Cottonwood Heights is a city located in
Salt Lake County,
Utah,
United States, along the east bench of the
Salt Lake Valley. It lies south of the cities of
Holladay and
Murray, east of
Midvale, and north of
Sandy within the
Salt Lake City, Utah
Metropolitan Statistical Area. Following a successful incorporation referendum in May 2004, the city was incorporated on January 14, 2005. Cottonwood Heights had been a
Census-designated place (CDP) before incorporation. The population as of the
2010 census was 33,433. This is a significant increase over the CDP's
2000 census count of 27,569.