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Draper is a city in Salt Lake and Utah counties in Utah, about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front.

The 2020 census counted 51,017 residents in Draper, up from 42,274 in 2010, living in 15,007 households.

Ebenezer Brown brought cattle to graze along South Willow Creek in the fall of 1849, and the next spring he settled there with his wife Phebe Draper Palmer Brown and their families, in the area the Native Americans called Sivogah, meaning "willows."

The settlement was first called South Willow Creek, and its first post office opened in 1854 as Draperville in recognition of William Draper Jr., with the name later shortened to Draper.

Draper was incorporated as a city in 1978, after remaining a small farming community for most of its history.

In the 1940s Draper was known as the "Egg Basket of Utah," and its poultry co-op supplied eggs to military troops in the South Pacific during World War II.

Draper's population grew explosively from 7,257 in 1990 to 25,220 in 2000 as suburbia spread across the Salt Lake Valley.

The Utah State Prison stood in Draper from 1951 to 2022 near Point of the Mountain, alongside Interstate 15, before prisoners were moved to the new Utah State Correctional Facility.

At Point of the Mountain, Draper is known as one of the best places in the country for hang gliding and paragliding.

Draper is home to the headquarters of 1-800 Contacts and a large eBay campus, and Utah's first IKEA opened in Draper in 2007.