Stansbury Park, Utah | |
|---|---|
 Location in Tooele County and the state of Utah | |
 Location of Utah in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 40°37′48″N 112°18′16″W / 40.63000°N 112.30444°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| County | Tooele |
| Named for | Howard Stansbury |
| Government | |
| • Type | Unincorporated area |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.5 sq mi (3.8 km2) |
| • Land | 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km2) |
| • Water | 0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2) |
| Elevation | 4,278 ft (1,304 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 9,851 |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
| ZIP code | 84074 |
| Area code | 435 |
| FIPS code | 49-72720[2] |
| GNIS feature ID | 2409995[1] |
| Website | Official Service Agency Website Official Stansbury Park Community Association Website |
Stansbury Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tooele County, Utah, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 9,851, up from the 2010 figure of 5,145.
Stansbury Park is located in the northern end of Tooele Valley at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains. Traveling by Interstate 80, Stansbury Park is 35 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City.
Stansbury Park was proposed by the original developer (Terracor) as a planned community with a lake for sailing and canoeing, an eighteen-hole golf course, clubhouse, swimming pool, and parks. Although the original developer withdrew from the scene in the 1980s due to bankruptcy, that plan has generally been followed. The parks throughout Stansbury Park include baseball diamonds, soccer fields, basketball courts, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard park, and an astronomical observatory. A large park northwest of Utah State Route 138 is being developed.[3] A natural lake (The Mill Pond) exists on the northern edge of the area; it is fed by a spring at its southeast end. The outflow water from this lake is piped around the Oquirrh Mountain Range (east of Stansbury Park) to the Kennecott Company's copper mine refinery operation (the runoff water from the lake enters a large pipe NW of the Benson Grist Mill for transport to the Kennecott operation).
The area includes several businesses, clustered in two developments at the southeast and northeast corners of the area along Utah State Route 36.
As of 2019, the community is not incorporated; thus all municipal services (except for water and sewer service) are provided by Tooele County. A proposal to incorporate was voted down in November 2016.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stansbury Park, Utah
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ Tooele Transcript-Bulletin website. The opening was planned for late 2011, but the transplanted trees were not sufficiently established at that time, delaying the opening to public access.