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Salt Lake Valley is a 500-square-mile (1,300 km 2) valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably Murray , Sandy , South Jordan , West Jordan , and West Valley City ; its total population is 1,029,655 as of 2010.
Salt Lake City Temple under construction. Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes. At the time of the founding of Salt Lake City the valley was within the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone, who had their seasonal camps along streams within the valley and in adjacent valleys. [1]
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 (essentially the entire Jordan River watershed north of the Traverse Mountains). In addition, the northwestern section of the county includes part of the Great Salt Lake.
The mountains near Salt Lake City are easily visible from the city and have sharp vertical relief caused by ancient earthquakes, with a maximum difference of 7,099 feet (2164 m) being achieved with the rise of Twin Peaks from the Salt Lake Valley floor. [68] The Salt Lake Valley floor is the ancient lakebed of Lake Bonneville, which existed at ...
Photo taken by ESA Sentinel-2 of Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is located in a large valley, the Salt Lake Valley, separated by the eastern Wasatch Mountains, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. Salt Lake City is located at 40°45'17" North, 111°53'33" West (40.754700, -111.892622). [1]
Pleasant Valley; R. Rhodes Valley; Ripple Valley; Roosevelt Valley; Snyderville Basin, (Round Valley (Utah)) Rush Valley; S. Salt Lake Valley; Salt Valley; San Rafael Valley; Sanpete Valley; Scipio Valley; Skull Valley (Utah) Snake Valley (Great Basin) Spanish Valley, Utah; T. Tooele Valley; Tule Valley; U. Upper Bear Valley Lower Bear Valley ...
The Salt Lake Valley was founded first upon an agrarian system and later combined with non-agrarian techniques by way of manufacturing and the use of the railroad. [34] The early agrarian development began by appointing crews to "plow, plant, survey, build fences, saw timber, build a public shelter, and explore [ 35 ] ".
First Encampment Park is a public pocket park in the Liberty Wells neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah. It is near the location where the initial group of Mormon pioneers spent their first night in what was then Mexico's Salt Lake Valley, on July 22, 1847. Meant to honor this first encampment in the valley, the park was dedicated on July 22 ...