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Erda is a city in Tooele County, established in 1852, that was previously a census-designated place and a township before it officially received its incorporation certificate on January 3, 2022, and the Census Bureau redesignated it as a city in 2023.

The 2020 census counted 3,673 residents in Erda, counted then as a census-designated place, down 20.9 percent from 4,642 in 2010, after rising from 2,473 in 2000.

Erda is located just south of Stansbury Park, west of State Route 36, and north of the county seat of Tooele, overlooking the Great Salt Lake and Stansbury Island.

The community has been known in the past by the names Bates and Batesville.

Erda covers 22.5 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 4,337 feet.

As of the 2000 census, there were 697 households in Erda, with an average household size of 3.55.

Erda's census history stretches back to 1880, when it counted 145 residents.

As of 2019, Erda had only one school, Excelsior Academy on Erda Way, a tuition-free public charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, although several schools in Stansbury Park also serve the area.

As of 2019, Erda had two churches, both meetinghouses of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Erda Way, and a temple the church had announced for Erda was moved to nearby Tooele after residents raised concerns about the development plans.

Bolinder Field, also known as Tooele Valley Airport, is located in Erda.