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South Salt Lake, 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 84115. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City South quadrangle. 26,777 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,255 feet above sea level.

South Salt Lake within Salt Lake County

On record in South Salt Lake

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

South Salt Lake grew from 23,617 to 26,777 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
201023,617
202026,777+3,160 (+13%)

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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of South Salt Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. None 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/undetermined14
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeDEVONSHIRE 2
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAILER
17 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMM94
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
6 July 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsVAL VERDA
5 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOYOTE PASS
3 July 2011Other causes80 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeRED BUTTE
29 July 2003Arson/incendiarism15 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFRUIT HEIGHTS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of South Salt Lake: 20 past producers, 15 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Fort Douglas Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerQuartzite
Intermountain Smelting CorpAntimonyProducer
Limekiln Gulch South QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
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

Every working 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
Roper1.1 miles25
Sugar House1.3 miles25
Granite2.1 miles25
Millcreek2.3 miles25
Redwood (historical)2.7 miles25
Salt Lake City2.9 miles27
Foothill Village3.4 miles25
Murray3.6 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 Salt LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482869The 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 1432753. 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.