Stansbury Park, Utah
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Stansbury Park is a census-designated place
(CDP) in Tooele County
, Utah, United States. The population was 2,385 at the 2000 census; the 1990 census population was 1,049.
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, Utah.
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 court
s, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard
park, and an astronomical observatory
. A large park northwest of Utah State Route 138
is being developed and will open in 2012. In addition, 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 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).
3 holes are over water and 16 of the holes have water hazards. In the winter time, Stansbury Park is often the only course open in the greater Salt Lake City area. The course has a clubhouse with food service, a pro shop
, putting green and driving range
.
The Harmon's astronomical observatory, the Stansbury Park Observing Complex, is at the north end near the skateboard park. The observatory boasts a 40 cm (16") Ealing reflector, an 81 cm (32") reflector and a 200mm (8") refractor along with computerized tracking and CCD imaging capabilities. The facility is owned and operated by the Salt Lake Astronomical Society.
As of 2009 there were five church buildings in Stansbury Park, all units of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). An LDS building northwest of the Benson Grist Mill was placed into service in early 2009; that area was not part of the original Stansbury Park proposal, but since its water and sewer are provided by the Stansbury Park Improvement District, it is now considered an integral part of the development.
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 2009 the community was not incorporated; thus all municipal services (except for water and sewer service) are provided by Tooele County.
from the Tooele (Utah) Post Office, ZIP 84074.
Culinary water
for Stansbury Park comes from deep wells
about 2 miles southeast of the park, east of Utah State Route 36
). Originally, the golf course was watered from another deep well within the Park boundary at the southeast corner, but that water had such a high level of hardness
that it was abandoned in 1985 and the culinary water now also is used on the golf course. Sewer
service is provided by a lagoon complex northwest (north of Utah State Route 138
). These services are administered by the Stansbury Park Improvement District.
The golf course, swimming pool, and common areas within Stansbury Park were originally administered by two separate service districts (Stansbury Greenbelt Service Area No. 1 and SGSA #2), but since August 1992 have been administered by a combined district, the Stansbury Service Agency, whose volunteer, unpaid board members are elected by the population.
Woodland Park, near the southeast end of Stansbury Park, contains trees which existed before the development started. The park area was the site of a large horse stable complex before and during the first part of the area's present development. It contains a children's playground and a basketball court.
Benson Grist Mill, north of Stansbury Park, is a restoration of an actual nineteenth-century water-powered (powered by waterflow from The Mill Pond) wheat-grinding mill built on that site, and has grown into a recreational and historical interest area.
Stansbury Lake, southwest of The Mill Pond, is a manmade lake. A peninsula which extends into the lake, called Captain's Island, contains 178 houses, and there are another 143 houses along the lake's shores. The lake is noted for its boating (non-motor-powered boats only, although electric motors are now allowed), swimming, and fishing. Resident fish include bluegill, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, grass carp, and yellow perch. Black crappie were planted at one time but have apparently not continued.
The original addressing scheme for Stansbury Park was to divide the area into neighborhoods, each with a name and with the houses therein to be numbered from 1 to XXX. The three original neighborhoods were Country Club, Lake View, and Mill Pond (which consisted of blocks of condominium
s rather than individual houses). This addressing system is confusing to resident and outsider alike, and areas developed since 1990 have abandoned that concept, instead using individual street names and house numbers which integrate into the Tooele City
numbering system (although the starting point of Tooele City's numbering system is some seven miles distant).
Stansbury Park has an active community association, originally named the Stansbury Park Homeowners Association, but now named the Stansbury Park Community Association. This organization grants preliminary approval to housing and remodeling plans within the service area (Tooele County Engineering Department grants final approval), and organizes outdoor activities such as Stansbury Days every third Saturday in August, Easter Egg hunts, gardening classes and other local celebrations such as fireworks displays on holidays. It publishes an annual telephone/address directory covering the area.
According to the United States Census Bureau
, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km²), of which, 1.3 square miles (3.3 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (12.84%) is water.
Stansbury Park is approximately 24 miles (30 minutes) from the Salt Lake International Airport
, and 1.22% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.53% of the population.
There were 701 households out of which 55.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 83.5% were married couples living together, 4.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 10.8% were non-families. 9.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.40 and the average family size was 3.64.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 37.7% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 2.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.9 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $66,295, and the median income for a family was $67,930. Males had a median income of $47,008 versus $31,477 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $20,347. None of the families and 0.3% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64.
Census-designated place
A census-designated place is a concentration of population identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes. CDPs are delineated for each decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places such as cities, towns and villages...
(CDP) in Tooele County
Tooele County, Utah
Tooele County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of 2000, the population was 40,735 and by 2005 was estimated at 51,311. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele....
, Utah, United States. The population was 2,385 at the 2000 census; the 1990 census population was 1,049.
