Riverton is a town in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. This is part of Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population is 38,753 at the 2010 census. Riverton is located in the southwest corner of the rapidly growing Salt Lake Valley.
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Geography
Riverton shares the city's borders with South Jordan to the north, Draper to the east, Bluffdale to the south, and Herriman to the west. According to the US Census Bureau, the city has a total area of ​​12.6 square miles (32.6 km²). The town is located in the southwest corner of the Salt Lake Valley about twenty miles (32 km) south and a bit west of Salt Lake City. Riverton City receives an average of 15.76 inches (400 mm) in precipitation each year. Snow can be seen in winter, whereas during summer temperatures sometimes reach 100 Â ° F (38 Â ° C). Riverton has grown rapidly in recent years, turning it from a rural farm town into a suburban city. Businesses, housing, and roads have replaced many farms and farms.
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History
Located at the southern end of the Salt Lake Valley, the first people of European descent lived in the area that Riverton now settled in the mid-1850s. These early settlers were widespread along the riverbeds in crude oil excavation houses. Although the initial account did not agree, Archibald Gardner was probably the first to complete Riverton land. The city was originally referred to as "Gardnerville" before it changed its name to Riverton. Riverton's initial growth is slow due to lack of water for irrigation. As more water is available, the city begins to grow. Finally three canals were built to extend water from nearby Jordan River to bench areas, providing irrigation for agricultural use to larger areas.
At the beginning of World War I in 1914, with additional irrigation water and influx of people, Riverton thrived as an agricultural community. His growing business district is also evident at the moment.
Commercial development
The Page-Pixon Shop was built around the beginning of the 20th century, west of Redwood Road in 12760 South. Major department stores sell everything from building materials, coal and dry goods to groceries, grains and home appliances. The building has been set back from the road and has a tie rail in front of it to tie the horse.
The Jordan Valley Bank began in 1905 as a community bank. The bank was first housed at Page-Hansen Store then at Commercial Building. In 1920 it moved across the street, to the south. Other businesses that came to Riverton in the period of ten years before and after the First World War included Bill's Meat Market, Blacksmith Shop Gilbert Lloyd, Riverton Motors, Riverton, Utah Canning Factory, Riverton Alfalfa Mill, Utah Poultry Company, and many others ranging from theaters to trade shops.
Agriculture is also Riverton's main business. Just before the turn of the century, the farmers at Riverton gradually began to turn from self-sufficient agriculture to commercial agriculture. In the early years, the Riverton farmers were mostly self-sufficient, producing almost everything they needed. This is no longer the case when agriculture becomes a business. Riverton growers become specialists who concentrate mainly on alfalfa, wheat, sugar beet, tomato, poultry, lamb or dairy cow. At this moment, on land purchased from Samuel Howard in 1886, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began to store tithes and cattle. It was not long up to the hill that the company was located in, in 1150 West 12400 South, became known as the Tenth Yard Hill, which is now a planned construction of housing of the same name.
Electricity first came to Riverton in 1912. In 1913, Salt Lake and Utah Railroad (Orem Line) began and passed Riverton on the west of Redwood Road. It is used as a commuter and delivery line and runs from Salt Lake to Payson in Utah County. The train used this line from 1914 to 1945 after the rails and ties were removed. Riverton has its own train depot that is also torn down when the channel is closed.
Educational development
The first community school has only one room. It is located in an old adobe meetinghouse used by the LDS branch in 1300 West. In 1892, a new two-story brick school building was built in 12830 South on Redwood Road, The structure has four rooms, two floors up and two down and was built in January 1893. It was used by classes one through eight, two class to classroom. John Hansen is the first principal in this school. As the population increases, additional classrooms are needed and other buildings for the base class are set up north of the four-room school building. In 1925 the southern buildings were torn down and the northern buildings rebuilt. However, before the renovation was completed, fire hit-totally destroyed the school on July 30, 1926. The junior continued to be built in many southern and new elementary schools that matched the color and design of the junior bricks built on the site of buildings destroyed by fire. These two structures eventually became the Riverton Elementary School complex. The population that increased in the 1970s and 1980s required the construction of two new Riverton primary schools. The Southland Elementary was built at 2700 West and 13675 South and Rosamond Elementary in 1975 West and 12195 South.
By 1948 Riverton had grown enough to be incorporated into the city. However, the progress of the city was suspended by World War II, the final stage of the evolution of peasant communities occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Landfall prices and Riverton subdivisions are widespread. Farmers sell the land at a price many times the price they pay for it. The soil is beyond the reach of your farmers, many of whom move to Idaho and other neighboring countries. This is reflected throughout Salt Lake County as the number of farms declined from 2,595 in 1950 to 798 in 1969. Nevertheless, Riverton's population more than tripled between 1970 when its population reached 2,820 inhabitants, and the mid-1980s when it reached about 10,000.
