West Jordan, Utah
Salt Lake County
49-82950
The city is located in West Jordan Salt Lake County in the U.S. state of Utah and is a suburb in the southwest of Salt Lake City. With a population of around 102 445 people West Bank is the fourth largest city in Utah.
The city began as a small outpost of the Mormons in the 19th century, was recovered in the different raw materials for the capital.
Among the attractions of the city include the sugar factory built in 1916, the district Gardner Village 1850, the Oquirrh Mountains, the Jordan River and the Kennecott Copper Mine, the world's largest open pit copper. In the West Bank is also the South Valley Regional Airport (formerly Salt Lake City 2).
History
West Bank was named by Mormon settlers, as they with Brigham Young arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. These first settlers compared the valley to the promised land of the five books of Moses, called the river to the east of their first settlement, Jordan. This river flows, like his biblical model of a freshwater lake ( Utahsee ) to a salt lake ( Great Salt Lake ). West Bank was founded in 1849 on the west bank of the Jordan River.
Archibald Gardner built a sawmill in 1850 and some houses that can still be seen in Gardner Village today to some extent.
The early West Bank lived mainly from agriculture, water mills and mines. The first tannery west of the Mississippi was built here in 1851.
Since the 1970s the West Bank has increased substantially (from 1970: 4221 to 2004: 89 011 inhabitants).
Population Development
¹ 1980 - 2000: census results; 2005: Updating the U.S. Census Bureau
Geography
West Jordan is bordered on the west by the Oquirrh Mountains and the east by the Jordan River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city spreads out over an area of 80.0 km ².
The neighboring cities of West Jordan Taylorsville and Kearns are in the North, South Jordan to the south, Sandy and Midvale in the east and north-west adjacent West Valley City.
Vital statistics
According to the 2000 census, living in the West Bank 68 336 people in 18,897 households and 16,232 families. The population density of 853.9 persons / km ². Distributed on the surface of the city are 19,597 housing units, which corresponds to an average density of 244.9 persons / km ². The population is divided into 88.76 % White, 0.64% African American, 0.56% Native American descent, 2.04 % Asian, 0.94% and 2.31 % Oceanians with two or more ethnicities. Hispanics make with 10.07% of the second largest share of the population of the West Bank.