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South Jordan is a city in south central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, 18 miles (29 km) south of Salt Lake City.Part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, the city lies in the Salt Lake Valley along the banks of the Jordan River between the 10,000-foot (3,000 m) Oquirrh Mountains and the 11,000-foot (3,400 m) Wasatch Mountains.
Map of the 10th Utah Senate District. The 10th Utah Senate District is located in West Jordan, South Jordan and Herriman. It includes Utah House Districts 41, 42, 47, and 50 and 52. The current State Senator representing the 10th district is Lincoln Fillmore. Fillmore was elected to the Utah Senate in a special election after Senator Osmond ...
The Utah state legislature gave South Jordan special tax powers and created a Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone centered around Daybreak. Thousands of high-density residences will be built in and around Daybreak. Plans are in place to expand and improve mass transit lines serving the southwest neck of Salt Lake County. [10]
Jordan District was the largest in Utah until the Canyons School District in the southeastern portion of the county split in 2009. Boundaries for Jordan District now include the communities of Bluffdale , Copperton , Herriman , Riverton , South Jordan and most of West Jordan .
Utah is divided into 4 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. After the 2010 census , Utah gained one House seat, and a new map was approved by the state legislature and signed into law by Governor Gary Herbert .
Utah's 4th congressional district is a congressional district created by the state legislature as a result of reapportionment by Congress after the 2010 census showed population increases in the state relative to other states. [3] Prior to 2010 reapportionment, Utah had three congressional districts. [3]
The 4th district is based in southwest Salt Lake County, taking in parts of West Valley City and Salt Lake City, as well as South Salt Lake, Taylorsville, Murray, West Jordan, Midvale, South Jordan, Riverton, Herriman, and Bluffdale. The district also stretches south into eastern Utah County, western Juab County, and northern Sanpete County.
In the 1990s, the county's areas of rapid growth shifted further south and west. Farm and pasturelands were developed as suburbs. The cities of West Jordan, South Jordan, Riverton, Herriman, and Draper are some of the fastest-growing cities in the state. During the 1990s, Salt Lake City gained population for the first time in 40 years.