Salt Lake City is located in Salt Lake County, Utah and is named after the Great Salt Lake which borders the city. Prior to settlement by early pioneers, the area was inhabited by the Shoshone, Weber Ute, and Paiute Indian tribes.Though several expeditions came through Utah as they surveyed the land, the Salt Lake area was not permanently settled until July of 1847. At that time, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints entered the valley in search of refuge from the religious persecution they had suffered in the United States.