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Salt Lake City in 1863 First Salt Lake City Plat Map, "Great Salt Lake City Plot A", 1857 Salt Lake City c. 1880 by Carleton E. Watkins. The settling of Salt Lake City dates to the arrival of the Latter-day Saints in July 1847, [31] during the Mexican-American War.
Overland Trail. The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American West during the 19th century. While portions of the route had been used by explorers and trappers since the 1820s, the Overland Trail was most heavily used in the 1860s as a route alternative to the Oregon, California, and ...
524 cu ft/s (14.8 m 3 /s) The Jordan River is a 51.4-mile-long (82.7 km) river in the U.S. state of Utah. Regulated by pumps at its headwaters at Utah Lake, it flows northward through the Salt Lake Valley and empties into the Great Salt Lake. Four of Utah's six largest cities border the river: Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan, and ...
Downtown Salt Lake City. Coordinates: 40°46′10″N 111°53′28″W. Downtown cityscape in 2012 from the top of the LDS Church Office Building. Downtown (also called City Center) is the oldest district in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The grid from which the entire city is laid out originates at Temple Square, the location of the Salt ...
The Avenues is an affluent neighborhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is named after the perfectly gridlike, closely laid out roads called Avenues (numbers, 1st - 18th) and Streets (letters, A - V). [citation needed] First surveyed in the 1850s, the Avenues became Salt Lake City's first neighborhood. Today, the Avenues neighborhood is generally ...
Sugar House, Salt Lake City. Coordinates: 40.725384°N 111.859618°W. Sugar House area. Sugar House is a neighborhood in Salt Lake City, Utah. The name is officially two words, although it is often colloquially written as " Sugarhouse ." As a primary commercial and residential hub of the region, it is often referred to as Salt Lake's "Second ...
Salt Lake Temple. Salt Lake Temple is the centerpiece of the 10-acre (4.0 ha) Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. / 40.77056°N 111.89194°W / 40.77056; -111.89194. The Salt Lake temple was dedicated in 31 sessions held between April 6 and 24, 1893. The Salt Lake Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...
As an example of isostatic deformation of the shorelines, the elevation of the Bonneville shoreline near Salt Lake City is 5,203 ft (1,586 m), but on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, the elevation of the same shoreline is 5,246 ft (1,599 m). [2] [28]