South Salt Lake is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States and is allowance of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 23,617 at the 2010 census.

Jesse Fox Jr. developed the Place South Salt Lake referred to as Central Park approaching 1890. Mr. Fox chose the publish after visiting New York and seeing Central Park there. He was impressed by the park and its design within an urban environment. Despite South Salt Lake monster rural at the time, he established to publish the Place Central Park. In 1925 the LDS Central Park Ward was created and named after the development. In 1936, an attempted annexation by Salt Lake City unsuccessful due to concerns higher than funding and implementation of a sewer system. On August 14, 1936 a unquestionable creating the Town of Central Park was endorsed by the Board of County Commissioners – however, this did not last long, as voters subsequently decided to disincorporate the town in 1937. In a near vote, voters after that approved combination of South Salt Lake. On September 29, 1938, still in dependence of a sewer system, South Salt Lake voted to incorporate as the Town of South Salt Lake, with Robert R. Fitts as the first town president. The town was furthermore lacking many new basic amenities at the times that would be easier to espouse with incorporation, such as a declare office and fire department. In 1939, the Works Progress Administration finally began construction of a sewer system, with a cost of $462,000. The original boundary of South Salt Lake was from 500 East to 300 West and 2100 South to Mill Creek on the south. On August 1, 1950 the population had increased plenty for South Salt Lake to be designated as a third class city. This misused the form of running to a mayor and city council. The town president of the time, Marlow Callahan, became the first mayor of the City of South Salt Lake. In the 1990s, South Salt Lake annexed portions of an unincorporated allocation of Salt Lake County to the south, and approximately doubled in land area and population.

On January 4, 2010, Cherie Wood became South Salt Lake’s first female mayor. During her administration, South Salt Lake has seen extensive redevelopment efforts. In 2012, a Chinatown onslaught opened upon a lot in the city near 3500 South and State Street. It is the without help Chinatown in the Intermountain West. In accessory to having many Asian-themed restaurants, it has a large Asian-themed supermarket. In 2017, after approximately 7 years of planning, ground was broken on a supplementary mixed-use improve known as The Crossing (formerly called Market Station) between State St. and Main St. just south of 2100 South, intended to serve as South Salt Lake’s “downtown”. This build up is oriented approaching mass transit, with an S-Line streetcar stop adjacent to the development, and 1 stop away from the Central Pointe TRAX Station. The first phase includes a WinCo Foods and a townhome development. Ultimately, this downtown go forward is planned to have 2,500 relations housing units, 1.5 million square feet of retail, 3 million square feet of office and public notice space, and supplementary greenspace and trails.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.9 square miles (18 km), all land.