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1963 Map of Salt Lake City South

Name: 1963 Topographic Map of Salt Lake City South
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1965
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1965

About this map

The Jordan River corridor serves as the primary axis for this 1960s study of the Salt Lake Valley, where rapid postwar suburbanization is visible in the growing footprints of Kearns, Granger, and Taylorsville. The landscape is a complex network of water management and transportation, featuring the Surplus Canal and Utah and Salt Lake Canal alongside the heavy rail infrastructure of the Union Pacific and the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroads.

Social and civic life is anchored by an extensive list of educational and medical facilities, from Granite High Sch to the Valley West Hospital. Evidence of the region’s aviation history is preserved in the Utah Central Airport and Salt Lake City Municipal Airport No 2. This era marks a transition where agricultural fields are increasingly interrupted by Gravel Pits and new housing developments emerging around established rural pockets like Bennion and Atwood.