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South Jordan, Utah

24 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 84095. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Midvale quadrangle. 77,487 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,439 feet above sea level.

South Jordan within Salt Lake County

On record in South Jordan

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 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

South Jordan grew from 50,418 to 77,487 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
201050,418
202077,487+27,069 (+54%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of South Jordan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11 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/undetermined6
Natural2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPRESERVE
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIENNA
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
5 July 1994Natural1.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCOLD SPRING
26 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHARDMAN
2 July 2019Fireworks1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGALENA
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 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of South Jordan: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 2 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Arsenic. 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
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Subsurface BrinesBromineProducer1914, 1917
Salt Lake County Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer1981
Unidentifie OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Jordan in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 1997HailSouth Jordan$10,000no account filed
June 2018HailSouth Jordan-Quarter- to half-dollar-sized hail was reported in South Jordan, Sandy, and Cottonwood Heights.
August 2002HailSouth Jordan-Media reports indicated 3/4 inch hail fell in the South Jordan area from a severe thunderstorm.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindSouth Jordan-Microburst winds blew from the west and northwest along the Wasatch front producing isolated damage reports. The most significant damage occurred in the Woods Cross area. With wind gusts estimated at 80 mph, gravel and small debris became airborne and was driven into a few new cars, damaging the paint and breaking out windows. Auto damage was estimated at $20,000. An adjacent building lost a few shingles. Lightning started at least 12 range fires in Box Elder and Tooele Counties. The northwest microburst winds blew choking smoke into the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindSouth Jordan-no account filed
September 1998HailSouth Jordan-no account filed
June 1996HailSouth Jordan-no account filed

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
Lampton1.5 miles24
Crescent2.2 miles24
Endot2.3 miles24
Riverton Siding2.8 miles24
Riverton2.8 miles24
Sandy City3.2 miles24
West Jordan3.3 miles24
White City3.5 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 South JordanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q52467The 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 1432728. 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.