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.
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.
Kearns-St. Ann's Orphanagelisted 1980 · 0.6 miles away
George M. Cannon Houselisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away- Boulevard Gardens Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.9 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresSouth 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23,617 | |
| 2020 | 26,777 | +3,160 (+13%) |
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
19 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 14 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | DEVONSHIRE 2 |
| 13 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TRAILER |
| 17 August 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MM94 |
| 9 July 2019 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST |
| 6 July 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | VAL VERDA |
| 5 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | COYOTE PASS |
| 3 July 2011 | Other causes | 80 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | RED BUTTE |
| 29 July 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | FRUIT HEIGHTS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 37 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alta Champion | Silver, Lead, Gold, Bismuth | Producer | Vein | |
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| Fort Douglas Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Quartzite | |
| Intermountain Smelting Corp | Antimony | Producer | ||
| Limekiln Gulch South Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Calcite | |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roper | 1.1 miles | 25 | |
| Sugar House | 1.3 miles | 25 | |
| Granite | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Millcreek | 2.3 miles | 25 | |
| Redwood (historical) | 2.7 miles | 25 | |
| Salt Lake City | 2.9 miles | 27 | |
| Foothill Village | 3.4 miles | 25 | |
| Murray | 3.6 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 South Salt Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482869 | 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 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.









