Clearfield, the city that was built from its edges inward.

For two federal installations and for what they left behind. Construction of the air field on its eastern boundary began in 1940, and in 1942 the Navy took 841 acres of farm ground on the western side and commissioned the Clearfield Naval Supply Depot there on 10 April 1943, with 84 storage buildings, more than 8.3 million square feet under roof and 38 miles of railroad track inside the fence. The Navy left in 1962 and the site became the Freeport Center, a private warehousing and manufacturing district that still occupies 680 acres of the city. The city is also known for what it does not have, which is a historic main street.

Because it grew inward from two edges rather than outward from a centre. The air field arrived on the eastern boundary in 1940 and the naval supply depot on the western side in 1942 and 1943, and the residential grid between them filled in as housing for people working at one installation or the other. A commercial core never formed. That is why the city's largest current project is a downtown being constructed from nothing on 56 acres of Utah Transit Authority land beside the commuter rail platform, with about $28 million spent on roads, utilities and landscaping before any building went up.

From a tax law, not a place or a person. A free port is a customs and tax term for a zone where stored goods are exempt from inventory taxation. The 1963 editor's note in the Utah Historical Quarterly records that the Utah Legislature that year passed a favourable taxing procedure popularly known as the freeport legislation, which made it far more likely that the closing naval depot would serve as a distribution centre for the western states. The operator's own site still explains the advantage the same way: no inventory taxes are assessed on inventory stored within the state.

The south entrance. Utah Code 72-4-125, read at le.utah.gov on 16 August 2026 in the version effective 7 May 2025, defines SR-193 as running from Route 110 in West Point easterly through Syracuse, Clearfield and Layton, past the south entrance to Hill Air Force Base to Route 89. The practical city guide on this site names a western entrance in four places including inside its own FAQ structured data, and on the codified definition of the road that is the wrong one. Gate names and gate hours change and are published by the base, so check them there rather than on any page about them, including this one.

No. The city states it in one flat sentence on its own resident payment page, checked in August 2026: Clearfield City does not provide secondary or irrigation water. What the city does bill for is culinary water, sewer, garbage and recyclable collection and storm water, all on one account. Secondary irrigation availability at a specific address is therefore a property level question rather than a city level one, it changes a summer bill materially, and no successor provider is named by the city. Ask about it at the address before assuming either way.

Mostly from a conservancy district. The city's own 2024 Utah Public Water Supply Use Form, filed with the state in March 2025, reports 6,006.57 acre feet from all sources, of which 5,112.68 acre feet was purchased from the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District and 893.89 acre feet came from the city's own diversions. That is roughly 85 per cent bought in. The city ran one well hard that year, the Reservoir Well at 871.19 acre feet, and used a second, Freeport Well 1, only during July. The filing also reports 7,521 active connections and a peak day demand of 10,836,174 gallons on 15 July 2024.

Not on the most recent reporting. The Department of Labor announced in May 2025 that it would shut 99 contractor operated Job Corps centres nationally, Clearfield's among them. Seven students challenged that in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., represented by Public Citizen and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and on 12 August 2026 the Deseret News reported that a settlement had been reached which, in Public Citizen's words, protects all 99 centers and rescinds those termination notices. A settlement reported four days ago is not a docketed final judgment, so verify the current status at the Department of Labor before relying on it.

Seventeen named parks, plus a skate park and a dog park as facilities inside two of them, all published with hours of 5:00am to midnight. The largest single park the city publishes an acreage for is Jesse D. Barlow Park at 17 acres, which also holds the enclosed dog park at its north end. Bernard F. Fisher Park is 16 acres and carries the 14,000 square foot skate park. North Steed Park and Pond and South Steed Park are 11.5 acres each, so the Steed complex is 23 acres across two separately named parks. The practical city guide describes a range of half an acre to twenty plus acres, and the city's own published acreages do not support either end of it.

No, they are separate cities, but the seam between them is genuinely unusual. They share a street grid with no visible break, they share the 84015 postcode, and they are both member cities of the North Davis Sewer District along with Clinton, Layton, Roy, Syracuse, West Point, part of Kaysville and Hill Air Force Base itself. A school on the edge carries a Sunset address. Because the postcode does not follow the city line, an address near the boundary needs checking at the county rather than assumed from the post, and the same goes for the school boundary, which is the district's tool to answer and nobody else's.