Editing South Jordan, Utah (section)

==Geography==

[[File:SaltLakeMap.png|left|thumb|alt=A map showing the Salt Lake Valley. It shows the locations of the cities inside the valley with mountain ranges on either side of the valley.|Map of the Salt Lake Valley]]

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|22.22|sqmi|km2|sigfig=2}}, of which {{convert|0.09|sqmi|km2}}, 0.4 percent, is water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2019" />

The relative flatness of South Jordan is due to lacustrine sediments of a [[pleistocene]] lake called [[Lake Bonneville]].  Lake Bonneville existed from 75,000 to 8,000 years ago; at its peak some 30,000 years ago, the lake reached an elevation of {{convert|5200|ft|m}} above sea level and had a surface area of {{convert|19800|sqmi|km2}}.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Brimhall | first1=Willis H. | last2=Merritt | first2=Lavere B. | title=Geology of Utah Lake: Implications for Resource Management | journal=Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs | issue= 5: Utah Lake Monograph | year=1981 | pages=25–27 | url=https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/ojs/index.php/gbnmem/article/view/2942/3290 | access-date=April 19, 2010}}</ref>   The elevation of South Jordan ranges from approximately {{convert|4300|ft|m}} near the Jordan River in the east and rises gently to the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains at {{convert|5200|ft|m}}.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://earth.gis.usu.edu/utah/basic.phtml | title=Virtual Utah | publisher=Utah State | access-date=April 19, 2010 | archive-date=June 18, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618044351/http://earth.gis.usu.edu/utah/basic.phtml | url-status=dead }}</ref>