Moving here Clinton
The half of an address that never appears in a listing and that a household lives with every month
Moving to Clinton, and the half of an address that no listing ever shows you.
Two water bills, because the city supplies the drinking water and a private company supplies the irrigation water and publishes nothing about who is served. Two state highways carrying everything, because there is no interstate segment and no interchange anywhere inside the boundary. Its own police department, its own fire and ambulance service and its own justice court, all from one street. A school district whose boundaries split the city. And 23,386 people on five and nine tenths square miles, which makes this the most tightly packed city measured in the last two waves of this build.
Clinton is at the top corner of Davis County, four hours and a mountain range from the ground I actually work, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was read where it is issued: the city's own facility records, history page, secondary water page, special events calendar and fire department pages at clintoncity.net, including its published insurance classification and the four orienteering course documents it hosts; the Utah State Historical Society's account of the town; the state roads layer and the municipal boundary layer at the Utah Geospatial Resource Center; the United States Census geocoder; and the Division of Wildlife Resources community fisheries list. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
What does an address here actually ask of a household, once the listing is out of the way?
Four things, and none of them is on a listing. Two water bills, because the city supplies the drinking water and a private company supplies the irrigation water. Two state highways carrying the whole of the city's through traffic, because there is no interstate segment and no interchange anywhere inside the boundary. Its own police department and its own fire department, both of which sit on the same street as City Hall. And a school district whose boundaries split the city, which means the district's own tool is the only correct answer for any address. The address page carries the fifth thing, which is that the post office calls all of it Clearfield.
Start with the water because it is the one that costs money and the one people get wrong. The city's own drinking water page, read 20 August 2026, says the Clinton City Drinking Water System is operated and maintained by the Clinton City Water Department, that the majority of the drinking water is purchased from the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, and that the distribution system is owned and operated by the city. Its secondary water page says the secondary water system is a privately owned utility operated and maintained by the Davis and Weber County Canal Company, and gives that company's telephone number rather than a city one.
So one system is the city's and the other is not, and the city publishes nothing about the second beyond a contact and a warning. There is no season, no schedule, no rate, no metering statement and no list of which parts of the city are served on that page at all. What it does carry is an instruction never to connect the drinking water piping to the secondary piping, and a note that horticulturalists recommend watering deeply and infrequently. Whether a particular property has a secondary connection is therefore an address level question that changes a summer bill and that no page can settle.
The Clinton side, in numbers
2
water systems, and only one of them is the city's
2
state highways, and no interstate segment at all
3,942
people per square mile, and essentially built out
3
class on the fire department's published insurance rating
Line by line
Who supplies what, who bills for it, and which of it the city can answer for you.
Every row below names the body that publishes it and the day it was read. What the table is for is the half of an address a listing never shows and a household lives with every month: who runs the pipe, who answers the phone, who bills for it, and how much of it the municipality can actually settle for you. Figures, ladders and market conditions are not here and belong on the practical city guide.
| Who provides it | What the city publishes | What that means in practice | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drinking water | Clinton City Water Department, with the majority purchased from the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District | More than 80 miles of piping, 1,100 control valves, 834 fire hydrants and six million gallons of storage, plus one deep well 1,100 feet down producing over 1,200 gallons a minute to supplement the purchased water | The city owns and operates the distribution and buys most of the water. A city that buys in has consistent supply and limited independence in a dry year |
| Irrigation water | The Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company, a private utility | A telephone number, a postal address and a warning about cross connection. No season, no schedule, no rate and no service map | This is the single most important address level question in the city and the city will not answer it. Ask about the connection at the property |
| Sewer and waste | The city, with a recycling programme rolling out from the week of 17 August 2026 | A public works department at 1711 West 1740 North, open Monday to Friday eight to five, on 801-614-0870 | New recycling carts were being distributed across the city in the week this page was written, with an opt out published on the city home page |
| Police | Clinton City Police Department, the city's own | 2209 North 1500 West, on 801-614-0800, front desk hours Monday to Friday nine to five, with parking fines paid at the station and other violations at the court | The city also runs its own justice court, which its home page names alongside the two departments |
| Fire and ambulance | Clinton City Fire Department, the city's own, formed in 1975 | 2153 North 1500 West, on 801-614-0840, marking fifty years of service, with three ambulances on its own equipment list | Both departments are on the same street as City Hall, within about 420 feet of each other on the Census geocoder |
| Dispatch out of hours | Davis County Dispatch | 801-451-4151, in the footer of every page of the city website | The non emergency and after hours line is the county's rather than the city's, which is normal and worth knowing before you need it |
| Schools | Davis School District | The city publishes no boundary information of its own | Boundaries split this city several ways and change. The district's own tool is the only correct answer and no page, including this one, is a substitute for it |
| Through roads | The Utah Department of Transportation | The city names both as improvement projects on its own home page news | 1800 North is SR-37 and 2000 West is SR-108. There is no interstate segment and no interchange inside the city at all |
Checked in August 2026 at clintoncity.net across the drinking water, secondary water, police, fire and home pages, with the route numbers and segment counts queried the same month at the Utah Geospatial Resource Center roads layer and the three civic addresses geocoded at the United States Census geocoder. One caution on the water page: its published statistics include a total yearly use figure for 2013, which is thirteen years old, so the operational detail is current and the volumes on that page are not. Home values and market figures live on the practical city guide instead.
