Facts About Utah
State Name - Ute Indian word meaning "home on mountain top"
State Capital - Salt Lake City
Population: 2,699,554 (2007 Estimate)
Statehood Day - January 4, 1896 (45th state)
Land Area: 84,916 sq. mi, 65% of the state of Utah is owned by the federal government.
Highest and Lowest Point:
King's Peak 13,528 ft (Uinta Mountains, Duchesne Co. - NE part of state)
Beaver Dam Wash 2,350 ft. (Near St. George, Washington Co. SW part of state
Famous Utahans: Phyllis McGinley, Pulitzer Prize winning poet; Harold Ross, started The New Yorker Magazine; Stephen Covey, author; Bernard DeVoto, Pulitzer Prize winner; Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy outlaw; John M. Browning – guns; Philo T. Farnsworth - vacuum tube for television;
Debbie Fields - Mrs. Fields Cookies: Karl Malone – basketball; Merlin Olsen – football; Alma Richards – Olympic gold medalist; John Stockton – basketball; Golf Greats- Mike Reid; Dan Forsman, &Johnny Miller
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