Utah 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. Of the fifty U.S. states,Utah is the 13th-largest by area;with a population over three million,it is the 30th-most-populous and 11th-least-densely populated. Urban development is mostly concentrated in two areas:the Wasatch Front in the north-central part of the state,which is home to roughly two-thirds of the population and includes the capital city,Salt Lake City;and Washington County in the southwest,with more than 180,000 residents. Most of the western half of Utah lies in the Great Basin.
Davis County is a county in northern Utah,United States. As of the 2020 United States Census,the population was 362,679,making it Utah's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Farmington,and its largest city by both population and area is Layton.
Salt Lake County is located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census,the population was 1,185,238,making it the most populous county in Utah. Its county seat and largest city is Salt Lake City,the state capital. The county was created in 1850. Salt Lake County is the 37th most populated county in the United States and is one of four counties in the Rocky Mountains to make it into the top 100. Salt Lake County has been the only county of the first class in Utah –under the Utah Code is a county with a population of 700,000 or greater. Although,Utah County directly to the south has recently reached this threshold.
Richfield is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County,Utah,United States,and is the largest city in southern-central Utah.
Robert LeRoy Parker,better known as Butch Cassidy,was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.
The Fremont culture or Fremont people is a pre-Columbian archaeological culture which received its name from the Fremont River in the U.S. state of Utah,where the culture's sites were discovered by local indigenous peoples like the Navajo and Ute. In Navajo culture,the pictographs are credited to people who lived before the flood. The Fremont River itself is named for John Charles Frémont,an American explorer. It inhabited sites in what is now Utah and parts of Nevada,Idaho,Wyoming and Colorado from AD 1 to 1301. It was adjacent to,roughly contemporaneous with,but distinctly different from the Ancestral Pueblo peoples located to their south.
Erastus Fairbanks Snow was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1849 until his death. Snow was a leading figure in the Mormon colonization of Arizona,Colorado,and New Mexico.
Snow College is a public community college in Ephraim,Utah. It offers certificates and associate degrees along with bachelor's degrees in music,software engineering,and nursing. Snow College is part of the Utah System of Higher Education.
William Orton was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah from 1991 to 1997.
Steven Don Bennion has served as president of Snow College,Ricks College,and Southern Utah University.
Marlin Keith Jensen is an American attorney who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1989. He served as the official Church Historian and Recorder of the church from 2005 to 2012. He was the 19th man to hold that calling since it was established in 1830. Jensen was made an emeritus general authority in the October 2012 general conference.
Steven Erastus Snow has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2001. He served as the Church Historian and Recorder from 2012 until 2019.
George Francis Gibbs was the secretary to the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The landlocked U.S. state of Utah is known for its natural diversity and is home to features ranging from arid deserts with sand dunes to thriving pine forests in mountain valleys. It is a rugged and geographically diverse state at the convergence of three distinct geological regions:the Rocky Mountains,the Great Basin,and the Colorado Plateau.
William Wallace Cluff was an American Latter-day Saint missionary and leader in the 19th century,and a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature.
Scott L. Wyatt is an American attorney,politician,and academic administrator serving as the 16th president of Southern Utah University. He previously served as the 15th president of Snow College and as a member of the Utah State Legislature.
V. Lowry Snow is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives,representing District 74 since his January 11,2012 appointment to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David Clark. He has lived in Washington County for over 40 years and is married to former high school music educator,Sheryl Snow. They have been married for 47 years and have 6 children and 17 grandchildren. They currently reside in Santa Clara.
The 2016 United States Senate election in Utah took place on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Utah,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah were held on November 6,2018,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Utah,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The elections coincided with other states' elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Registered political parties in Utah must have at least one of their candidates for House of Representatives get 2% of the vote in their respective election in order to maintain their ballot access in future elections.