Community development
During this time the new Town Hall was built on the edge of Riverton City Park in 12800 South and 1400 West. In 1996, the city bought an old Riverton Elementary School and 9 hectares in the vicinity of Jordan School District for $ 225,000. The city initially put the size of the ballot to fund the school through public income bonds, but the action failed to gain support because it would raise property taxes for Riverton residents. Instead, the city devised a multi-year plan to transform an old school house into Riverton Community Center, and some land was sold to the Regional Library System for the new library library. In 2005-06, the city has succeeded in renovating the old Primary School into a new Community Center and Town Hall, which is now the seat of the city administration office.
The often contentious city frontier changed between the time of the merger until 2000. At the time of the incorporation of boundaries set from the Jordan River to the west to what is now known as the 3600 Western coordinates, and from 11800 South to about 13800 South. In 1970, the city of Bluffdale was founded, taking all the land between 13800 South, south to the Salt Lake/Utah County Line. 1982 saw the merger of the town of Draper, a city once located at the southeastern end of the Salt Lake Valley, their incorporated boundaries, undisputed by Riverton, took an area across the entire region eastward from the Jordan River to the I-15 highway, which was once "loosely" considered or referred to as Riverton or "Riverton Siding". In 1996 the city's borders grew, almost twice the physical size of the city, through the annexation of land between Riverton and what came to be known as the city of Herriman (now an incorporated city), extending its boundaries from 3600 West to about 4800 West, and to 5600 West from 13400 South to 14200 South and heading south beyond the city limits of Bluffdale. Included in the 1996 annexation was the construction of "Foothills" that had previously been annexed to Riverton during the 1980s, and then later annexed after the original developer filed for bankruptcy. The final compacting of the Riverton boundaries came when the city of Herriman, founded in 2000, stopped the possibility of further expansion to the west by Riverton.
Education
The Riverton Public School is comprised of six state primary schools (Riverton, Rosamond, Rose Creek, Southland, Foothills, Blackridge and Midas Creek), two high schools (Oquirrh Hills and South Hills) and one Riverton High School, one of the most solid 10-12 schools in Utah. Because the school is too crowded, not all students are allowed to park at school. Other secondary schools were built near Herriman to reduce congestion. The Riverton School is part of the Jordan School District. The district is divided in 2009, and the district has tried to raise property tax by 40%. The trial of August 4, 2009 resulted in more than 1000 angry citizens attacking the council for not touching the administrative salary before continuing a large tax increase. The district is experiencing a 20% increase, while some fear that it will reach 45%.
Hospital
The Intermountain Riverton Hospital, funded by Intermountain Healthcare, opened in November 2009. A much-needed public hospital serves the fastest growing section of Salt Lake Valley with surrounding towns such as Riverton, Herriman, Bluffdale and South Jordan. The hospital will also provide services to cities in northern Utah County. Hospital services include complete patient care, 24-hour emergency department, state-of-art women center, surgical center, radiology, laboratory, pharmacy, physical therapy, 40 doctors' offices, and a helicopter pad. Perhaps the most important service that includes this hospital is a children's outpatient center run directly by the Primary Children's Medical Center. The hospital design allows it to expand as the southwestern part of the valley continues to see rapid growth.
Mountain View Village
In January 2016, city leaders approved an agreement to develop 543 hectares of open space in Western Riverton. The land was formerly owned by Suburban Land Reserve, a branch of the real estate of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Most of the land will include a new mixed shopping center dubbed "Mountain View Village." Mountain View Village will be located on the northern side of 13400 S and east of Mountain View Corridor, and is expected to include retail, restaurant and office space, as well as luxury theater. CenterCal Properties, the retail development company behind Station Park in Farmington, is the developer for the project.
The surrounding development will feature communities such as villages with shopping plazas, office towers, public squares, parks and walkways, and a wide range of housing options. The development of this 543-acre property could add as many as 12,000 new residents to Riverton residents.
Demographics
According to estimates from the US Census Bureau, by 2016, there are 42,838 people in Riverton. District racial makeup is 90.3% non-Hispanic White, 0.4% Black, 0.2% Native Americans, 1.0% Asian, 0.8% Pacific Islands, and 1.3% of two or more races. 6.5% of the population is Hispanic or Latino from any race.
References
External links
- Official website
- Riverton SMA
- Riverton School
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