Murray is a city situated upon the Wasatch Front in the core of Salt Lake Valley in the U.S. state of Utah. Named for territorial proprietor Eli Murray, it is the state’s fourteenth largest city. According to the 2020 census, Murray had a population of 50,637.
Murray shares borders gone Taylorsville, Holladay, South Salt Lake and West Jordan, Utah. Once teeming gone heavy industry, Murray’s industrial sector now has little trace and has been replaced by major mercantile sectors. Known for its central location in Salt Lake County, Murray has been called the Hub of Salt Lake County. Unlike most of its adjoining communities, Murray operates its own police, fire, power, water, library, and parks and recreation departments and has its own bookish district. While maintaining many of its own services, Murray has one of the lowest city tax rates in the state.

Thousands of people each year visit Murray City Park for organized sports and its wooded areas. Murray is house to the Intermountain Medical Center, a medical campus that is as well as Murray’s largest employer. Murray has been designated a Tree City USA past 1977.

Before creature permanently fixed by Mormon pioneers in 1848, the Place where Murray is located was a natural area that served as the seasonal home of Paiute, Shoshone, and Bannock Native American tribes. The tribes camped along local creek banks and stream beds during their migrations. Artifacts of Native American encampments have been located along the Jordan River, including camps near Willow Pond Park.

At what was known as the “big bend” of the Jordan River (near 4984 South 700 West Street), the Goshute Indians from Skull Valley made their camp. This was made every spring on the artifice to their hunting ground at the headwaters of the Bear River. On their reward in the fall, they next stayed for a week and traded with white settlers. Early settlers recorded that they generally traded buffalo robes, deer skins, dried meat and tallow.