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.
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
John P. Cahoon Houselisted 1983
Iris Theater, Apartments and Commercial Buildinglisted 2001
Murray Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2006
Murray LDS Second Ward Meetinghouselisted 2001
Murray Theaterlisted 2001
Ray F. and Ethel Smith Houselisted 2019
Warenski-Duvall Comerical Building and Apartmentslisted 2000
Henry J. Wheeler Farmlisted 1976- Erickson Artillo Dairy Farmhouselisted 2015
- Edward and Irene Hobbs Houselisted 2018
- Alfred and Hennie Huetter Houselisted 2019
- Murray Downtown Residential Historic Districtlisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresMurray 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 46,746 | |
| 2020 | 50,637 | +3,891 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
- 1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Salt Lake City South quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Salt Lake City South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1999 USGS Salt Lake City South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POLE CAT |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | MILLVILLE CANYON |
| 31 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BINGHAM ASSIST |
| 9 July 2019 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST |
| 4 July 1998 | Fireworks | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | WASATCH |
| 3 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | OLYMPUS |
| 12 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | UNION ASSIST |
| 7 June 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MURDOCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 78 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Cottonwood Clay Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Midvale Minerals Co | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic | Past Producer | ||
| Midvale Minerals Co. | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Arsenic | Producer | ||
| National Tunnel and Mines Co. | Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| New England | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development Company | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Onyx Ranch | Gemstone | Producer | Onyx | |
| Spring and Summit | Gold, Silver | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murray | $250,000 | Power 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 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Murray | $5,000 | Extensive roof damage from large tree on house. |
| August 1993 | Hail | Murray | $5,000 | Tropical 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 1993 | Hail | Murray | $500 | Shortly 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 2023 | Hail | Murray | - | One inch hail was reported in Murray. |
| August 2011 | Hail | Murray | - | Hail with a diameter of approximately 0.75 inches was observed near Murray. |
| August 2006 | Heavy Rain | Murray | - | Heavy rain fell along the eastern Salt Lake Valley, 1-1.3" in an hour fell from Murray to East MIllcreek. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton | 1.0 miles | 25 | |
| Millcreek | 1.5 miles | 25 | |
| Atwood | 2.4 miles | 25 | |
| Taylorsville | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Cottonwood (historical) | 2.9 miles | 25 | |
| Union | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Bennion (historical) | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Holladay | 3.4 miles | 25 |
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 Murray | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482822 | The 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.









