Park is often the only course open in the greater Salt Lake City area. The course has a clubhouse with food service, a pro shop, putting green, the Harmons astronomical observatory, the Stansbury Park Observing Complex, is at the north end near the skateboard park. The observatory boasts a 40 cm Ealing reflector, an 81 cm reflector, the facility is owned and operated by the Salt Lake Astronomical Society. Stansbury Park has three schools, two elementary schools and one high school. Stansbury Elementary opened in 1979, Rose Springs Elementary opened in 2005, Stansbury High School, just southwest of Rose Springs Elementary School, opened in August 2009. In the fall of 2017, a new school will open by the new cemetery. It is proposed to be called Sterling Elementary, as of 2009, there were five church buildings in Stansbury Park, all units of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The area includes several businesses, clustered in two developments at the southeast and northeast corners of the area along Utah State Route 36, as of 2013, the community is not incorporated, thus all municipal services are provided by Tooele County. Stansbury Park receives mail service from the Tooele Post Office, ZIP84074, drinking water for Stansbury Park comes from deep wells about two miles southeast of the park, east of Utah State Route 36. Sewer service is provided by a complex northwest of the community. These services are administered by the Stansbury Park Improvement District, woodland Park, near the southeast end of Stansbury Park, contains trees which existed before the development started. The park area was the site of a horse stable complex before
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White City, Utah
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White City is a township and census-designated place in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The township is an enclave of the City of Sandy, the population was 5,407 at the 2010 census, a modest decrease from the 2000 population of 5,988. White City is located at 40°34′2″N 111°51′42″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 0.9 square miles, all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 5,988 people,1,796 households, the population density was 6,912.5 people per square mile. There were 1,834 housing units at a density of 2,117. 2/sq mi. The racial makeup of the township was 92. 30% White,0. 47% African American,0. 67% Native American,0. 82% Asian,0. 82% Pacific Islander,2. 94% from other races, and 1. 99% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 7. 35% of the population,10. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 2. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.33 and the family size was 3.55. In the township the population was out with 30. 9% under the age of 18,11. 2% from 18 to 24,29. 2% from 25 to 44,19. 9% from 45 to 64. The median age was 30 years, for every 100 females there were 102.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.2 males, the median income for a household in the township was $49,103, and the median income for a family was $50,156. Males had an income of $34,871 versus $25,743 for females. The per capita income for the township was $17,148, about 3. 1% of families and 3. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1. 9% of those under age 18 and 4. 9% of those age 65 or over
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Census
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A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population, the term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses, other common censuses include agriculture, business, and traffic censuses. United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, the word is of Latin origin, during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service. Current administrative data systems allow for other approaches to enumeration with the level of detail but raise concerns about privacy. A census can be contrasted with sampling in which information is obtained only from a subset of a population, typically main population estimates are updated by such intercensal estimates. Modern census data are used for research, business marketing, and planning. Census counts are necessary to adjust samples to be representative of a population by weighting them as is common in opinion polling, similarly, stratification requires knowledge of the relative sizes of different population strata which can be derived from census enumerations. In some countries, the census provides the official used to apportion the number of elected representatives to regions. In many cases, a carefully chosen random sample can provide accurate information than attempts to get a population census. A census is often construed as the opposite of a sample as its intent is to count everyone in a rather than a fraction. However, population censuses rely on a frame to count the population. This is the way to be sure that everyone has been included as otherwise those not responding would not be followed up on. The fundamental premise of a census is that the population is not known, the use of a sampling frame is counterintuitive as it suggests that the population size is already known. However, a census is also used to collect data on the individuals in the nation. This process of sampling marks the difference between historical census, which was a house to house process or the product of a decree. The sampling frame used by census is almost always an address register, thus it is not known if there is anyone resident or how many people there are in each household. Depending on the mode of enumeration, a form is sent to the householder, as a preliminary to the dispatch of forms, census workers will check any address problems on the ground. While it may seem straightforward to use the postal service file for this purpose, a particular problem is what are termed communal establishments which category includes student residences, religious orders, homes for the elderly, people in prisons etc