The details
Getting there
City Hall sits on 1500 West a few hundred feet south of the Civic Center park and a few hundred feet north of the police and fire stations, with Parkside Elementary across the street. Geocoded on 20 August 2026, City Hall is at latitude 41.146670 north, the police station at 41.146087 and the fire station at 41.145523, which puts all three inside about 420 feet of each other on one alignment. The public works department is elsewhere, at 1711 West 1740 North, and keeps different hours from the city offices.
Before you go
- Ask about the secondary irrigation connection before anything else. The city does not run that system and will refer you to a private company in another town.
- If the parcel is near the north line, confirm the city and the county at the recorder. The postcode and the street grid will not tell you, because neither of them is this city's.
- Assignment belongs to the district and to nobody else. Its own boundary lookup answers any address here, the boundaries move, and no page on this site is a stand in for it.
- The city publishes at least three different sets of office hours across its own site and departments. Ring 801-614-0700 before driving over for anything time sensitive.
The pipes
One system the city runs and one it hands to a private company in another town.
The drinking water side is documented better than most cities this size manage. The city's own page records more than 80 miles of piping, 1,100 control valves, 834 fire hydrants and storage tanks totalling six million gallons, and describes a deep well 1,100 feet down producing over 1,200 gallons a minute to supplement the purchased supply. The majority of the water is bought from the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District and the distribution system is the city's own. The department answers on the main city number in office hours and on the county dispatch line after five and at weekends.
One caveat about that page, because it matters for anybody quoting it. Its statistics section gives an average of 1.5 million gallons a day and a total yearly use figure for 2013. That is thirteen years old. The infrastructure description is current in the sense that pipes and hydrants do not move much, but nobody should treat the volumes on that page as this year's. The city files annual water use returns with the state and those are the current numbers.
The secondary side is a different arrangement entirely and the city is upfront about it. The secondary water system is a privately owned utility operated and maintained by the Davis and Weber County Canal Company, which the city writes in the singular in its sentence and in the plural in its contact block, on the same page, and the company's own name is the plural one. The company is in the standing footer of every page on the city website, alongside animal control and the utility locating service, and its own service areas put Clinton together with West Point rather than giving this city one of its own. The paths page carries where that canal came from, which is 1884.
What the city's secondary page does not publish is the entire practical content a resident would want: when the water is turned on, when it goes off, what it costs, whether a given address is served, and whether the connection is metered. What it does publish is a cross connection warning and a note about deep infrequent watering. That absence is itself the fact worth carrying, because it means the answer for any specific property lives with the property and with the company, and not with the municipality.
The fire department, which publishes more about itself than most cities do
This is a genuinely unusual public record and it belongs in a mover page rather than anywhere else. The department was formed in 1975 with a dozen volunteers under Chief Lloyd Brown, and it started with two engines handed down from the state forestry service, a 1944 Seagraves and a 1943 Chevrolet. On its own front page in August 2026 it was marking fifty years of service.
It also publishes its own insurance services classification and the whole ladder of them going back nearly fifty years: a rating of 7 in 1978, 5 in 1997, 5 again in 2007, 4 in 2014 and 3 in 2018. The city explains the scale itself, that class 1 is the highest and class 10 does not meet the standard, and notes that of the 46,000 departments evaluated its own is one of 3,456 nationally to hold a class 3. That is an insurance industry classification of a fire service, published by the service, and it is not a statement about any individual property or about anybody's safety.
The department's 2025 annual report adds the operational picture. Three new full time positions were approved in that year's budget and three firefighters were hired in July, taking each shift to seven personnel. A public safety construction project was completed in the same year. A replacement ambulance was delivered on 13 March 2025 after supply chain delays. The department's ambulance billing provider ceased operations in December 2024 and the city had to select a new one. And the deputy chief retired after twenty five years, thirteen of them in that post.
One water system the city owns, one it does not, and a fire department that publishes its own insurance rating going back to 1978. Very little of this is on a listing.
The roads
Two state highways carry everything, and there is no interstate segment inside the city at all.
The practical city guide calls 1800 North the principal east to west road four separate times and never once says it is a state highway. It is. Queried at the state roads layer on 20 August 2026, every 1800 North segment inside the city returns the highway name SR-37, and 28 of that route's 83 statewide segments are in Clinton, more than in any other city on it. The same route begins at Main Street in Sunset and runs west through here to West Point, Hooper and West Haven. The city's own founding address, the Hill family farm at 85 West 1800 North, is on the same alignment.