Stansbury Park is located in the northern end of Tooele Valley at the base of the Oquirrh Mountains
Oquirrh Mountains
The Oquirrh Mountains is a mountain range that run north-south for approximately 30 miles to form the west side of Utah's Salt Lake Valley, separating it from Tooele Valley. The range begins in northwest Utah County and stops at the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. The highest elevation is...
. Traveling by Interstate 80, Stansbury Park is 35 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.
Stansbury Park was proposed by the original developer (Terracor) as a planned community
Planned community
A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are less frequent in planned communities since...
with a lake for sailing and canoeing, an eighteen-hole golf course
Golf course
A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...
, clubhouse
Community centre
Community centres or community centers or jumping recreation centers are public locations where members of a community tend to gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes. They may sometimes be open for the whole community or for a specialised group within...
, 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 court
Basketball court
In basketball, the basketball court is the playing surface, consisting of a rectangular floor with tiles at either end. In professional or organized basketball, especially when played indoors, it is usually made out of a wood, often maple, and highly polished...
s, tennis courts, play areas for children, skateboard
Skatepark
A skatepark is a purpose-built recreational environment made for skateboarding, BMX, aggressive inline skating and scooters. A skatepark may contain half-pipes, quarter pipes, spine transfers, handrails, funboxes, vert ramps, pyramids, banked ramps, full pipes, pools, bowls, snake runs stairsets,...
park, and an astronomical observatory
Observatory
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed...
. A large park northwest of Utah State Route 138
Utah State Route 138
State Route 138 is a highway completely within Tooele County in northern Utah that connects Grantsville to Erda and Stansbury Park. The route runs twenty miles and is the old routing of U.S. Route 50 Alternate and U.S...
is being developed and will open in 2012. In addition, a natural lake (The Mill Pond) exists on the northern edge of the area; it is fed by a spring
Spring (hydrosphere)
A spring—also known as a rising or resurgence—is a component of the hydrosphere. Specifically, it is any natural situation where water flows to the surface of the earth from underground...
at its southeast end. The water from this lake is piped around the Oquirrh Mountain Range (east of Stansbury Park) to the Kennecott Company
Kennecott Utah Copper
Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation , a division of Rio Tinto Group, is a mining, smelting, and refining company. Its corporate headquarters are located in South Jordan, Utah, USA. Kennecott operates one of the largest open-pit copper mines in the world in Bingham Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. ...
'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).
Recreation
The 18-hole public golf course runs through the center of Stansbury Park. It contains 14 lakes. All the parPar (score)
The word "par" is a term in the game of golf used to denote the pre-determined number of strokes that a scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, a round , or a tournament...
3 holes are over water and 16 of the holes have water hazards. In the winter time, Stansbury Park is often the only course open in the greater Salt Lake City area. The course has a clubhouse with food service, a pro shop
Pro shop
A pro shop is a sporting-goods shop within a public or private-membership amateur sporting activities facility of some kind, most commonly a golf course, where it will typically be located in the country club building...
, putting green and driving range
Driving range
A driving range is an area where golfers can practice their swing. It can also be a recreational activity itself for amateur golfers or when enough time for a full game is not available. Many golf courses have a driving range attached and they are also found as stand-alone facilities, especially...
.
The Harmon's astronomical observatory, the Stansbury Park Observing Complex, is at the north end near the skateboard park. The observatory boasts a 40 cm (16") Ealing reflector, an 81 cm (32") reflector and a 200mm (8") refractor along with computerized tracking and CCD imaging capabilities. The facility is owned and operated by the Salt Lake Astronomical Society.
Schools and churches
Stansbury Park has three public-education schools: two elementary schools (K through 6th grades) and one high school. Stansbury Elementary opened in 1979, Rose Springs Elementary opened in 2005.Stansbury High School (9th through 12th), southwest of Rose Springs Elementary School, opened in August 2009.As of 2009 there were five church buildings in Stansbury Park, all units of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). An LDS building northwest of the Benson Grist Mill was placed into service in early 2009; that area was not part of the original Stansbury Park proposal, but since its water and sewer are provided by the Stansbury Park Improvement District, it is now considered an integral part of the development.
The area includes several businesses, clustered in two developments at the southeast and northeast corners of the area along Utah State Route 36
Utah State Route 36
State Route 36 is a highway in northern Utah connecting US-6 in northern Juab County to I-80 in northern Tooele County.-Route description:From its southern terminus west of Eureka, SR-36 heads northwest until Vernon, where it turns north...
.
As of 2009 the community was not incorporated; thus all municipal services (except for water and sewer service) are provided by Tooele County.
Miscellaneous
Stansbury Park receives mail serviceUnited States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
from the Tooele (Utah) Post Office, ZIP 84074.
