South Jordan, Utah South Jordan, Utah South Jordan City Hall The first map is a map of Utah with a colored in section in the middle representing where Salt Lake County is located.
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Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.
Website South Jordan City South Jordan is a town/city in the U.S.
The town/city lies in the Salt Lake Valley between the 9,000-foot (2,700 m) peaks of the Oquirrh Mountains and the 12,000-foot (3,700 m) peaks of the Wasatch Mountains and is part of the Salt Lake City urbane area.
The Jordan River flows through the middle of the valley and the town/city has a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) section of the Jordan River Parkway that includes fishing ponds, trails, parks and natural surrounding.
Salt Lake County fair grounds and equestrian park, 67-acre (27 ha) Oquirrh Lake and 27 other parks are positioned inside the city.
The town/city was established 18 miles (29 km) 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 quickly growing bedroom improve of Salt Lake City.
Kennecott Land, a territory evolution company, has recently begun assembly on the master-planned Daybreak Community for the entire half of South Jordan.
Daybreak could potentially double South Jordan's population.
South Jordan is the first town/city in the world with two temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Jordan River Utah Temple and Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple).
To around 1350 A.D., the Fremont citizens settled into villages and farmed corn and squash. Changes in climatic conditions to a cooler, drier reconstructionand the boss into the region of ancestors of the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone, led to the disappearance of the Fremont citizens . When European pioneer arrived, there were no permanent Native American settlements in the Salt Lake Valley, but the region bordered a several tribes the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone to the north, the Timpanogots band of the Utes to the south in Utah Valley, and the Goshutes to the west in Tooele Valley. In October 1824, Provost's party was flourishing into an Indian camp somewhere along the Jordan River north of Utah Lake.
On July 22, 1847, an advanced party of the first Mormon pioneers entered the valley and immediately began to irrigate territory and explore the region with a view to establishing new settlements. Alexander Beckstead, a blacksmith from Ontario, Canada, moved his family to the West Jordan region in 1849, and became the first of his trade in the south Salt Lake Valley.
He helped dig the first ditch to divert water from the Jordan River, powering Archibald Gardner's 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 dugout 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 river water along the base of the west bluff.
In 1863, the South Jordan LDS Branch was ordered as a branch of the West Jordan Ward, giving South Jordan its name. The Branch consisted of just nine families.
A school was assembled 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.
In 1876, work was instead of on the South Jordan Canal which took water out of the Jordan River in Bluffdale and brought it above the river bluffs for the first time. As a result of the new canal, most of the families moved up away from the river onto the "flats" above the river which they could now irrigate.
In 1881, the Utah and Salt Lake Canal was completed.
Sugar beets were introduced to South Jordan around 1910.
A big celebration was held on January 14, 1914, to memorialize the arrival of electrical power, the addition of a water tank and supply fitness for indoor pumping and a new park for South Jordan. By the 1930s, the region needed a water tank to store water for inhabitants residing further west.
In 1978, the town/city moved to a mayor-council form of government and assumed small-town oversight of police, fire, road and building inspections from Salt Lake County. A bus loaded with 38 pupils from South Jordan, Riverton, and Bluffdale crossed in front of an oncoming train that was obscured by fog and snow.
The bus was broadsided killing the bus driver and 23 pupils. The concern about bus safety from the South Jordan accident led to shifts in state and eventually federal law mandating that buses stop and open the doors before proceeding into a barns crossing. The same barns crossing was the site of many other crashes in the following years with the last deadly crash occurring on December 31, 1995, when three teens died while crossing the tracks in their car. The crossing was finally closed, but not until crashes occurred in 1997 and 2002. Jordan River Utah Temple In 1950, Salt Lake County had 489,000 acres (198,000 ha) devoted to farming. But by 1992, due to increasing population, territory devoted to farming had decreased to 108,000 acres (44,000 ha). As a result of this urbanization, South Jordan's economy went from agrarian to being a bedroom improve of Salt Lake City.
Kennecott Land began a evolution in 2004 called Daybreak, which is a 4,000-acre (1,600 ha) prepared improve that will contain more than 20,000 homes and contains commercial and retail space. In 1981, the LDS Jordan River Utah Temple was completed.
In 2009, the LDS Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple was instead of and became the second temple to be assembled in South Jordan.
South Jordan is the first town/city in the world to have two LDS Temples, Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple and the Jordan River Utah Temple, the second town/city being Provo, Utah. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.1 square miles (57 km2), of which, 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2), 0.34 percent, is water. South Jordan is positioned in the southwestern portion of the Salt Lake Valley.
The town/city lies between the Oquirrh Mountains to the west, West Jordan to the north, the Jordan River and Sandy to the east, Draper to the southeast, Riverton to the south, and Herriman to the southwest.
The relative flatness of South Jordan is due to lacustrine sediments of a pleistocene lake called Lake Bonneville.
Lake Bonneville existed from 75,000 to 8,000 years ago and its peak some 30,000 years ago, the lake reached an altitude of 5,200 feet (1,600 m) above sea level and had a surface region of 19,800 square miles (51,000 km2). The altitude of South Jordan ranges from roughly 4,300 feet (1,300 m) near the Jordan River in the east and rises gently to the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains at 5,200 feet (1,600 m). A eminent exception is a bluff at the edge of the Daybreak Community which is an old sandbar of Lake Bonneville.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $91,199, Salt Lake County was $58,004 and Utah was $56,330.
