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Utah

U.S. teritory organized 1850 (admitted as a state 1896), from Spanish yuta, name of the indigenous Uto-Aztecan people of the Great Basin (Modern English Ute), perhaps from Western Apache (Athabaskan) yudah "high" (in reference to living in the mountains).

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Utah -- U.S. County in Utah
Population (2000): 368536
Housing Units (2000): 104315
Land area (2000): 1998.332437 sq. miles (5175.657032 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 142.642693 sq. miles (369.442863 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2140.975130 sq. miles (5545.099895 sq. km)
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.236597 N, 111.736710 W
Headwords:
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Utah, UT
Utah County
Utah County, UT
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Utah

Utah ( or ) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States. Utah has a population of nearly 3 million (Census estimate for July 1, 2015), approximately 80% of whom live along the Wasatch Front, centering on the state capital Salt Lake City. Utah is bordered by Colorado to the east, Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, Arizona to the south, and Nevada to the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast.

Approximately 62% of Utahns are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS ( Mormons), which greatly influences Utahn culture and daily life (although only 41.6% are active members of the faith). The LDS Church's world headquarters is located in Salt Lake City. Utah is the only state with a majority population belonging to a single church.

The state is a center of transportation, education, information technology and research, government services, mining, and a major tourist destination for outdoor recreation. In 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Utah had the second fastest-growing population of any state. St. George was the fastest–growing metropolitan area in the United States from 2000 to 2005. Utah also has the 14th highest median average income and the least income inequality of any U.S. state. A 2012 Gallup national survey found Utah overall to be the "best state to live in" based on 13 forward-looking measurements including various economic, lifestyle, and health-related outlook metrics.

Utah (disambiguation)

Utah is a state in the United States.

Utah may also refer to:

  • Utah (film), a 1945 film
  • Utah, Illinois, an unincorporated community
  • Utah, Indiana, a community in Indiana, United States
  • USS Utah (BB-31), an American battleship
  • Utah County, Utah
  • University of Utah, a public university in Utah
  • Utah Utes, the above school's athletic program
Utah (film)

Utah is a 1945 American Western film directed by John English.

Usage examples of "utah".

Apparently they drove west into Utah because about daylight a Utah Highway Patrolman tries to stop a speeding truck on Route 262 west of Aneth, and they shoot holes in his radiator.

By the terms of the third measure, the territory east of California won from Mexico was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and they were opened to settlement by both slaveholders and antislavery settlers.

She felt safe--not because they were in rural Utah, away from the smog and the gangs and the high crime rate of the major metropolitan areas, but because they were living in Bonita Vista, an enclosed world, a hermetically sealed environment, shielded against all that lay outside.

Proponents on both sides of the Brownback bill ran television ads in Utah, North Dakota, Georgia, and Washington, D.

The knife, and therefore the culture, existed in Utah while the Cerro Chaltel site was probably at the peak of its power over the Tierra Del Fuego area.

Not just because I think Mom is going to pay somebody to kidnap Janice and have her sent to Utah for deprogramming, but because I think Mitch finally met a girl he really likes.

Ten hours later it wrapped itself around Deseret Peak in the Stansbury Mountains of Utah and was totally destroyed.

The Washington act not only differs vitally from the Utah and New Mexico acts, but the Nebraska act differs vitally from both.

Hammond had spoken to the night-duty officer manning the emergency line at the CBW Civilian Defense Unit at Dugway, Utah.

Aerosols were tested on animals at Deseret Island in the Pacific Ocean and at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

Quantrill was pulling sprint chopper maintenance at Dugway, on the Utah side of the Nevada border.

Ogden, Utah, factory went to around-the-clock shifts, turning out flamingo-pink butyl rubber gasproof suits outfitted with what appeared to be corkscrew antennas in the seat area.

The land was then divided, an imaginary line between Hano and Sichumovi, extending eastward entirely across the valley, marked the southern boundary, and from this line as far north as the spot where the last Utah was killed was assigned to the Hano as their possession.

Repair ship Vestal badly damaged, minelayer Oglala sunk, seaplane tender Curtiss damaged, miscellaneous auxiliary Utah capsized.

I drew upon memories of teenage wanderings in the mountains and deserts of New Mexico and Colorado, of later trips deep into the slickrock and sand dunes of Utah and California, the Navajo and Hopi country of Arizona, and such corners of Nevada as the spectacular sandstone formations of the Valley of Fire.