Heber City, Utah Heber City, Utah Website City of Heber City Heber City is a town/city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.
Heber City was established by English emigrants who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the late 1850s, and is titled after the Mormon apostle Heber C.
The initial Heber City town square is positioned on the west side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 North and presently homes town/city offices as well as the historic Wasatch Stake Tabernacle and Heber Amusement Hall.
The town/city was largely pastoral, focusing largely on dairy farms and cattle ranching, and has since turn into a bedroom improve for Orem, Provo, Park City and Salt Lake City.
Heber City is presently governed by Mayor Alan Mc - Donald along with City Council Members Kelleen Potter, Robert Patterson, Heidi Franco, Jeff Bradshaw, and Erik Rowland.
Within the town/city limits are Heber Valley, Old Mill, and J.R.
Smith Elementary Schools, Timpanogos Intermediate School, Rocky Mountain Middle School, Wasatch High School, and Wasatch Alternative High School.
An extra school in the Heber Valley is Midway Elementary School.
Utah Valley University maintains a satellite ground just north of Heber City along the US-40 corridor.
Heber City supports four LDS stakes, as well as congregations of Southern Baptists, Catholics as part of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Heber City was first settled in 1859 by Robert Broadhead, James Davis and James Gurr.
Murdock became the bishop over the Latter-day Saints in Heber City and vicinity. Heber City is positioned at 40 30 24 N 111 24 44 W (40.506793, -111.412292), at an altitude of 5595 feet.
The region in which Heber City is positioned is known as the Wasatch Back.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.5 square miles (8.9 km2), all of it land.
Heber City is in the neighborhood of three large reservoirs, Jordanelle, Deer Creek, and Strawberry.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Heber City has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Heber City has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Utah.
Local developers and company leaders cite that there are not enough jobs in the town/city itself (as 27% of inhabitants commute to Park City or Salt Lake City for work) and wish to advancement the city's self-reliance.
The winter season features cross-country and downhill skiing, as well as snowboarding and snowmobiling on a several trails and the close-by ski resorts of Park City.
Heber is also home to the Heber Valley Historic Railroad (HVRR) which was known as the Heber Creeper before 1989.
Heber City's youth are working largely in the encircling golf courses, restaurants, and specialty shops in Heber City and the encircling area.
The adult populace work mostly in Park City, Salt Lake City, Provo and Orem.
Skiing and Snowboarding is very prominent among Heber City's youth, and many citizens go to Park City mountain resort, Canyons, or Deer Valley, all of which are in Park City.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $45,394, and the median income for a family was $47,481.
Interstate 80 is positioned roughly eighteen miles north of the town/city and can be accessed via Highway 40 while Interstate 15 can be accessed via Highway 189 through Provo Canyon and is roughly twenty-five miles away.
A typical drive to downtown Salt Lake City is 45 to 60 minutes.
Heber City was connected to Provo by a 32-mile long barns line.
The Heber City Municipal Airport, or Russ Mc - Donald Field, FAA identifier 36 - U, is positioned two miles south of the city, near the junction of U.S.
During the winter ski season, and especially the Sundance Film Festival, the airport is crowded with corporate jets as it is the closest airport to Park City.
The nearest airport with commercial airline service is Salt Lake City International Airport.
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