St. George, Utah
| St. George | |||
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| Nickname : Utah's Dixie | |||
 The St. George Utah Temple in St. George |
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| Location in Utah | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1861 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Utah | ||
| County : | Washington County | ||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 6 ′ N , 113 ° 35 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
82,318 (as of 2016) 160,245 (as of 2016) |
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| Population density : | 493.5 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 168.0 km 2 (approx. 65 mi 2 ) of which 166.8 km 2 (approx. 64 mi 2 ) are land |
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| Height : | 872 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 84770, 84790 | ||
| Area code : | +1 435 | ||
| FIPS : | 49-65330 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1455098 | ||
| Website : | www.sgcity.org | ||
| Mayor : | Dan McArthur | ||
 Red sandstones near St. George |
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The middle town of St. George (old. Saint George ) is the administrative seat of Washington County in the southwest of the US state Utah . The gambling metropolis Las Vegas ( Nevada ) is around 190 kilometers away and can therefore be reached in under two hours by car.
St. George is also the location of the Dixie State College of Utah . Dixie has actually become a slang term for the US southern states . Although Utah was not part of the Confederation , the area tried during this time to make cotton cultivation the main economic factor and was one of the areas that, in contrast to most union states, benefited from slavery.
history
St. George was founded by Brigham Young in the 1850s to set up their own cotton production. Since it was never possible to produce the cotton at competitive prices, the attempt was soon abandoned. In April 1877 the oldest temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") still in operation today (2007) opened there .
As on May 19, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Harry exploded, it came in the 160 km distant St. George to radioactive fallout. Residents reported "a strange metallic taste in the air". A 1962 report by the United States Atomic Energy Commission found that the thyroid glands of St. George children were exposed to radiation doses of 1.2 to 4.4 Gray .
In 1954 the exterior shots of the film The Conqueror with John Wayne in the leading role were filmed in St. George . 30 years later, 90 members of the 220-strong film team had developed cancer, and in 1981 46 of those involved had died.
In the 1980s, St. George experienced an upswing as a retirement home for people from the metropolises of Utah, then as a starting point for tourists on the way to the color country and finally as a traffic junction.
In 1998 St. George hosted the US university championships in the decathlon.
Demographics
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1980 | 11,350 |
| 1990 | 28,502 |
| 2000 | 49,663 |
| 2010 | 72,763 |
age structure
| population | Years | proportion of |
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| under | 18th | 28.4% |
| from | 18-24 | 13.7% |
| from | 25-44 | 22.0% |
| from | 45-64 | 16.8% |
| over | 65 | 19.3% |
- the average age is 31 years.
sons and daughters of the town
- Howard Walter Cannon (1912–2002), US Senator
- Bert H. Miller (1879–1949), US Senator
- Amanda Righetti (born 1983), actress
- J. Edwin Seegmiller (1920-2006), biochemist
- The Piano Guys , musicians
Films made in St. George
- The Conqueror
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Car
- Harry's was
- The Electric Horseman
- Jeremiah Johnson
- Romancing the Stone
- High School Musical 2
- The Flyboys
- Jurassic Park
- On our own
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Light: 100 Suns , 2003
- ↑ See also John Wayne died in the atomic bomb. ( Memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Netzeitung.de May 26, 2007 (accessed on August 4, 2011).
- ↑ 1980–2010: Census Results