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South Jordan is a city in south central Salt Lake County, Utah, 18 miles south of Salt Lake City, lying in the Salt Lake Valley along the Jordan River between the Oquirrh Mountains and the Wasatch Mountains.

South Jordan was founded in 1859 by settlers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Alexander Beckstead became its first settler by moving his family into a dugout cut into the west bluffs above the Jordan River.

Beckstead and others built the 2.5-mile Beckstead Ditch to divert Jordan River water for irrigation, and the ditch is still in use for irrigating city parks and Mulligan's golf course.

The South Jordan Branch of the Latter-day Saint church was organized in 1863 with just nine families, and its meetinghouse and school, built of oversized adobe bricks, came to be known as the Mud Temple and was in use until 1908.

Citizens voted to incorporate South Jordan on November 8, 1935, because the only way to get a federal grant for a water tank was to incorporate and become a city.

As of the 2020 census, South Jordan had a population of 77,487 and 23,676 households, with a median age of 33.2 years, up from 50,418 people in 2010.

South Jordan grew from an agrarian town into a rapidly growing bedroom community of Salt Lake City, and Kennecott Land began the 4,200-acre master-planned Daybreak Community in 2004 on the city's entire western half, with Downtown Daybreak and the Salt Lake Bees ballpark opening there on April 8, 2025.

South Jordan was the first municipality in the world to have two temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Jordan River Utah Temple completed in 1981 and the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple completed in 2009.

The city has 3.5 miles of the Jordan River Parkway with fishing ponds, trails, parks, and natural habitats, along with the 67-acre Oquirrh Lake, 37 public parks, and the Salt Lake County fair grounds and equestrian park.

One of the worst school-bus accidents in United States history occurred in South Jordan on December 1, 1938, when a bus carrying 38 students was broadsided by a train, killing the driver and 23 students, and the accident led to state and federal laws mandating that buses stop and open their doors before crossing railroad tracks.