Are you familiar with the history and why they did it? SLC is a grid of squares, which seems somewhat unusual for American grid-based cities. But then, I went

Are you familiar with the history and why they did it? SLC is a grid of squares, which seems somewhat unusual for American grid-based cities. But then, I went and zoomed in on Nauvoo, IL and it has the exact same squared grid, quite possibly even the same size squares. But if you look at the 3 cities on the Iowa side of the river - Burlington, Fort Madison and Keokuk - they also have pretty close to that same grid. Did the church pick it up there and take it with them? Because if I’m not mistaken, those cities predate the church presence. As an aside, generally all of the Iowa cities along the Mississippi have astonishingly good grids and urbanity despite giving the feeling that they are part of America from long ago (the Illinois side too - go visit Quincy IL sometime). Burlington even has their own crooked-road-on-steep-hill, built 30 years before Lombard Street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Alley_(Burlington,_Iowa) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Alley_(Burlington,_Iow...