Cottonwood, Utah

Cottonwood, Utah, has historically referred to a vaguely defined area between and around Big Cottonwood Creek and Little Cottonwood Creek in the Salt Lake Valley:

• Holladay, Utah, a city that was called Holladay-Cottonwood at the time of its incorporation as a temporary compromise between the names Holladay and Cottonwood
• Cottonwood Mall (Utah), the repeatedly delayed redevelopment of which has sometimes been promoted as intending to create a definitive center for Cottonwood
• Cottonwood Heights, Utah, a city that includes the southeastern part of the area to which the name applies and the only incorporated place named for Cottonwood
• Cottonwood West, Utah, a former census-designated place within Cottonwood that ceased to exist due to annexation by Murray
• Murray, Utah, a city that includes the western part of the area to which the name applies

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