Midvale, Utah Midvale, Utah State Street in Midvale as it passes underneath the TRAX Blue Line.
State Street in Midvale as it passes underneath the TRAX Blue Line.
Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.
Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.
State Utah Midvale is a town/city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 5.8 square miles (15.1 km ), all of it land.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Midvale has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. As of the census of 2000, there were 27,029 citizens , 10,089 homeholds, and 6,638 families living in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 82.44% White, 1.18% African American, 1.29% Native American, 1.85% Asian, 0.58% Pacific Islander, 9.96% from other competitions, and 2.71% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread 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, and 9.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $40,130, and the median income for a family was $43,322.
About 9.4% of families and 13.1% of the populace 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.
Midvale Fire and Police are furnished by arrangement with the Unified Police and Fire of Salt Lake County.
Just like the wandering Ute bands before them, Utah's Pioneer pioneer began with a dependence on the territory and the landscape; thus, early pioneers were quick to recognize the richness inherent in the Salt Lake Valley.
Such was the beginning of Midvale City.
The easterly part of the town/city forming agricultural neighborhoods, and the areas forming a quarrying and milling settlement, each relying on the other for sustenance, protection, civil interaction and commerce.
The Union Fort region of Midvale City began as a center of agriculture.
The Old Town region of Midvale City began as a center of quarrying and industry.
The region was then known as Bingham Junction, and was an meaningful midpoint along the rail between quarrying in Little Cottonwood Canyon to the east and Bingham Canyon to the west.
With the discernment of silver in Little Cottonwood Canyon and in Bingham Canyon, new citizens rushed to be a part of the burgeoning company and trade located in the middle valley in Midvale City.
Along with trade came the hotels, boarding homes, saloons, schools, and the citizens who made Midvale City's Old Town a center of the community.
Some scenes from the mini-series The Stand as well as scenes from the movies Halloween 4, Gentlemen Broncos, and The Sandlot, were filmed in downtown Midvale, including the interior of an old fashioned drugstore by the name of Vincent Drug.
Climate Summary for Midvale, Utah Municipalities and communities of Salt Lake County, Utah, United States State of Utah
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