Communities

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is also one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada), and the largest in the Intermountain West.

Sugar House is located within the Salt Lake City grid system roughly from about 500 East at its western edge to 2100 East at the east and 1300 South to 2700 South north to south, and is mostly to the boundaries of Salt Lake City.

Pioneers came into the Sandy area in the 1860s. It was a farming community with few people and widely spaced homes. Today Sandy has grown to be large suburban community with a population of over 100,000 citizens.

Draper is a city rich in pioneer heritage and colorful character. In the fall of 1849, Ebenezer Brown, the son of Scottish immigrants, brought his cattle to graze the tall grass fed by mountain streams in the unsettled area known as South Willow Creek.

The Avenues neighborhood lies on the “benches” of the Wasatch Mountains. The bottom of the Avenues is South Temple Street and from there the neighborhood is built up onto the lower slopes of the mountains.

South Jordan’s most distinctive and recognizable landmark, visible from miles around, is the LDS Jordan River Temple overlooking the open space and protected green belts of the Jordan River Parkway.

Ranked as one of Money Magazines 100 Best Places to Live Cottonwood Heights is located between the two most majestic features along the Wasatch Front, Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons.

On July 29, 1847 a group of pioneers known as the Mississippi Company, led by John Holladay, entered the Salt Lake Valley. Within weeks after their arrival, they discovered a free flowing, spring fed stream, which they called Spring Creek.