Utah Relocation Real Estate and Realtors®.
The name Utah is from the Ute Indians.
Utah's official flag was adopted in 1913. The flag has a deep blue field with the state seal in the center, surrounded by yellow fringe. The state seal was designed by Harry Emmett Edwards in 1896. In the center of the flag is a bald eagle above a beehive (symbolizing hard work), surrounded by sego lilies (representing peace) and two US flags. The word "INDUSTRY" and the dates 1847 and 1896 appear on the flag. 1847 is the year that Brigham Young led a group of his Mormon followers to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah in order to find religious freedom and establish a new base for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
10 Largest cities in Utah (2003): Salt Lake City, 179,894; West Valley City, 111,687; Provo, 105,410; Sandy, 89,319; Orem, 87,599; West Jordan, 84,701; Ogden, 78,293; Layton, 60,769; Taylorsville, 58,701; St. George, 56,382
Number of counties in Utah : 58
Largest county in Utah by population: Salt Lake, 935,295 (2004)
Largest county in Utah by area: San Juan, 7,821 sq mi.
Utah State Parks & Forests: 45 (64,097 ac.)
Utah Land Area: 84,899 sq mi. (219,887 sq km) (13th)
Utah Geographic Center: In Sanpete Co., 3 mi. N. of Manti
Utah Population: (2004 est) 2,389,039 (#34)
The region was first explored for Spain by Franciscan friars Escalante and Dominguez in 1776. In 1824 the famous American frontiersman Jim Bridger discovered the Great Salt Lake.
Fleeing religious persecution in the East and Midwest, the Mormons arrived in 1847 and began to build Salt Lake City. The U.S. acquired the Utah region in the treaty ending the Mexican War in 1848, and the first transcontinental railroad was completed with the driving of a golden spike at Promontory Summit in 1869.
Mormon difficulties with the federal government about polygamy did
not end until the Mormon Church renounced the practice in 1890, six
years before Utah became a state.
Utah Agriculture: Cattle and calves, dairy products, hay, greenhouse and nursery products, and hogs.
Utah Industry: Tourism and growing aerospace, biomedical, and computer-related businesses. Oil, Copper, gold, silver, lead, zinc, and molybdenum. Utah shares rich oil shale deposits with Colorado and Wyoming. Utah also has large deposits of low sulfur coal.
Don Glasgow,
Realtor®
I can assist you in finding a home in all of Washington County, Utah,
including St. George, Santa Clara, Ivins, Washington and more.
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