Draper, Utah

Draper, Utah
Draper, Utah
City
	Draper Historic Park
	Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.
	Coordinates: 40°30′53″N 111°52′23″W / 40.51472°N 111.87306°W
Country	United States
State	Utah
Counties	Salt Lake, Utah
Settled	1849
Incorporated	1978
Founded by	Ebenezer Brown and his wife Phebe DRAPER Palmer Brown
Named for	William Draper Jr.
Government
• Mayor	Troy K. Walker
Area
• Total	29.96 sq mi (77.61 km2)
• Land	29.95 sq mi (77.57 km2)
• Water	0.01 sq mi (0.04 km2)
Elevation	4,505 ft (1,373 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	51,017
• Density	1,700/sq mi (660/km2)
Time zone	UTC−7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
ZIP code	84020
Area code(s)	385, 801
FIPS code	49-20120
GNIS feature ID	1427473
Website	www.draperutah.gov

Draper is a city in Salt Lake and Utah counties in the U.S. state of Utah, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. As of the 2020 census, the population is 51,017, up from 7,143 in 1990.^[3]

Draper is part of two metropolitan areas; the Salt Lake County portion is in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, while the Utah County portion is in the Provo-Orem metropolitan area.

The Utah State Prison is in Draper, near Point of the Mountain, alongside Interstate 15. Gary Gilmore's execution occurred on 17 January 1977. The Utah Legislature voted to relocate the state prison to Draper in 2014 and in 2015 approved the Salt Lake City location the prison relocation commission recommended. The Draper Prison will close in 2022. Inmates will be moved to a new prison facility in Salt Lake City; the new prison is slated for completion in mid-2022.^[4]

Draper has two UTA TRAX stations (Draper Town Center, 12300/12400 South and Kimball's Lane 11800 South) as well as one on the border with Sandy (Crescent View 11400 South). A FrontRunner commuter rail station serves the city's west side. The city has around 5 FLEX bus routes connecting neighboring communities and two bus routes to Lehi Frontrunner Station and River/Herriman, connecting at Draper Town Center and the Draper Frontrunner Stations.

The city is home of 1-800 Contacts and a large eBay campus.

^ "City of Draper, Utah Annual Report to our Citizens 2011-2012". Draper City, Utah. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
^ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, Draper City, Utah". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2021.
^ Utah Department of Corrections is Moving to a New Location from the Daily Utah Chronicle, published July 13, 2021, accessed August 26, 2021.

[1] "City of Draper, Utah Annual Report to our Citizens 2011-2012". Draper City, Utah. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2014.

[CenPopGazetteer2019-2] "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 7, 2020.

[3] "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, Draper City, Utah". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on November 3, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2021.

[4] Utah Department of Corrections is Moving to a New Location from the Daily Utah Chronicle, published July 13, 2021, accessed August 26, 2021.

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