36-800: The Skaggs Catholic Center is a 57 acres (230,000 m) school and church campus in Draper , Utah , United States . It is the location of Juan Diego Catholic High School , Saint John the Baptist Middle School, Saint John the Baptist Elementary School, Guardian Angel Daycare, and the St. John the Baptist Parish Catholic church. Opened in 1999, the campus was funded by Leonard Samuel (Sam) Skaggs , Jr. (retired chairman of American Stores ) and his wife Ailene, who donated $ 42 million to build
72-604: A Mormon party from Salt Lake City , Utah led by Jefferson Hunt , that followed the route of Spanish explorers and the Old Spanish Trail across southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona , southern Nevada and the Mojave Desert of California to Los Angeles in 1847. From 1855, it became a military and commercial wagon route between California and Utah, called the Los Angeles – Salt Lake Road . In later decades this route
108-540: A fort was established where the local settlers lived during the winters of 1855 and 1856. The fort was never completed, as the feared hostilities did not materialize, and its former location is now the site of the Draper Historical Park and the aptly-named Fort Street. In the 1940s, Draper was known as the "Egg Basket of Utah." Eggs produced in Draper were marketed from coast to coast, and the co-op furnished eggs for
144-690: A military and commercial wagon road that ran between Salt Lake City , Utah and Los Angeles, California. In Cajon Pass the State of California paid to reroute the road from Coyote Canyon route to the Sanford Cutoff and made improvements to the route as far as the California border. In Utah Territory, the Federal government sent an engineer that built Leach's Cutoff between Cedar City and Mountain Meadow that shortened
180-469: Is a Roman Catholic parish located in Draper, Utah . It is part of the Skaggs Catholic Center along with Juan Diego Catholic High School , Saint John the Baptist Middle School, Saint John the Baptist Elementary School, and Guardian Angel Daycare. 40°32′12″N 111°52′53″W / 40.53667°N 111.88139°W / 40.53667; -111.88139 Draper, Utah Draper
216-873: Is a city in Salt Lake and Utah counties in the U.S. state of Utah , about 20 miles (32 km) south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front . As of the 2020 census, the population is 51,017, up from 7,143 in 1990. Draper is part of two metropolitan areas; the Salt Lake County portion is in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area , while the Utah County portion is in the Provo-Orem metropolitan area . Draper has two UTA TRAX stations (Draper Town Center, 12300/12400 South and Kimball's Lane 11800 South) as well as one on
252-474: Is bordered by Riverton and Bluffdale to the west, South Jordan to the northwest, Sandy to the north, Alpine to the southeast, Highland to the south, and Lehi to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 30.1 square miles (78.0 km ), of which 30.1 square miles (77.9 km ) is land and 0.015 square miles (0.04 km ), or 0.05%,
288-770: Is part of the Salt Lake City DMA and is covered by KSL, FOX13, KUTV, and KTVX. The portion in Salt Lake County is in the Canyons School District . The portion in Utah County is in the Alpine School District . Mormon Road Mormon Road , also known to the 49ers as the Southern Route , of the California Trail in the Western United States , was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by
324-601: Is water. Draper's climate is roughly identical to other Salt Lake City suburbs. However, due to being further away from the Great Salt Lake, varied elevation, and from the downtown urban heat island effect, Draper experiences a slightly drier winter and more extremes in temperatures. The average temperatures in winter and summer, respectively, are 30 °F to 50 °F, and 80 °F to 100 °F. Springs are usually mild and wet, while fall can sometimes become an Indian summer with drier weather. Monsoonal moisture from
360-689: The Amargosa River to Salt Spring then a long dry haul across the Mojave Desert to Bitter Spring and on to the Mojave River at Fork of the Road with the Mohave Trail . From there the route followed the river upstream to the crossing at its lower narrows . There they left the river, crossing the remaining desert to Cajon Summit on Baldy Mesa , then descended past Cajon Pass , through Crowder Canyon and
396-621: The Donner Party , by using this snow free route into California in the fall and winter of 1849–1850. From Parowan onward to the southwest, the original route closely followed the route of the Old Spanish Trail diverting from that route between the Virgin River at Halfway Wash to Resting Springs, following the cutoff discovered by John Frémont on his return from California in 1844. This road only diverted to find places that could be traversed by
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#1733084845543432-692: The Virgin River . Then using John Fremont 's cutoff from the Virgin River at Halfway Wash , crossed southern Nevada , passing over the arid country between the Muddy River and Las Vegas Springs , then over the Spring Mountains at Mountain Springs and Nopah Range beyond through Emigrant Pass to Resting Springs in Southern California . Then, again following the Old Spanish Trail, southwest along
