Salina, Utah
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Location in Utah
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1864 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Utah | ||
| County : | Sevier County | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 57 ′ N , 111 ° 52 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 2,489 (as of 2010 ) | ||
| Population density : | 156.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 15.9 km 2 (approx. 6 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 1572 m | ||
| Postal code : | 84654 | ||
| Area code : | +1 435 | ||
| FIPS : | 49-65880 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1445269 | ||
| Website : | www.salinacity.org | ||
Salina is a city in Sevier County in the US state of Utah . It is located on the Sevier River between the southern end of the Wasatch Plateau and the Pahvant Range on the western flank of the Rocky Mountains at an altitude of 1572 m and extends over an area of 15.9 km². It is accessed by the Interstate Highway I 70 and the United States Highway US 89 . An earlier railway line was not restored after the rails were destroyed by floods in 1983/84. The economy of the place with its 2489 inhabitants (status 2010) and the region is determined by the promotion of hard coal , cattle breeding and arable farming .
history
Salina was founded in 1864 by Latter-day Saints members of the Church of Jesus Christ during the Mormon settlement of Utah after church scouts in 1863 declared the Sevier River valley suitable for about 30 family farms. In 1866, the settlement was attacked as part of the Black Hawk War between the Mormons and the indigenous Indian peoples of the Ute , Paiute and Navajo and the settlers withdrew to Manti . In 1871 they came back and rebuilt the settlement, this time with a fort and other fortifications. While exploring the area, they discovered coal deposits that were initially used for their own needs and later commercially.
In 1874 the bridge over the Sevier River was completed, and irrigation canals expanded the arable land. In the next few years a telegraph line and a post office were built, and in 1891 the railway also reached the place. At that time Salina had about 300 inhabitants and was recognized as an independent municipality (town) in the same year . In 1913 Salina was upgraded as a city , in the 1920s the US Highway 89 was expanded as the region's first paved road.
In the 1940s, the production of hard coal expanded significantly, the SUFCO mine (formerly Southern Utah Fuel Company) opened in 1941 and operated by Arch Coal Inc. since 1985 and sold to Bowie Resource Partners in 2013. Today it mines around 8 million tons a year. Since the railway line on the Sevier River was destroyed several times by floods in 1983/84, the connection from Salina to the south has been abandoned. The coal from the mine is still transported by the Union Pacific Railroad , however, it is on the preserved section of the route.
Murder of prisoners of war in Salina
After the Second World War, around 250 German prisoners of war were housed in tents in Salina . The prisoners were used as harvest workers. In July 1945 - two months after the German surrender - an American soldier named Clarence V. Bertucci (born September 14, 1921 in New Orleans ) fired at the tents in which the prisoners were sleeping. Six prisoners of war died immediately and three others in hospitals. 19 people were seriously wounded. Bertucci was later found insane and unfit for action, spent time in a New York sanatorium, and died in December 1969.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=49
- ↑ Richfield Reaper: Sufco to change hands , July 2, 2013
- ↑ Time Magazine: Midnight Massacre , July 23, 1945 (free beginning of article)
- ↑ The Daily Utah Chronicle: Tragedy Finds Resting Place in Fort Douglas ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 11, 2002
