Taylorsville

History

The area called Taylorsville today is made up of two historic communities in the central part of Salt Lake County: Taylorsville and Bennion. These communities incorporated through a vote of the people with over 70 percent approval in September 1995. The city officially became the City of Taylorsville during the centennial anniversary of Utah's statehood in 1996. The land on which Taylorsville is located is part of an interconnected alluvial plain that was formed by the wearing down of the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains to the east and west. Beneath the surface, Taylorsville sits on more than a kilometer of unconsolidated rock, sand, and clay. The inactive Taylorsville Fault has been traced down the center of the Salt Lake Valley. Lake Bonneville shaped the topography of the area and deposited lake bottom clay and sand. As Lake Bonneville dried up over the past 14,000 years, the salt from the breakdown of rock remains, making the soil alkaline. Like most desert soils, it has little organic material and is hard to work. A broad, east-west running ridge called "Bennion Hill" rises perhaps a hundred and fifty feet above the surrounding area. Bennion Hill is the eastern end of a wide ridge that rises toward Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. The first (unnamed) people in the region appeared during or after the last ice age on the shores of what remained of Lake Bonneville. Less than five miles (8  km) from Taylorsville evidence of people killing and eating a mammoth have been found. Some of this region's first named visitors were Fremont people who used the area to hunt and gather food along the Jordan River more than a thousand years ago. A large Fremont settlement on City Creek used the land where Taylorsville is located as hunting and foraging…

Geography

Taylorsville is located at (40.654930, -111.949454). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• Granger High
  High · WEST VALLEY CITY · 3,481 students · 26:1 ratio
• Copper Hills High
  High · WEST JORDAN · 2,841 students · 25.6:1 ratio
• Taylorsville High
  High · TAYLORSVILLE · 2,770 students · 26.1:1 ratio
• Cyprus High
  High · MAGNA · 2,709 students · 26.6:1 ratio
• West High
  High · SALT LAKE CITY · 2,600 students · 22.2:1 ratio
• Hunter High
  High · WEST VALLEY CITY · 2,595 students · 25.2:1 ratio
• Bingham High
  High · SOUTH JORDAN · 2,482 students · 24.6:1 ratio
• Kearns High
  High · KEARNS · 2,382 students · 25.9:1 ratio