Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City
State capital
City of Salt Lake City[1]
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Nickname:  "The Crossroads of the West"
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Coordinates: 40°45′39″N 111°53′28″W / 40.76083°N 111.89111°W / 40.76083; -111.89111
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Salt Lake
Platted	1857 (1857)[2]
Named for	Great Salt Lake
Government
• Type	Strong Mayor–council
• Mayor	Erin Mendenhall (D)
Area [3]
• City	110.81 sq mi (286.99 km2)
• Land	110.34 sq mi (285.77 km2)
• Water	0.47 sq mi (1.22 km2)
Elevation [4]	4,265 ft (1,300 m)
Population  (2020)[5]
• City	200,133
• Rank	122nd in the United States 1st in Utah
• Density	1,797.52/sq mi (701.84/km2)
• Urban	1,178,533 (US: 41st)
• Urban density	3,923.0/sq mi (1,514.7/km2)
• Metro	1,257,936 (US: 47th)
• CSA	2,746,164 (US: 22nd)
Demonym	Salt Laker[6]
GDP [7][8]
• Salt Lake (County)	$111.0 billion (2022)
• Salt Lake City (MSA)	$135.4 billion (2022)
Time zone	UTC−7 (Mountain)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6
ZIP Codes	ZIP Codes[9] 84101–84128, 84130–84134, 84136, 84138–84139, 84141, 84143–84145, 84147–84148, 84150–84152, 84157–84158, 84165, 84170–84171, 84180, 84184, 84189–84190, 84199
Area codes	801, 385
FIPS code	49-67000[10]
GNIS feature ID	1454997[4]
Major airport	Salt Lake City International Airport
Website	Salt Lake City Government

Salt Lake City is a city in the United States of America. It is the capital and largest city of the state of Utah. It was founded by the Mormons and is the official headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is named after the Great Salt Lake, which it is near. The city's population was 199,723 in 2020.^[12]

The city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young and his Mormon followers. They 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.^[13] Although Salt Lake City is still home to the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), less than half the population of Salt Lake City proper is Mormon today.^[14]

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. It was host to the 2002 Winter Olympics. It is the industrial banking center of the United States.^[15]

1. ↑ "Salt Lake City, Utah City Code". Sterling Codifiers. June 2019. Archived from the original on July 22, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019. This City Code of the City of Salt Lake City, as supplemented, contains ordinances up to and including Ordinance 32–19, passed June 11, 2019.
2. ↑ Pioneer Plat Maps, sheet 2, image 2, "Great Salt Lake City Plot A", 1857. Salt Lake County Archives. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
3. ↑ "2019 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
5. ↑ "Salt Lake City city, Utah". Census – Geography Profile. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
6. ↑ "Definition for "Salt Laker"". Merriam-Webster. July 16, 2014. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
7. ↑ "Total Gross Domestic Product for Salt Lake City, UT (MSA)". fred.stlouisfed.org.
8. ↑ "Gross Domestic Product by County and Metropolitan Area, 2022" (PDF). www.bea.gov. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
9. ↑ "Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Archived from the original on November 4, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
10. ↑ "U.S. Census website". US Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
11. ↑ "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved May 21, 2020.
12. ↑ "Salt Lake City city". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
13. ↑ Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah place names: a comprehensive guide to the origins of geographic names : a compilation. University of Utah Press. pp. 327. ISBN 978-0874803457.
14. ↑ PBS American Experience. "The Mormons" (2007-04-30)
15. ↑ FDIC Industrial Banks. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (2004-06-25). Retrieved on 2007-03-06.