Magna Township is under the direction of unincorporated Salt Lake County. Any licensing, planing & zoning or other government services in Magna can be found through the county.

Magna is a census-designated place (CDP) and township in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. The population was 22,770, at the 2000 census, a moderate increase over the 1990 figure of 17,829. Magna is home to the Kennecott Smokestack, the tallest free-standing structure in the United States west of the Missisippi River.