In Salt Lake County, 10.3% of the populace were below the poverty line and 10.8% of the populace in Utah was below the poverty line.
Of those citizens 25 years and older in the city, 96.8% were high school graduates compared to 86.8% in Salt Lake County and 87.7% in Utah.
Those attaining a college degree were 36.4% of South Jordan's population. Statistics presented by the Utah Department of Public Safety's Bureau of Criminal Identification showed a steady trend in the South Jordan crime rate between 2000 and 2008.
The 2008 rate for index crimes in Salt Lake County was 5,290 per 100,000 and 3,529 per 100,000 for the entire State of Utah. In 2010, South Jordan had a total of 57 total law enforcement employees for a rate of 1.13 employees per 1,000 residents.
The town/city has 27 municipal parks and playgrounds ranging in size from 0.39-acre (0.16 ha) Bolton Park in the north-west part of the town/city to the 59-acre (24 ha) Riverfront Park along the Jordan River and the 80-acre (32 ha) City Park along Redwood Road.
Other recreational facilities owned by South Jordan City include the Aquatic and Fitness center, Community Center providing the senior programs, Mulligan's two miniature golf and two nine-hole executive golf courses and an outside ice skating rink next to City Hall. Two trails meander through South Jordan.
The Bingham Creek Trail starts in the northwest part of the town/city and travels 0.5 miles (0.80 km) North-East until it reaches the West Jordan border. A 3.5-mile (5.6 km) section of the Jordan River Parkway trail runs through the town/city from northern edge of the town/city all the way to the southern edge.
Salt Lake County operates the 120-acre (49 ha) Equestrian Park that sits contiguous to South Jordan City Park.
Of the fish they catch, anglers can only keep trout. The lake and the encircling park territory are privately owned, but open to the public, with future plans to turn it over to South Jordan City.
Privately owned, but open to the public, Glenmoor Golf course is inside town/city limits. Salt Lake County-owned Mountain View Golf Course is 0.3 miles (0.48 km) north in West Jordan and Sandy-owned River Oaks Golf Course borders the Jordan River in Sandy. South Jordan has a council-manager form of government.
Mia Love, a Republican, represents South Jordan as part of Utah's 4th congressional precinct of the United States House of Representatives.
Aaron Osmond, a Republican, represents South Jordan as part of the 10th Utah Senate District in the Utah Senate and has reported he will step down in December, 2015. Rich Cunningham, a Republican, represents South Jordan as part of 50th Utah House District of the Utah House of Representatives and is hoping to replace Osmond in the Senate. Salt Lake Community College, Jordan Campus South Jordan lies inside Jordan School District.
The precinct has six elementary schools, two middle schools (South Jordan Middle and Elk Ridge Middle) and four high schools (Bingham High School, Herriman High School, Itineris Early College High School and Valley High (an alternative school)) serving the pupils of South Jordan. In addition, there is Paradigm enhance charter high school, Early Light Academy enhance charter elementary and three private schools (American Heritage, Mountain Heritage Academy and Stillwater Academy).
Salt Lake Community College's Jordan Campus is positioned on the boundary between of South Jordan and West Jordan.
The Jordan Campus offers general education classes as well as all of the college's community science courses. Jordan School District's Applied Technology Center and Itineris Early College High School are also positioned on campus. Salt Lake Community College's Miller Campus is positioned in Sandy next to the border with South Jordan and is home to the college's Culinary Institute, Miller Business Resource Center for corporate training programs, and training facilities for the Utah Department of Public Safety. The private college in South Jordan is the Roseman University of Health Sciences, which homes schools of pharmacy, dentistry, and an online accelerated nursing program. Interstate 15, a twelve-lane motorway, is positioned on the easterly edge of the town/city and provides two interchanges inside town/city limits at 10600 South and 11400 South.
Bangerter Highway (State Route 154), a six-lane expressway, traverses the center of the town/city with interchanges at 9800 South, 10400 South and 11400 South.
TRAX train in Salt Lake City South Jordan is served by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) bus fitness and UTA's TRAX light rail Red Line. The Red Line joins the TRAX line running to downtown Salt Lake City and the University of Utah.
The Daybreak South Station is positioned at 11400 South and has 600 park and ride spaces.
Two other stations are positioned inside West Jordan at the town/city boundary with South Jordan, the 5600 West Station and the 4800 West Station. The travel time between the Daybreak South Station to downtown Salt Lake City is roughly 60 minutes. UTA's Front - Runner commuter rail fitness has a station at South Jordan's easterly edge at 10200 South.
Electric service to South Jordan inhabitants is provided by Rocky Mountain Power.
South Jordan town/city owns the water distribution system.
South Jordan City contracts out to Allied Waste Industries for curbside pickup of homehold garbage; recyclables are picked up once a week. The Intermountain Riverton Hospital, owned by Intermountain Healthcare, is a 58-bed, full-service hospital in Riverton that also contains a satellite facility for Primary Children's Medical Center. Jordan Valley Medical Center, owned by Iasis Healthcare, is a 183-bed, full-service hospital positioned in West Jordan.
According to South Jordan's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the principal employers in the town/city are: 9 City of South Jordan 481 ADS-B is used for tracking and finding airplane positions using satellites. Nfl player Star Lotulelei also lives in south Jordan.
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