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Stansbury's 1852 map of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country in the Utah Territory. There are several maps dating back to 1575 that show the Great Salt Lake at the correct latitude and longitude, within an accuracy of a few degrees. [citation needed] One example is a map by Nicolas Sanson dated 1650. [8]
Downtown Salt Lake City circa 1913 Salt Lake City suburb, 1909 Armed delivery of liquor & beer, 1917. The Great Depression hit Salt Lake City especially hard. At its peak, the unemployment rate reached 61,500 people, about 36%. The annual per capita income in 1932 was $276, half of what it was in 1929, $537 annually. Jobs were scarce.
Salt Lake City and its surrounding area. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which had a population of 1,257,936 at the 2020 census.
Central downtown Salt Lake City as viewed from the north facing south. Salt Lake City, Utah has many historic and notable sites within its immediate borders. Although the entire Salt Lake City metropolitan area is often referred to as "Salt Lake City", this article is concerned only with the buildings and sites within the official city limits of Salt Lake City.
The creation of the new Territory of Utah around the Great Basin and the Great Salt Lake was part of the elements of agreements in the political Compromise of 1850 made in the national capital of Washington, D.C. that sought to preserve the balance of power between Southern slave states and free states in the North.
The Salt Lake Tribune newspaper on Monday began using a new map of Utah that features a fresh depiction of the Great Salt Lake in response to the drastic shrinking the iconic body of water has ...
More than 200 of these sites, including four National Historic Landmarks, are located in Salt Lake City, and are listed separately; the 151 sites outside the city, including two National Historic Landmarks, are listed here. Six other sites in the county outside of Salt Lake City were once listed on the Register, but have been removed.