Millcreek City: Utah's newest municipality

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l-r Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune
Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

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Millcreek council member Dwight Marchant laughs after flubbing the words of his oath spoken first by Greg Marchant, left. Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune
Millcreek City residents watch as their first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

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Millcreek city council member Cheri Jackson, right, shares a laugh with Patrice Arent, left, who swore Jackson into office. Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune
Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini, above, and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

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Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek council member Dwight Marchant laughs after flubbing the words of his oath spoken first by Greg Marchant, left. Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City residents watch as their first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City residents watch as their first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek city council member Cheri Jackson, right, shares a laugh with Patrice Arent, left, who swore Jackson into office. Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi, (center) recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini, above, and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High. Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Millcreek City's first mayor Jeff Silvestrini and city council members; Sylvia Catten, Dwight Marchant, Cheri Jackson and Bev Uipi recited their oaths of office at a ceremony kicking off a celebration of the community becoming the 17th city in Salt Lake County, Tuesday, January 4, 2017 at Wasatch Junior High.

The Salt Lake Tribune

· January 3, 2017 9:39 pm

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Oaths of office were administered Tuesday to Mayor Jeff Silvestrini and four members of the inaugural Millcreek City Council — Bev Uipi, Cheri Jackson, Dwight Marchant and Sylvia Catten.

Millcreek becomes the 17th city in Salt Lake County, the first to incorporate since Cottonwood Heights in 2005.

Salt Lake City was the first, in 1847, and for the next century only a half dozen more cities were established — Sandy (1893), Murray (1903), Midvale (1910), South Jordan (1937) and South Salt Lake (1938). Riverton and West Jordan both became cities in 1947, the Town of Alta formed in 1970, and the years 1978-80 led to the creations of Draper, Bluffdale and West Valley City.

Since then, they were joined by Taylorsville (1996), Herriman and Holladay (1999) and Cottonwood Heights.