Neighborhoods

Magna

The Salt Lake Valley has several Mayberry R.F.D.-type communities, and Magna is certainly one of them. This close-knit, friendly town was founded in 1891 and soon became renowned for its copper mines in nearby Bingham Canyon. When the Utah Copper Company (later known as the Kennecott Copper Corporation) was founded in the early 1900s, workers moved to Magna to be close to their jobs. Although the town is growing and many new homes now dot the town’s landscape, Main Street looks much the same as it did nearly 100 years ago. Magna begins at the Salt Lake City limits on 2100 S. and runs to 4100 S. and from 7200 W. to the Oquirrh Mountains, and covers about 4,200 acres.