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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 77054
Land area (2000): 109.081897 sq. miles (282.520805 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.291140 sq. miles (3.344036 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 110.373037 sq. miles (285.864841 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67000
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.754700 N, 111.892622 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84101 84102 84103 84104 84105 84106
Headwords:
Salt Lake City
Wikipedia
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate). Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. This region is a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along an approximately segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a total population of 2,423,912 . It is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other is Reno, Nevada), and the largest in the Intermountain West.
The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and numerous other Mormon followers, who extensively irrigated and cultivated the arid valley. Due to its proximity to the Great Salt Lake, the city was originally named "Great Salt Lake City"—the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Temple Square, Salt Lake City was historically considered a holy city by members of the LDS church; Brigham Young called it a "Kingdom of Heaven on Earth". Today, however, less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church.
Immigration of international LDS members, mining booms, and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed the Crossroads of the West. It was traversed by the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway, in 1913, and presently two major cross-country freeways, I-15 and I-80, intersect in the city. Salt Lake City has since developed a strong outdoor recreation tourist industry based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the industrial banking center of the United States.
"Salt Lake City" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!).
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah.
Salt Lake City may refer to:
- Downtown Salt Lake City, the heart of the city of Salt Lake City
- Salt Lake City metropolitan area, the city and its suburbs
- Bidhannagar, Kolkata, a neighborhood in Kolkata popularly known as Salt Lake City
In music:
- Salt Lake City (song), a 1965 song by The Beach Boys from their album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
In transport:
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, the name of two separate ships of the United States Navy
Usage examples of "salt lake city".
Mom said that Granpa and Gramma quit the Congregational Church in Scarborough at the same time Gramma decided to quit teaching, but once, about a year ago, when Aunt Flo was up for a visit from her home in Salt Lake City, George and Buddy, listening at the register as Mom and her sister sat up late, talking, heard quite a different story.
Your flight attendants did not know any of this until just outside Salt Lake City.
Hopler, it turns out, recently retired from Dyno-Nobel, an explosives manufacturer in Salt Lake City.
We left Salt Lake City on Friday afternoon and drove to Wendover, the first town over the border.
Beyond the wide median strip, traffic races northeast toward Salt Lake City, with what seems like angry energy, as knights might thunder toward a joust, lances of light piercing the high-desert darkness.
Streaking across the country at five hundred miles per hour, the turquoise Cessna Citation Ultra had refueled at Salt Lake City before pushing on to Anchorage.