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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 Mormon pioneers, as they would come to be known, entered a semi-arid valley and immediately began planning and building an extensive irrigation network which could feed the population and foster future growth. Salt Lake City's street grid system is based on a standard compass grid plan, with the southeast corner of Temple Square (the area ...
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 ...
History of Salt Lake City. Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes. At the time of the founding of Salt Lake City the valley was within the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone, who had their seasonal camps along streams within the valley and in adjacent valleys. [ 1]
Geography of Salt Lake City. Coordinates: 40°45′17″N 111°53′33″W. Photo taken by ESA Sentinel-2 of Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City is located in a large valley, the Salt Lake Valley, separated by the eastern Wasatch Mountains, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. Salt Lake City is located at ...
Coordinates: 40°47′N 111°55′W. Rose Park is a neighborhood located in the northwest area of Salt Lake City, Utah, and is among the most ethnically diverse areas in Utah. Its name comes from the area's original developer, who arranged part of the area's streets in the shape of several roses, with one of its main streets, American Beauty ...
Main Street is the most important commercial street in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States though it also extends south into the cities of South Salt Lake, Millcreek, and Murray. Its commercial importance is almost totally derived from the few blocks of the street which are immediately south of Temple Square that have attracted banks, major ...
List of Salt Lake City neighborhoods. This is a list of neighborhoods in Salt Lake City. As a major city, Salt Lake City urbanized in the early 1900s and now has many distinct neighborhoods. [1] [2] Larger and/or most prominent neighborhoods include, with their approximate boundaries: Ballpark, running south from 900 South to 2100 South, and ...