Highland Utah Map

About Highland, Utah

Highland is a locality in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It has a population of 19,348. The population density is 858.3 people per km². Highland is located at 40.4275°N, 111.7957°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Highland is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 84044, 84003.

Highland reveals itself as a series of terraced benches and dry, sage-dusted slopes that rise from the floor of Little Valley Wash. The air here holds a crisp, thin clarity, often carrying the scent of parched earth and scrub brush as the light shifts into the long, violet shadows of late afternoon. At the edge of the horizon, the distant, jagged peaks of the Wasatch Range loom in shades of bruised indigo, anchoring the view while the immediate terrain remains defined by low, open plains and the quiet stillness of Unknown Park. On quiet days, the landscape feels vast and undisturbed, as if the land itself were waiting for the heat to break before it breathes again.

Settlers originally carved Highland out of the high, arid ground to harness the potential of the soil, moving away from the more crowded valleys to establish a life built on resilience and small-scale cultivation. While the regional economy has shifted from early agricultural roots to a modern, suburban pace, the town remains marked by a certain deliberate composure, where the movement of people is as steady as the flow of Coon Creek miles away. Life here maintains a focus on the domestic, punctuated by the occasional drone of equipment near Kennecott Tailings Pond Number One or the quiet activity of families navigating the neighborhood streets. Highland persists as a place where the history of the frontier is not found in grand monuments, but in the simple, enduring geometry of fences and roads that divide the wide, open spaces.

About This Highland Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Highland, Utah. Coordinates: 40.427549, -111.795695. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Highland includes the ZIP code (84044, 84003), telephone area code (801, 385), county seat of Salt Lake County (Salt Lake City), and school district assignment (Alpine School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.