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Utah (/ˈjuːtɑː/ YOO-tah, /ˈjuːtɔː/ ^ⓘ YOO-taw) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It borders Colorado to its east, Wyoming to its northeast, Idaho to its north, Arizona to its south, and Nevada to its west. Utah also touches a corner of New Mexico in the southeast. In comparison to all the U.S. states and territories, Utah, with a population of just over three million, is the 13th largest by area, the 30th most populous, and the 11th least densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two regions: the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state, which includes the state capital, Salt Lake City, and is home to roughly two-thirds of the population; and Washington County in the southwest, which has somewhat more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin.

Utah has been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups, such as the ancient Puebloans, the Navajo, and the Ute. The first Europeans to arrive - in the mid-16th century - were the Spanish. Because of the region's challenging geography and harsh climate, it only became a peripheral part of New Spain (and later of Mexico). Even while it was Mexican territory, many of the Utah region’s earliest European settlers were from the United States; notable among these were Mormons who were fleeing marginalization and persecution in the United States and arrived via the so-called Mormon Trail. In 1848, after the Mexican–American War, the region was annexed by the U.S., becoming part of the Utah Territory, which included what later became Colorado and Nevada. Disputes between the dominant Mormon community and the federal government delayed Utah's admission as a state: in 1896, after it agreed to outlaw polygamy, it was admitted as the 45th state.

People from Utah are known as Utahns. Slightly over half of all Utahns are Mormons, the vast majority of whom are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), which has its world headquarters in Salt Lake City; Utah is the only state where a majority of the population belongs to a single church. The LDS Church greatly influences Utahn culture, politics, and daily life, though since the 1990s the state has become more religiously diverse as well as secular. (Full article...)

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U.S. Route 491 (US 491) is a north–south U.S. Highway serving the Four Corners region of the United States. It was created in 2003 as a renumbering of U.S. Route 666 (US 666). With the US 666 designation, the road was nicknamed the "Devil's Highway" because of the significance of the number 666 to many Christian denominations as the Number of the Beast. This Satanic connotation, combined with a high fatality rate along the New Mexico portion, convinced some people the highway was cursed. The problem was compounded by persistent sign theft. These factors led to two efforts to renumber the highway, first by officials in Arizona, then by those in New Mexico. There have been safety improvement projects since the renumbering, and fatality rates have subsequently decreased.

The highway, now a spur route of US 91 via its connection to US 191, runs through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, as well as the tribal nations of the Navajo Nation and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. The highway passes by two mountains considered sacred by Native Americans: Ute Mountain and an extinct volcanic core named Shiprock. Other features along the route include Mesa Verde National Park and Dove Creek, Colorado, the self-proclaimed pinto-bean capital of the world. (Full article...)

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The Salt Lake City Public Library, named the best in the U.S. in 2006 by the American Library Association.

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August 11, 1999 - An F-2 tornado rips through downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, killing one person and injuring over 100.

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Harris pictured in The Banyan 1923, BYU yearbook

Franklin Stewart Harris (August 29, 1884 – April 18, 1960) was president of Brigham Young University (BYU) from July 1921 until June 1945, and president of Utah State University from 1945 to 1950. His administration was the longest in BYU history and saw the granting of the first master's degrees. Under his administration the school became an accredited university. He set up several colleges, such as the College of Fine and Performing Arts with Gerrit De Jong as the founding dean. Harris was an agricultural scientist, holding a doctorate in agronomy from Cornell University. He had served as the agriculture department head and head of the experiment station at Utah State Agricultural College and left BYU to become president of that institution. Harris also traveled to Russia and to Iran and other parts of the Middle East in order to provide expert advice on agriculture issues. The Harris Fine Arts Center on BYU's Provo campus was named after him. (Full article...)

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The historical buildings and structures of Zion National Park represent a variety of buildings, interpretive structures, signs and infrastructure associated with the National Park Service's operations in Zion National Park, Utah. Structures vary in size and scale from the Zion Lodge to road culverts and curbs, nearly all of which were designed using native materials and regional construction techniques in an adapted version of the National Park Service Rustic style. A number of the larger structures were designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, while many of the smaller structures were designed or coordinated with the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs. The bulk of the historic structures date to the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the structures of the 1930s were built using Civilian Conservation Corps labor.

The version of the National Park Service Rustic style that was adopted at Zion was less extreme in its rustic character than that employed at other parks. Compared with the Bryce Canyon Lodge, the Zion Park Lodge used smaller elements of timber and stonework, and employed milled lumber in place of rough log elements. This reflected the more settled character of the Zion area, which retained farms and irrigation systems at the time the first visitor facilities were built. (Full article...)

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...that Brent Scowcroft (pictured) (born in Ogden, Utah) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush?
...that Pando, a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen in Utah near Fish Lake and Bryce Canyon National Park, is the heaviest known organism in existence?
...that Natalie Williams, who attended Taylorsville High School and UCLA, is the first woman to earn collegiate All-America honors in both basketball and volleyball in the same year?

