Magna (Utah)

Salt Lake County

49-47290

Magna is a city in Salt Lake County in the U.S. state of Utah. According to an estimate in 2007, the town has a population of 25 331 people with an average age of 25.8 years.

Geography

Magna is located at 40 ° 42'6 " north latitude and 112 ° 5'9 " west longitude and is located at a distance of approx 10 miles to Salt Lake City in the east, the Great Salt Lake to the west, the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains in the south and the Interstate 80 highway in the north.

History

A first settlement of the area took place in 1851, when Mormons settled there. Farmer called the place 1868 " Pleasant Green". The early 1900s was found in the mountains of copper. Thereupon, the place was transformed from an agricultural area to an industrial area. The Utah Copper Company (later Kennecott Copper Corporation ) built in 1906 a copper smelter and called this " Magna ", in reference to the meaning of " large" from Latin. To avoid confusion of the place " Pleasant Green" with the also located in Utah place " Pleasant Grove ", the community, the place for the name of the copper smelter in " Magna " decided to rename. Due to the burgeoning industry, the population grew, many immigrants came from Eastern Europe. Other industrial plants were built or expanded, which suffered temporary setbacks during the Depression, but after 1960 grew again. Rising global demand for copper led in the 1970s to a further sharp increase in mining activity and thus also of the population. 1974 built the Kennecott Copper Corporation to the Kennecott Smokestack, a 370 -meter-high chimney of a copper smelter, which is among the highest in the world built chimneys and even today is still a landmark of the city. Between 1960 and 2000 the population grew from 8900 to 23,000.