South Jordan is a city in south central Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, 18 miles (29 km) south of Salt Lake City. Part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, the city lies in the Salt Lake Valley along the banks of the Jordan River in the midst of the 10,000-foot (3,000 m) Oquirrh Mountains and the 11,000-foot (3,400 m) Wasatch Mountains. The city has 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of the Jordan River Parkway that contains fishing ponds, trails, parks, and natural habitats. The Salt Lake County fair grounds and equestrian park, 67-acre (27 ha) Oquirrh Lake, and 37 public parks are located inside the city. As of 2020, there were 77,487 people in South Jordan.

Founded in 1859 by Mormon settlers and historically an agrarian town, South Jordan has become a sharply growing bedroom community of Salt Lake City. Kennecott Land, a land development company, has recently begun construction on the master-planned Daybreak Community for completely western half of South Jordan, potentially doubling South Jordan’s population. South Jordan was the first municipality in the world to have two temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Jordan River Utah Temple and Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple), it now shares that distinction similar to Provo, Utah. The city has two TRAX well-ventilated rail stops, as capably as one commuter rail stop on the FrontRunner.

The first known inhabitants were members of the Desert Archaic Culture who were nomadic hunter-gatherers. From 400 A.D. to on the order of 1350 A.D., the Fremont people granted into villages and farmed corn and squash. Changes in climatic conditions to a cooler, drier grow old and the endeavor into the area of ancestors of the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone, led to the AWOL of the Fremont people. When European settlers arrived, there were no unshakable Native American settlements in the Salt Lake Valley, but the Place bordered several tribes – the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone to the north, the Timpanogots band of the Utes to the south in Utah Valley, and the Goshutes to the west in Tooele Valley.

The on your own recorded trapper to improvement a party through the Place was Étienne Provost, a French Canadian. In October 1824, Provost’s party was lured into an Indian camp somewhere along the Jordan River north of Utah Lake. The people liable for the onslaught were planning revenge next to Provost’s party for an earlier unexplained incident involving additional trappers. Provost escaped, but his men were caught off-guard and fifteen of them were killed.