West Jordan, Utah West Jordan, Utah West Jordan is a town/city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
West Jordan is a quickly growing suburb of Salt Lake City and has a different economy.
According to the 2010 Census, the town/city had a populace of 103,712, placing it as the fourth most crowded in the state. The town/city is situated in the southwest end of the Salt Lake Valley at an altitude of 4,330 feet (1,320 m).
Named after the close-by Jordan River, the limits of the town/city begin on the river's bank and end in the easterly foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains, where Kennecott Copper Mine, the world's biggest man-made excavation is located.
As of 2012, the town/city has four primary retail centers; with Jordan Landing being one of the biggest mixed-use prepared developments in the Intermountain West. Companies headquartered in West Jordan include Mountain America Credit Union, Lynco Sales & Service, SME Steel, and Cyprus Credit Union.
The town/city has one primary hospital, Jordan Valley Medical Center, and a ground of Salt Lake Community College, which is designed to turn into the chief campus by 2020.
City landmarks include Gardner Village, established in 1850, and South Valley Regional Airport, formerly known as "Salt Lake Airport #2." West Jordan received its name from Mormon pioneer who entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the leadership of their prophet, Brigham Young.
These first European-Americans thought of the region to be their Zion, or Holy Land, and thus titled the river flowing west of their first settlement, Salt Lake City, the Western Jordan, a reference to the River Jordan in Israel.
Like its Middle Eastern namesake, the Jordan River flows from a fresh water lake (Utah Lake) to an inland salt sea (Great Salt Lake).
West Jordan was established around 1849 on the banks of the Jordan River.
The first leather tannery west of the Mississippi River was constructed in the town/city in 1851. Today, West Jordan is one of the quickest burgeoning cities in Utah.
Sears chose the town/city as its first Sears Grand location, a new store concept, which opened its doors in 2003 at the Jordan Landing shopping center.
Current primary assembly projects include the culmination of Jordan Landing, a new chief campus for the Salt Lake Community College, the expansion of Jordan Valley Hospital, and Midvale's current transit-oriented evolution on the east border in the Jordan River bed.
The second phase calls for the demolition of a dilapidated commercial area, to be replaced by six-story buildings housing a performing arts center, a large library, a hotel, an education center, a conference center, retail and office space, a trail linking to Gardner Village and the Jordan River trail, and a cultural pavilion to home the prepared light rail station. As of 2014, the library and TRAX light-rail have been instead of and opened.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 30.9 square miles (80.0 km2), all of it land.
West Jordan is bordered on the west by the Oquirrh Mountains and on the east by the Jordan River.
The town/city lies roughly 18 miles (29 km) southwest of downtown Salt Lake City.
The town/city is bordered on the north by Taylorsville and Kearns, on the south by South Jordan, on the east by Sandy, Murray and Midvale, on the west by Copperton, and on the extreme northwestern corner by West Valley City.
The town/city council appoints a town/city manager to act as the chief executive or administrative officer.
The town/city council provides policy and direction for the city.
Four town/city council members are voted for from four districts inside the city, while the other two are voted for at-large or citywide.
The mayor and the two at-large council members are voted for amid the same election cycle, while the four town/city council members representing their districts are voted for offset by two years, last one held in 2015.
Most of West Jordan lies in the Jordan School District; however, due to a pair of annexations, two small sections along the northern border lie inside the Granite School District.
The town/city has 16 elementary schools (including 1 in the Granite District), 4 middle schools, and 2 high schools (West Jordan and Copper Hills).
Interstate 15, a twelve-lane motorway, is positioned east of the town/city limits, providing access from the north and south, while Interstate 215, an eight-lane beltway, is positioned northeast of the city.
Bangerter Highway (State Route 154), a six-lane expressway, traverses the center of the city, just east of South Valley Regional Airport and the Jordan Landing shopping center.
Due to harsh traffic congestion plaguing the quickly growing city, a ten-lane motorway in the Mountain View Corridor (SR-85) is prepared to have three exits in the town/city (7800 S, 9000 S, and Old Bingham Hwy.) and run north-south at about 5800 West in the south and bend west to 6400 West in the north.
In the far extremes of the city, State Route 111, a two-lane road, runs through the developing non-urban area along the foothills.
West Jordan is served by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) bus system, which runs every half-hour amid peak hours.
All of the routes running into the town/city connect to close-by TRAX stations in Midvale and Sandy or to downtown Salt Lake City.
This line begins at the Fashion Place West station in Murray and run southwest through West Jordan, with 6 stops in the city, before turning south and terminating at the Daybreak Community in South Jordan. The route was opened on August 7, 2011. At town/city council meetings it has been common for residents, especially those on the edge of the city, to complain about having one-hour commutes to downtown Salt Lake City, a distance of 26 miles (42 km).
West Jordan has a sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International: Salt Lake City urbane region https://deseretnews.com/article/474343/W-JORDAN-VOTES-TO-ANNEX-LAND.html West Jordan annexes Oquirrh Shadows Wikimedia Commons has media related to West Jordan, Utah.
West Jordan - Utah History Encyclopedia "WEST JORDAN, UTAH: DEMOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW 2007".
Magna West Valley City, Kearns, Taylorsville Murray Mayors of metros/cities with populations exceeding 100,000 in Utah
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