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Murray, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84107. It stands on Little Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City South quadrangle. 50,637 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,301 feet above sea level.

Murray within Salt Lake County

On record in Murray

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 16 shown

Every listing in Salt Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Murray grew from 46,746 to 50,637 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201046,746
202050,637+3,891 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Murray between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOLE CAT
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeMILLVILLE CANYON
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
4 July 1998Fireworksunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWASATCH
3 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLYMPUS
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUNION ASSIST
7 June 1997Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMURDOCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 78 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Murray: 43 producers, 27 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 43 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Cottonwood Clay PitsClayProducer
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
New EnglandSilver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development CompanyZinc, LeadPast Producer
Onyx RanchGemstoneProducerOnyx
Spring and SummitGold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murray in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMurray$250,000Power lines were snapped in Murray, with multiple large trees uprooted throughout town. Carport and car damage occurred, as did damage to business signs and rooftops.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMurray$5,000Extensive roof damage from large tree on house.
August 1993HailMurray$5,000Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles.
August 1993HailMurray$500Shortly after the above thunderstorms moved out of the area, new thunderstorms redeveloped in the same area. Again, the remainder of the county was hardly touched. In Sandy, the hail piled up to a depth of 2 inches. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles. These thunderstorms also had frequent lightning. Lightning that struck a tree in Draper caused a very large branch to fall on some cars in a church parking lot. The damage to the cars was $30,000. The electric current from a nearby lightning strike worked its way into a house in Sandy destroying a television set. Brief heavy rainfall from these thunderstorms caused minor urban flooding.
June 2023HailMurray-One inch hail was reported in Murray.
August 2011HailMurray-Hail with a diameter of approximately 0.75 inches was observed near Murray.
August 2006Heavy RainMurray-Heavy rain fell along the eastern Salt Lake Valley, 1-1.3" in an hour fell from Murray to East MIllcreek.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dalton1.0 miles25
Millcreek1.5 miles25
Atwood2.4 miles25
Taylorsville2.7 miles25
Cottonwood (historical)2.9 miles25
Union3.3 miles25
Bennion (historical)3.3 miles25
Holladay3.4 miles25

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MurrayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482822The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1443742. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.