Cedar City communities.

The original town: the grid Cedar City grew from, with the university, the Shakespeare Festival, and Main Street at its center and Coal Creek coming out of the canyon on the east edge. Homes here are mostly established under mature trees, in a walkable pattern the newer areas cannot copy, with townhome pockets that put campus within walking distance.

The bench rises between north Main and the red foothills, catching valley views and trail access on the same streets. Fiddlers Canyon anchors the area, the Cedar Ridge Golf Course sits at its foot, and custom builds keep filling the upper lots while townhomes hold the entry along Fiddlers Canyon Road.

North Main and Northfield Road carry the everyday middle of town: Cedar City Hospital, five decades of subdivisions, and more townhome and twin-home communities than any other area. Established trees on one block, brand-new construction two streets over. Townhome shoppers should also browse the dedicated Cedar City townhomes page.

Follow Main past the edge of town and the valley opens up: Midvalley Road runs toward Enoch through the market's most active new-construction corridor, from compact starter lots to acre-plus estate ground where animals are allowed. Some of it sits in unincorporated Iron County, so water and services vary; each community page spells that out. New-build shoppers should also watch the new construction page.

Out past the airport, the northwest is where the valley grows fastest and loosens up the most: new subdivisions around Lund Highway, the valley's signature horse community, and parcels stretching toward the 6,500-acre Three Peaks Recreation Area with its 27-plus miles of trails. Horse property hunters should also see the horse property page.

West of downtown the blocks run from 1990s brick streets to subdivisions so new the sod is still rolling out. Highway 56 is the spine: the city soccer complex, Iron Springs trail country, and a steady share of the valley's twin-home and townhome construction sit along it, and the addresses climb past 4500 West before town gives way to ranch ground.

The hills between downtown and I-15 carry the view addresses: Mesa Hills and its sub-communities climbing Leigh Hill above the Aquatic Center and Lake at the Hills, wooded acreage in the Cross Hollow hills, and master-planned slopes in between. Walkout basements, custom streets, and long sunset light are the signatures here.

The south end runs from Providence Center's shopping at the I-15 interchange up onto the 6,200-foot south bench, and it is where Cedar City is building hardest: townhomes by the freeway, new single-family streets at the foothills, and custom view lots above it all, with the Iron Hills trail system threading through the whole stretch.

Past the last stoplight, Cedar City turns into its landscapes: Cedar Highlands in the pines up Right Hand Canyon, off-grid cabin country beyond it, and the west valley's ranch ground, where wells, septic systems, and animal rights are the norm rather than the exception.

One recorded subdivision whose exact part of town I have not pinned down precisely enough to file above. It moves into its area as I verify it on the ground. That is the standard this index holds itself to: filed right or flagged honestly.