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Location in Sevier County and the state of Utah.
Salina (/s la n / s -ly-n ) is a town/city in Sevier County, Utah, United States.
In June 1891 the settlement was connected to the state's barns system, and that year the central region was incorporated as a town.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.2 square miles (15.9 km ), all of it land.
Salina's annual rain averages around 7.82 inches (20 cm), which causes the region to be classified as desert. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,393 citizens , 808 homeholds, and 631 families living in the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 35.2% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 17.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $34,886, and the median income for a family was $38,816.
In June 1891 a stockyards began operating to the area, and soon the town was the transit end between the region and the rest of Utah, which caused a boom in the town's businesses and its populace size.
By the end of the nineteenth century the town had a journal (the Central Utah Press), a town/city hall and library, and an eight-room elementary schoolhouse, along with a plethora of saloons, boarding homes and dancehalls. During the Great Depression a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was established in the region east of Salina, and its attendees worked on dams, roads and recreation sites.
Federal agency financing was used to construct a new town/city hall and library, an improved culinary water system, and a citywide wastewater collection/disposal system.
In the 1940s the Salina Livestock Auction and the Salina Turkey Plant (now part of Norbest) were established, both of which are still operating as of 2009. The Convulsion Canyon mine continued to grow, and became a part of Arch Coal, Inc., known as the SUFCO Mine. SUFCO is presently owned by Bowie Resource Partners. Salina is presently attempting to precarious a 400-acre (162-hectare) commercial site south of town, at the intersection of I-70 and US 89.
Salina is governed by a Mayor and five-person City Council.
It is directed under the Salina City Code, last updated in 2002. The town/city operates the following departments: City Police; Planning and Zoning; Justice Court; Maintenance; Library; Recreation Program; Swimming Pool; Fire Department; and the Blackhawk Arena.
The town/city has one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school and is positioned in the Sevier School District.
The nearest college is a branch of Snow College positioned in Richfield, 20 miles (32 km) south of Salina.
The Salina municipal library is positioned at 90 W.
Salina is at the northern edge of an extensive ATV trail which covers the southern portion of Utah, the Paiute Trail. The Richfield Airport, 22 miles (35 km) south of Salina, has a paved runway of 6,645 ft (2,025 m). Interstate 70, US Highway 50 and US Highway 89 intersect in the city, providing surface access to outside areas.
The end of Utah State Route 24 is in Salina.
Salina Utah POW massacre https://media.utah.edu/UHE/s/SALINA.html Media Solutions, the University of Utah's Office of Information Technology, accessed 29 July 2009 Salina Utah Massacre |author= Mike Rose "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Commercial Center on Salina City website https://salinacity.org Salina City website, accessed 29 July 2009 https://atvutah.com/southern/paiutemap.htm Paiute Trail website, accessed 29 July 2009 https://salinacity.org Salina City website, accessed 29 July 2009 Municipalities and communities of Sevier County, Utah, United States
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Cities in Sevier County, Utah - Cities in Utah - Populated places established in 1864
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