city, Salt Lake county, north-central Utah, U.S., on the Jordan River, near the Wasatch Range. Founded by Mormons in 1847, it was named for Eli H. Murray, governor of Utah Territory from 1880 to 1886. An extension of the Union Pacific Railroad (Union Pacific Railroad Company) (1870) through the site aided the development of Murray as a smelting centre for nearby mining operations and as a regionally important brickyard. Now a suburb of Salt Lake City, it is also a trading and shipping outlet for irrigated farm produce (sugar beets, alfalfa, and potatoes). Inc. 1902. Pop. (1970) 21,206; (1990) 31,282; (2000) 34,024.