468-632: The Black Ridge grade to the Virgin River, then up the Santa Clara River to link up with the old route of the Mormon Road at Camp Spring . As the Mormons began to settle the area from 1858, they opened stations at Washington and Fort Harmony to provide for feed and provisions to passing freighters for trade goods or cash. In the 1860s the wagon road was a route of trade and migration from California to
504-670: The Draper Family, and William Draper Jr. was soon called to be the presiding elder for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the area. During this time, the Drapers mainly farmed, and Ebenezer Brown ranched and sold cattle to immigrants heading to the gold fields of California along what became the Mormon Road . More settlers moved to Draper in the next few years. Later the area was called South Willow Creek. By 1852, 20 families lived along
540-634: The Mountain , alongside Interstate 15 . State politicians voted to condemn the facility, and prisoners were moved to the Utah State Correctional Facility . The city is home of 1-800 Contacts and a large eBay campus. In the fall of 1849, Ebenezer Brown brought cattle to graze along the mountain stream of South Willow Creek . The next spring, Ebenezer moved with his wife Phebe ("Phebe Draper Palmer Brown") and their family to settle in Sivogah,
576-491: The Native American name for the area, which means "Willows." By the end of 1850, residents of the small settlement consisted of Ebenezer Brown and his three children (by a prior marriage), Phebe Draper Palmer Brown and her two children (by a prior marriage), and Phebe's brother, William Draper Jr. and his large family numbering about fifteen. Consequently, by the end of the settlement's first year, most residents were members of
612-479: The border with Sandy (Crescent View 11400 South). A FrontRunner commuter rail station serves the city's west side. The city has around 5 FLEX bus routes connecting neighboring communities and two bus routes to Lehi Frontrunner Station and River/Herriman, connecting at Draper Town Center and the Draper Frontrunner Stations. The Utah State Prison was located in Draper from 1951 to 2022, near Point of
648-489: The creek. In 1854, the first post office was established with the name Draperville in recognition of William Draper Jr. and its other Draper residents. The town's name in later years was shortened to Draper . (William Draper Sr., father of both William and Phebe Draper, who was older at the time of his family's settlement of Draper is buried in the town cemetery.) Hostilities with the Native Americans began in 1854, and
684-511: The early 1850s found a better route through Cajon Pass along a hogback in the western side of the Upper Cajon Pass overlooked by Baldy Mesa . At the same time along the Mormon Road were being seeded many of the Mormon settlements that developed into towns and cities of modern Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Southern California. By mid-1855 the Mormon Road had been improved and rerouted, to make it
720-563: The facility as a flagship for the Catholic community in predominantly- Mormon Utah . (Sam Skaggs was not a Catholic at the time he conceived the idea, although he later converted.) Upon its opening, the facility was reported to be the largest Catholic education campus in the United States, and the largest gift made for Catholic primary and secondary education. St. John the Baptist Parish
756-479: The fall and winter of 1847–1848. Following Hunt's route back to Utah in 1848 were discharged veterans of the Mormon Battalion , taking the first wagons over the old pack trail. This route created by the returning veterans confirmed that a wagon route could be made from Salt Lake City southwest through southwestern Utah to link to the Old Spanish Trail at Parowan , that then followed the old pack trail, southwest to
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#1733084845543792-613: The gold rush country in Idaho and Montana . It was also the route of continued Mormon colonization of Washington County in Utah Territory and the lower reach of the Virgin River, in northern Arizona Territory, that part that later became Clark County , Nevada. In 1865, the Miller Cutoff was constructed as a freight wagon road, to the north of the Virgin River to bypass the many crossings of that river, its quicksands, its sandy roads and
828-461: The headquarters of 1-800 Contacts , Control4 , HealthEquity , and Pluralsight . Draper is also home to Utah's first IKEA , which opened in 2007. The head office of Synchrony Bank is located in Draper, and the Rocky Mountain regional headquarters of Goldman Sachs is located in a nearby plaza. According to the city's Popular Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018,
864-818: The late fall and returned by the end of the spring season, ending the isolation of Utah when the passes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Rocky Mountains were closed by snow. In California, the road became known as the Los Angeles – Salt Lake Road or Salt Lake Road , and in Utah and Nevada, the California Road . In 1858, following the Mountain Meadows Massacre , the Dukes-Turner wagon company pioneered an alternate wagon route to avoid Leach's Cutoff and Mountain Meadow. It ran from Cedar City southward via
