Riverton, Utah
[5] Located in the southern end of Salt Lake Valley, the first people of European descent to live in the area that is now Riverton settled in the mid-1850s.By the beginning of World War I in 1914, with its additional irrigation water and influx of people, Riverton prospered as an agricultural community.The large department store sold everything from building materials, coal and dry goods to groceries, grain and housewares.Riverton farmers were becoming specialists concentrating mostly on alfalfa, wheat, sugar beets, tomatoes, poultry, sheep or dairy cows.At this time, on land purchased from Samuel Howard in 1886, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began to store tithed produce and livestock.In 1913 the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad (Orem Line) was started and went through Riverton west of Redwood Road.As the population grew additional classrooms were needed and another building for elementary grades was erected to the north of the four-room schoolhouse.However, the city's progress was temporarily halted by World War II, the final stage of the farming community's evolution occurred in the 1960s and 1970s.In 1970, the town of Bluffdale was incorporated, taking in all of the land between 13800 South, southward to the Salt Lake/Utah County Line.According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.6 square miles (33 km2), all land.The hospital serves the fastest growing portion of the Salt Lake Valley with surrounding cities of Riverton, Herriman, Bluffdale, and South Jordan.Riverton provides easy-access to Bangerter Highway, Mountain View Corridor, and Redwood Road; as all pass directly through the city.The racial makeup of the county was 90.3% non-Hispanic White, 0.4% Black, 0.2% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.8% Pacific Islander, and 1.3% from two or more races.
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