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Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah in 1913, looking east along 200 South from West Temple Street. To the far left is the Salt Lake Temple. The very white building right of the Temple is Hotel Utah, about one year old at the time. Just visible on the right side of the photo is the Salt Lake City and County Building clocktower. The Wasatch Mountains are in the background.

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Image 1Location where the Mormons entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, now the This is the Place Monument and Deseret Village (from History of Utah)
Image 2Map showing Utah in 1838 when it was part of Mexico, Britannica 7th edition (from Utah)
Image 3Pando, considered one of the heaviest and oldest organisms on Earth. (from Utah)
Image 4Children reading in Santa Clara, Utah, in 1940 (from Utah)
Image 5Bonneville Salt Flats (from History of Utah)
Image 6Deseret Village recreates Utah pioneer life for tourists. (from Utah)
Image 7The LDS Salt Lake Temple, the primary attraction in the city's Temple Square (from Utah)
Image 8A sketch of Salt Lake City in 1860 (from Utah)
Image 9Jake Garn (top-right), former Senator of Utah (1974–1993), and astronaut on Space Shuttle flight STS-51-D (from Utah)
Image 10Snow in Rose Park, Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 11First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 12Mining has been a large industry in Utah since it was first settled. The Bingham Canyon Mine in Salt Lake County is one of the largest open pit mines in the world. (from Utah)
Image 13Arches National Park (from Utah)
Image 14Ethnic origins in Utah as of 2021 (from Utah)
Image 15Western black widow spider (from Utah)
Image 16Utah State Route 12 through Red Canyon in Dixie National Forest (from Utah)
Image 17Brigham Young led the first Mormon pioneers to the Great Salt Lake. (from Utah)
Image 18The Rocky Mountain elk is the Utah state mammal. (from Utah)
Image 19Navajo homeland in Monument Valley (from History of Utah)
Image 20Fremont petroglyph, Dinosaur National Monument (from History of Utah)
Image 21The boundaries of the provisional State of Deseret—as proposed in 1849—are shown with a dotted line. The Utah Territory as organized in 1850, is shown in blue with black outline. (from History of Utah)
Image 22The Olympic cauldron is lit by the 'Miracle on Ice' 1980 U.S. men's ice hockey team at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 23American Fork Canyon (from Utah)

Map of counties in Utah by racial plurality, per the 2020 US Census

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Image 25Deer Creek Reservoir (from Utah)
Image 26The Huntsman Cancer Institute on the campus of the University of Utah (U of U) in Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 27Bryce Canyon National Park Amphitheater (winter view) (from Utah)
Image 28Zion National Park in southern Utah is one of five national parks in the state. (from Utah)
Image 29The California gull is the Utah state bird. (from Utah)
Image 30Map showing Utah in 1838 when it was part of Mexico. From Britannica 7th edition. (from History of Utah)
Image 31One out of every 14 flash memory chips in the world is produced in Lehi, Utah. (from Utah)
Image 32Kolob Canyons at Zion National Park (from Utah)
Image 33The Golden Spike where the First transcontinental railroad was completed in the U.S. on May 10, 1869, in Promontory, Utah (from Utah)
Image 34The Wasatch Front region has seen large growth and development despite the economic downturn. Shown is the City Creek Center project, a development in downtown Salt Lake City with a price tag of $1.5–2.5 billion. (from Utah)
Image 35Robbie Russell playing for Real Salt Lake (from Utah)
Image 36Pariette Wetlands (from Utah)
Image 37Sri Sri Radha Krishna (Hindu) Temple (from Utah)
Image 38Hovenweep Castle, San Juan River basin (from History of Utah)
Image 39Utah population density map (from Utah)
Image 40Köppen climate types of Utah, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Utah)
Image 41Joshua trees, yuccas, and cholla cactus occupy the far southwest corner of the state in the Mojave Desert (from Utah)
Image 42The Scott Matheson Courthouse is the seat of the Utah Supreme Court. (from Utah)
Image 43"Welcome to Utah" sign (from Utah)
Image 44The Eyring Science Center on the campus of Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah (from Utah)
Image 45FrontRunner commuter rail runs between Ogden and Provo via Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 46The Utah Jazz playing against the Houston Rockets (from Utah)
Image 47Utah county boundaries (from Utah)
Image 48The Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City (from Utah)
Image 49TRAX light rail serves Salt Lake County (from Utah)
Image 50Farms and ranches (from Utah)
Image 51Downtown Salt Lake City in the early 20th century. (from History of Utah)
Image 52Zion National Park (from History of Utah)
Image 53Little Cottonwood Canyon (from Utah)
Image 54Salt Lake International Airport is the largest airport in Utah (from Utah)

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Nickname: The Beehive State
Capital and largest city: Salt Lake City
Total area: 219,887 km² (84,899 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census): 2,736,424
Date admitted to the Union: January 4, 1896

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Animal: Rocky Mountain elk
Bird: California seagull
Fish: Bonneville cutthroat trout
Flower: Sego lily
Grass: Indian ricegrass
Insect: European honey bee
Tree: Quaking aspen
Fossil: Allosaurus
Gemstone: Topaz
Mineral: Copper
Motto: Industry
Rock: Coal
Snackfood: Green Jell-O
Song: "Utah, This Is the Place"

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