900-633: The lower Cajon Canyon to the San Bernardino Valley . The road crossed the valley to the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino and then followed the Sonora Road from there west to the pueblo of Los Angeles . The first large use of the route pioneered by Hunt and the Veterans were hundreds of late arriving Forty-niners , and some parties of Mormons, both packers and teamsters, looking to avoid the fate of
936-567: The military troops in the South Pacific during WWII. The poultry business was the single most important economic industry in Draper during this time. One large poultry farm was the Washburn Poultry Farm, run by Bruce D. Washburn, with over 10,000 chickens during the 1950s. Draper remained a small farming community until the late 1990s when its population began growing exponentially from 7,257 in 1990 to an estimated 47,710 in 2018. Draper
972-586: The rail-heads as the rails advanced southwestward in Utah between the 1870s and 1890s. However, as a long-haul road it remained in use in Southern California until the Santa Fe Railroad came to Southern California in 1883. The northern Mojave Desert region of California, southern Nevada, and northwestern Arizona still used the road until the Salt Lake Route was built through them in 1903–1905. In
1008-433: The route between Johnson Springs (now known as Enoch ) and the meadow by 15 miles (24 km), avoiding the longer route via Cedar Spring, Antelope Spring, Pyute Creek to Road Springs at the lower end of Mountain Meadow. The road was also rerouted between Cove Creek to the crossing of Beaver River at modern Beaver , 3 miles (4.8 km) upriver from the old one at what in 1861 became the site of Greenville . This change
1044-485: The south usually brings afternoon thunderstorms in July and August. Draper falls on the border of the humid continental/subtropical climatic zones and is technically a cool/warm semi-arid desert environment, but with summer monsoonal moisture. Snow usually falls regularly from November through March. 2010 Census Information Draper is home to the tech call center of PGP Corporation , the call center of Musician's Friend , and
1080-509: The steep road into and out of the river valley at Virgin Hill . It ran between the old road at Castle Cliff , west to Mormon Well 12 miles (19 km) up Beaver Dam Creek from the Virgin River, then westward south of the mountains, to rejoin the old road on Mormon Mesa, south of Mormon Mountain . With the advent of the transcontinental railroad in Utah in 1869, the wagon road was used decreasingly when long-haul wagons were replaced by wagons from
1116-647: The technique of doubling up the wagon teams that was required to get wagons over the worst part of the climb. The new route passed through more wagon-friendly terrain in Nevershine Hollow and over Beaver Ridge into the canyon of Fremont Wash where it rejoined the original road. This route is the one Interstate 15 runs along today. The road then soon became a winter seasonal route for trains of wagons carrying goods shipped by sea from San Francisco to San Pedro and then to Los Angeles. The trains left Los Angeles, (and later San Bernardino ), for Salt Lake City during
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1152-461: The top employers in the city are: Newspapers, Magazines, and Newsletter The Draper City Journal is a tabloid-style newspaper covering local government, schools, sports, and features. Delivered to homes directly monthly by mail. Draper City publishes a bi-monthly city newsletter entitled "Draper Forward." This publication is mailed to all of the residents in Draper City. Television Draper
1188-468: The wagons of Mormon and Forty-niner parties that pioneered it. The principal change was the shortcut from the Virgin River where the road ascended to Mormon Mesa at Virgin Hill, crossed the mesa to the Muddy River and its crossing at California Wash . This saved the longer route to Halfway Wash through the quicksands along the Virgin River. The later immigrants and the Mormon colonists of San Bernardino, in
1224-666: Was incorporated as a city in 1978. Draper City is nestled in the far southeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley, with the Wasatch Mountain Range on the east and the Traverse Ridge Mountain on the south. At the Point of the Mountain, Draper is known for being one of the most popular and best wind areas in the country for hang gliding and paragliding. Draper lies roughly midway between Salt Lake City and Provo . Draper
1260-463: Was made with the major alteration from the new Beaver River crossing to Muley Point to shorten the route and avoid a difficult section of 6 miles (9.7 km) up California Hollow and over a steep mountain ridge in the Black Mountains , better suited to the Old Spanish Trail mule trains than wagons. The terrain feature called Doubleup Hollow at the point that steep ascent began is indicative of
1296-429: Was variously called the " Old Mormon Road ", the " Old Southern Road ", or the " Immigrant Road " in California. In Utah, Arizona and Nevada it was known as the " California Road ". The wagon road later called the "Mormon Road" was pioneered by a Mormon party with pack horses, led by Jefferson Hunt, intent on obtaining supplies for the struggling, newly founded Salt Lake City, traveling to and from Southern California in
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