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Statistics & Facts

Location

City Attractions

Historical Events

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Statistics & Facts

The Utah state capital is Salt Lake City.
The population of Magna is approximately 17,829 (1990), 26505 (2010).
The approximate number of families is 5,534 (1990), 7715 (2010).
The amount of land area in Magna is 19.317 sq. kilometers.
The amount of surface water is 0 sq kilometers.
The distance from Magna to Washington DC is 1929 miles.
The distance to the Utah state capital is 12 miles. (as the crow flies)
Magna is positioned 40.70 degrees north of the equator and 112.08 degrees west of the prime meridian.

Location

near Salt Lake City
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Attractions

Magna Park hosts a 4th of July celebration, complete with fireworks and carnival rides.

Members of the country band SHeDAISY are from Magna, Utah.
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Magna Historical Events

1874, March 28
My great, great grandmother was Naomi Taylor Coon, daughter of Samuel B. and Eliza West Taylor, pioneer residents and was supposedly the first child born in Magna, Utah on March 28, 1874. Her parents came to Magna when there were just a few families living on farms, taking up land by the Homestead process. Their first home was a log cabin cut from trees in the Cottonwood Canyon. I have received this information from a newspaper clipping as well as some sort of newsletter, it looks like, from the Oquirrh Stake. The first school she attended was also the church house, a little log cabin. She lived to be 95 years old and I believe lived in Magna her entire life. It is documented that she remembered Brigham Young, watching them build Saltair and gathering choke cherries up Coon's Canyon.
Submitted by Mae Chere Warrick-Nordstrand