Hideout is a town in the northwestern corner of

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, United States, in the northern part of the state. Lying just to the north and east of

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along Utah State Route 248 (SR-248), the town was incorporated in 2008 under short-lived state law. The population was 656 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Hideout lies about east-southeast of

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, in an area of the

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known for its

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s and other upscale recreation. The Hideout town boundaries extend from the Todd Hollow Apartments, at the northernmost point of Jordanelle Reservoir, south and east along SR-248, running past the submerged ruins of the

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of Keetley. It stops just at the Summit County line, some west-southwest of

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. The town includes the luxury planned communities of Hideout Canyon and Soaring Hawk, both still under development.

Climate

Large seasonal temperature differences typify this

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region, with warm to hot summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to

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, Hideout experiences an average daytime high temperature of 87 degrees in July. The highest recorded temperature was 101 °F in 2002. December is the average coolest month. The lowest recorded temperature was -31 °F in 1990. October is the average wettest month, with 1.76 inches of precipitation.

History

In 2005, Mustang Development Company and Wasatch County entered into a development agreement to develop Hideout Canyon. In 2007, Mustang successfully

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the

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to pass H.B. 466. This

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, backed by the

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and passed unanimously by the Legislature, amended the state law on

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s to incorporate a town. The new provisions allowed a petition for a new town with 100–999 residents to be filed with just the signatures of the owners of a majority of the land area, even a single majority landowner. There was no requirement to ask the residents' consent. If the petition met the conditions of state law and its signers owned the majority of the land by value, the new law required the county government to grant the petition and appoint a

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and

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from a list of individuals approved by the petitioners. In July 2007, Ruby's Inn, in Garfield County, became the first to take advantage of the new law, incorporating as Bryce Canyon City. A petition to incorporate Hideout was filed in November 2007 by Richard Sprung, a

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for Hideout Canyon. By then two other such petitions were pending in Wasatch County: Aspen (ultimately unsuccessful) and

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. In February 2008, the Wasatch County Council voted to allow the Todd Hollow Apartments, home to the vast majority of the proposed town's population, to opt-out of the incorporation plan, citing a state law permitting "non-urban" properties to opt-out. The Council then denied the petition for insufficient population. By March 2008, the Legislature had amended the law again, unanimously passing H.B. 164, which required a petition for incorporation to have the support of half the residents, and provided for an elected mayor and town council. There must also be at least five petition sponsors who were not allowed to own more than 40 percent of the land. An effort to make the new law retroactive failed, and petitions filed under H.B. 466 went forward. Sprung sued in state court, insisting that Todd Hollow was urban. The court ruled in Sprung's favor, ordering the county to grant the petition. The County Council voted to grant Hideout incorporation in June 2008.

Demographics

At Hideout's incorporation, the Utah Population Estimates Committee produced an official population estimate of 820. Most of the town's residents live in the Todd Hollow Apartments, with luxury homes scattered between Todd Hollow and the Hideout Canyon development. As of the

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of 2010, 656 people were living in the town. The

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of the town was 46.0% White, 1.1% Black or African American, 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5% Asian, 51.5% from some other race, and 0.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 77.0% of the population, making Hideout one of two Utah municipalities (along with

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) that are "

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". There were 217 housing units, of which 191 were occupied. Only six units, with 16 residents, or 2.4% of the population, were owner-occupied. In the 2017 election for Hideout town council, 177 votes were cast.

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