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Salina is a city in Sevier County, Utah, nicknamed “North Sevier,” and its population was 2,441 in the 2020 census.

The first permanent settlers, about 30 families, moved into the Salina area in 1864 at the direction of leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they named the area Salina for the abundant salt deposits nearby, from the Spanish word for salt mine.

In 1866, troubles with Native Americans during the Black Hawk War forced the settlers to retreat to the Manti area, and they returned to Salina in 1871, organized a militia, and built a fort along with buildings for a school and a church, discovering coal deposits in almost inexhaustible quantities in the canyon east of the settlement.

Salina was connected to the state's railroad system in June 1891, was incorporated as a town that year, and was re-incorporated as a city in 1913, soon becoming the shipping terminal between the area's settlements and the rest of the state.

During World War II, Salina held a prisoner-of-war camp housing 250 German prisoners, most of them members of Erwin Rommel's Afrikakorps, and on the night of July 8, 1945, Private Clarence Bertucci fired 250 rounds from a light machine gun into the prisoners' tents, killing six prisoners outright and wounding 22 others, three of whom later died, in an incident called the Salina Massacre.

In the 2020 census, Salina had 921 households and a median age of 35.6 years, and all of its residents lived in rural areas.

Salina covers about 6 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 5,161 feet, and its annual precipitation averages around 7.82 inches, which classifies the area as desert.

The Salina Livestock Auction and the Salina Turkey Plant, now part of Norbest, were established in the 1940s and were still operating as of 2009, and the nearby SUFCO coal mine in Convulsion Canyon continues to operate.

Interstate 70, U.S. Route 50, and U.S. Route 89 intersect in Salina, and the western end of Utah State Route 24 is in the city.

Salina has one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school in the Sevier School District, and the nearest college is a branch of Snow College in Richfield, 20 miles south.