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Kearns is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, with a population of 36,723 at the 2020 census, up from 35,731 in 2010.

Kearns was founded on May 1, 1942, as Kearns Army Air Base, a World War II United States Army Air Forces training facility that had no runways of its own, and the base was deactivated on August 15, 1946.

Kearns is named for Thomas Kearns, a United States senator from Utah.

Kearns was granted township status on June 1, 2002, incorporated as a metro township on January 1, 2017, and became a city on May 1, 2024, under Utah's House Bill 35.

Kearns is home to the Utah Olympic Oval, an indoor speed-skating oval built for the 2002 Winter Olympics that is regarded as arguably the fastest ice surface in the world.

Kearns grew rapidly after the war on the former air base's streets and foundations, becoming the first suburb in Salt Lake County.

The 2010 census counted 9,789 households in Kearns.

Kearns covers 4.63 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 4,530 feet.

Kearns lies on the western side of the Salt Lake Valley on the lake bed of ancient Lake Bonneville, and it borders West Valley City to the north and west, Taylorsville to the east, and West Jordan to the south.

Construction of the Utah Olympic Oval at Oquirrh Park for the 2002 Winter Olympics brought new attention to Kearns, and a new Kearns Library was finished in December 2020.