West Valley City, Utah
20 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 84120. The Survey maps it on the Magna quadrangle. 140,230 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,304 feet above sea level.
On record in West Valley City
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 1 record
- Westwood Village Historic Districtlisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresWest Valley City grew from 129,480 to 140,230 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 | 129,480 | |
| 2020 | 140,230 | +10,750 (+8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 20 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 Tooele Valley quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1952 USGS Magna quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:100000
- 1999 USGS Magna quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of West Valley City between 1999 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 | 9 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 7200 WEST ASSIST |
| 13 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TRAILER |
| 31 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | U 111 |
| 9 July 2019 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST |
| 5 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV |
| 4 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 5525 S COUGAR LN |
| 2 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 8000 W 2100 S |
| 19 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 4430 S ATHERTON DR |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 49 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of West Valley City: 23 past producers, 22 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 22 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 | |
| Dry Fork Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Iron | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite | |
| 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 | ||
| Onyx Ranch | Gemstone | Producer | Onyx | |
| Spring and Summit | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Mercury, Lead | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Mercury | |
| Utah Delaware Mining Co. | Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Murray Slag Dump | Zinc, Lead | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunter | 1.1 miles | 20 | |
| Granger | 1.8 miles | 25 | |
| Kearns | 2.2 miles | 25 | |
| Redwood (historical) | 3.6 miles | 25 | |
| Taylorsville | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| Terminal | 4.4 miles | 20 | |
| Oquirrh | 4.6 miles | 20 | |
| Buena Vista | 4.8 miles | 27 |
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 West Valley City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q52465 | 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 1437843. 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.





