Lehi (Utah)
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Location in Utah
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| Foundation : | 1850 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Utah | ||
| County : | Utah County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 24 ′ N , 111 ° 52 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 48,993 (as of 2009) | ||
| Population density : | 931.4 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 53.3 km 2 (approx. 21 mi 2 ) of which 52.6 km 2 (approx. 20 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 1391 m | ||
| Postal code : | 84043 | ||
| Area code : | +1 801 385 | ||
| FIPS : | 49-44320 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1442553 | ||
| Website : | www.lehi-ut.gov | ||
Lehi is a city in Utah County in the US state of Utah with 48,993 inhabitants in 2009. It is located at 1,391 m altitude in the Utah Valley on the north shore of Utah Lake and, after a history as an agricultural settlement, is now a suburb of the Provo / Orem agglomeration - metropolitan area .
history
The entire Utah Valley was originally the territory of the eponymous Ute Indians. The first white settlers were Mormon pioneers who were commissioned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to develop the Utah Valley for agriculture in 1850 . The group that settled on the north shore of the lake named their settlement Evansville from 1851 , after David Evans, a local bishop of the Church. It was Evans who applied for recognition of the settlement as a local authority just two years after the settlement in 1852. At the same time the name was for a prophet of the Book of Mormon changed in Lehi. The city was thus the sixth local authority in the Utah Territory , from which the US state of Utah later emerged.
In 1858 the town's economy benefited from the settlement of the Mormon militia called Utah Expeditionary Force in neighboring Camp Floyd. The camp was the largest military facility in North America at the time and was built on the one hand against the Indians of the region and on the other hand was intended to protect the interests of the Mormons against the United States. The location on the north shore of Utah Lake and near its outlet Jordan River in the direction of the Great Salt Lake was responsible for the fact that both the first overland stagecoach routes, the Pony Express in 1860, and the first transcontinental telegraph ran through Lehi.
The city's economic base was agriculture. While the east bank of Utah Lake received sufficient irrigation from the Wasatch Mountains for the cultivation of demanding crops such as orchards, Lehi had to get by on the one hand with artificial irrigation through the partly diverted American Fork River , on the other hand the farmers relied on less irrigation-needing crops, especially sugar beets . A flour mill was opened as early as 1856, and the first sugar factory in the region was built in Lehi in the 1890s , which brought another economic boom for the city.
Lehi today
Since the 1990s, Lehi has been changing at breakneck speed from an agricultural settlement to a suburb of the economic centers, in particular from Provo , around 20 km to the south and Salt Lake City , around 35 km to the north. In 1990 the city had 8,500 inhabitants, in 2000 it was 19,000 and in 2009 it was 48,993. The agricultural areas in residential areas are built with single-family houses, around 90% of all residential units in the city are free-standing single-family houses. Unlike the settlements on the east bank of the lake with their location under the mountains, the inhabitants of Lehi are economically slightly below the average of Utah County. The median income per household is $ 53,000 versus $ 56,000 for Utah County.
Lehi is accessed in a north-south direction by the Interstate Highway 15 into which the parallel US Highway 89 flows in the urban area .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b US Census Bureau: Lehi, as of 2009
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the story is based on: City of Lehi: About Lehi
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Lehi, detailed evaluation as of 2000 ( Memento from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 40 kB)
- ↑ US Census Bureau: Utah County - Income , as of 2000