Culinary water
Water supply network
A water supply system or water supply network is a system of engineered hydrologic and hydraulic components which provide water supply. A water supply system typically includes:# A drainage basin ;...
for Stansbury Park comes from deep wells
Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn by an electric submersible pump, a trash pump, a vertical turbine pump, a handpump or a mechanical pump...
about 2 miles southeast of the park, east of Utah State Route 36
Utah State Route 36
State Route 36 is a highway in northern Utah connecting US-6 in northern Juab County to I-80 in northern Tooele County.-Route description:From its southern terminus west of Eureka, SR-36 heads northwest until Vernon, where it turns north...
). Originally, the golf course was watered from another deep well within the Park boundary at the southeast corner, but that water had such a high level of hardness
Hard water
Hard water is water that has high mineral content . Hard water has high concentrations of Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions. Hard water is generally not harmful to one's health but can pose serious problems in industrial settings, where water hardness is monitored to avoid costly breakdowns in boilers, cooling...
that it was abandoned in 1985 and the culinary water now also is used on the golf course. Sewer
Sanitary sewer
A sanitary sewer is a separate underground carriage system specifically for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings to treatment or disposal. Sanitary sewers serving industrial areas also carry industrial wastewater...
service is provided by a lagoon complex northwest (north of Utah State Route 138
Utah State Route 138
State Route 138 is a highway completely within Tooele County in northern Utah that connects Grantsville to Erda and Stansbury Park. The route runs twenty miles and is the old routing of U.S. Route 50 Alternate and U.S...
). These services are administered by the Stansbury Park Improvement District.
The golf course, swimming pool, and common areas within Stansbury Park were originally administered by two separate service districts (Stansbury Greenbelt Service Area No. 1 and SGSA #2), but since August 1992 have been administered by a combined district, the Stansbury Service Agency, whose volunteer, unpaid board members are elected by the population.
Woodland Park, near the southeast end of Stansbury Park, contains trees which existed before the development started. The park area was the site of a large horse stable complex before and during the first part of the area's present development. It contains a children's playground and a basketball court.
Benson Grist Mill, north of Stansbury Park, is a restoration of an actual nineteenth-century water-powered (powered by waterflow from The Mill Pond) wheat-grinding mill built on that site, and has grown into a recreational and historical interest area.
Stansbury Lake, southwest of The Mill Pond, is a manmade lake. A peninsula which extends into the lake, called Captain's Island, contains 178 houses, and there are another 143 houses along the lake's shores. The lake is noted for its boating (non-motor-powered boats only, although electric motors are now allowed), swimming, and fishing. Resident fish include bluegill, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, grass carp, and yellow perch. Black crappie were planted at one time but have apparently not continued.
The original addressing scheme for Stansbury Park was to divide the area into neighborhoods, each with a name and with the houses therein to be numbered from 1 to XXX. The three original neighborhoods were Country Club, Lake View, and Mill Pond (which consisted of blocks of condominium
Condominium
A condominium, or condo, is the form of housing tenure and other real property where a specified part of a piece of real estate is individually owned while use of and access to common facilities in the piece such as hallways, heating system, elevators, exterior areas is executed under legal rights...
s rather than individual houses). This addressing system is confusing to resident and outsider alike, and areas developed since 1990 have abandoned that concept, instead using individual street names and house numbers which integrate into the Tooele City
Tooele, Utah
Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 30,708 as of the 2009 estimates. It is the county seat of Tooele County...
numbering system (although the starting point of Tooele City's numbering system is some seven miles distant).
Stansbury Park has an active community association, originally named the Stansbury Park Homeowners Association, but now named the Stansbury Park Community Association. This organization grants preliminary approval to housing and remodeling plans within the service area (Tooele County Engineering Department grants final approval), and organizes outdoor activities such as Stansbury Days every third Saturday in August, Easter Egg hunts, gardening classes and other local celebrations such as fireworks displays on holidays. It publishes an annual telephone/address directory covering the area.
Geography
Stansbury Park is located at 40°38′15"N 112°18′3"W (40.637514, −112.300723).According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data...
, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.8 km²), of which, 1.3 square miles (3.3 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (12.84%) is water.
Stansbury Park is approximately 24 miles (30 minutes) from the Salt Lake International Airport
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,385 people, 701 households, and 625 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,842.7 people per square mile (713.8/km²). There were 718 housing units at an average density of 554.7/sq mi (214.9/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 95.60% White, 0.50% African American, 0.71% Native American, 0.59% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.34% from other racesRace (United States Census)
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the Federal Office of Management and Budget and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are...
, and 1.22% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.53% of the population.
There were 701 households out of which 55.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 83.5% were married couples living together, 4.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 10.8% were non-families. 9.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 1.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.40 and the average family size was 3.64.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 37.7% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 2.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.9 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $66,295, and the median income for a family was $67,930. Males had a median income of $47,008 versus $31,477 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $20,347. None of the families and 0.3% of the population were living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and none of those over 64.