The other one the guide gets right. 2000 West is SR-108, ten Clinton segments out of 101 statewide, and the same route is Antelope Drive by the time it reaches Syracuse, which is the approach to the causeway. That is this city's entire honest connection to the island: the retail street here and the causeway approach there are one state highway, and everything else about the island belongs to the county page.
What the city does not have is a freeway. No interstate segment is attributed to Clinton in the roads layer and neither is any segment of the state route that carries the nearest interchange, which has 53 segments statewide and none of them here. So every trip out of the city starts on arterials, and the two arterials are the two state routes. The published traffic attributes quantify what that does: 2000 West peaks at 21,000 vehicles a day at its busiest sampled segment, 1800 North at 18,000, and a third road, 300 North, at 16,000, against 8,900 on 1000 West, 7,200 on 2300 North and 2,000 to 2,400 on 3000 West. Everything is posted at 40 miles an hour except one 3000 West segment at 25.
Two cautions on those counts. They all carry the year 2017 in the state layer, which makes them nine years old, so they are a shape rather than a current measurement and UDOT is the place for anything current. And the guide is right that locals slide onto the parallel grids: the counts support it, because 3000 West and 1000 West carry a fraction of what 2000 West does. The new highway west of the city is a separate matter and it is described at the end of this page, at the stage it is actually at.
The extension of the new highway toward this city's main street is funded and under construction, and it is not open, and no page should describe its terminus as existing. The West Davis Corridor opened west of here in January 2024 and is reached from Clinton through the interchange in neighbouring West Point rather than from anywhere inside this city. The extension that would carry it north to 1800 North, which is SR-37, is an announced and funded programme with utility relocation begun and major construction anticipated from the summer of this year, and a published completion expectation around the end of the decade. The transport department is the source for the current schedule, and the practical city guide carries the detail. What matters here is the distinction: the built segment is real and the northern terminus is a plan, work zones and detours on the corridors west of the city are a live consequence for several years, and the growth that follows a new highway belongs to the neighbours with land rather than to a city that is already finished building.
Living with it
A finished, flat, tightly packed city that runs its own services and borrows its evenings.
The honest summary of a Clinton address is that it is compact and it is done. About five and nine tenths square miles of flat old lakebed with 23,386 people on it at the last count, which is roughly 3,900 to the square mile and denser than any other city measured in the last two waves of this build. There is no bench, no canyon, no trailhead, no lake frontage, no freeway and no commercial centre. What remains to build is infill and the last phases of subdivisions, mostly at the northwest end. That is not a criticism; a finished city is a known quantity, which is exactly what some households are looking for.
What it buys is services and quiet. The city runs its own police department, its own fire and ambulance service and its own justice court, all from one street, and it publishes more about the fire side than most cities of any size. The parks system is denser than its reputation, with eleven named outdoor sites and seven measured walking loops in under six square miles. And the flat regular grid, whoever it belongs to, makes the whole place unusually easy to move around on foot or on a bicycle.
What it costs is that the bigger evening happens somewhere else. There is no downtown to walk to, the retail runs along the two state routes, and the practical city guide is right that the city borrows its restaurants, its cinema and its shopping from Layton, Clearfield, Roy and Ogden. The one week of the year when that is not true is the six day week in June, which is genuinely the city's own.
Then there is sound, which is the question everybody asks and nobody answers usefully. Here it comes from three directions and each one has a different pattern. Westward and across the middle sit the two highways, busiest at the two ends of a working day, one of them carrying 21,000 vehicles at its heaviest sampled point. Eastward, aircraft from the installation are audible over the whole municipality, and whether that registers as background or as an event varies with the day and the operation rather than with the postcode. Southeastward along the old 1916 boundary run the freight line and the commuter service. No description settles any of that for a particular street, and half a day standing on it does: try seven in the morning, four in the afternoon and nine at night.
Three of the county's seven shared subjects reach a Clinton address and this companion opens each of them through one page rather than handing over in general. The only one this city squarely owns is its own water, which is a managed basin at the low corner of town, and the county carries it alongside every other walk to water on the lakeside parks page while this companion goes deeper on the same basin on the pond page. The island is reached through a route number and nothing else, because 2000 West here and Antelope Drive in Syracuse are one state highway, and everything past that is the island page. The installation to the east is a drive of ten to fifteen minutes from most of the city, which has no gate of its own, and the gates, the hours, the aircraft, the museum and the published noise contours are all the county page and none of them is here. The canyons, the bay and the paved parkway corridor are other cities' ground, and the Davis County hub indexes all seven.
The figures
The Clinton city guide
Prices, the ladder, the cost of living and the market conditions, none of which is anywhere on this page.
Open the guideOne town against another
The comparison index
Weighing two towns is its own exercise with its own tables, and it belongs there rather than inside one town's page.
Open the indexThe paperwork
Whose Address Is This
Why every form you fill in for the next decade will print a city you do not live in.
Read the guideHow it got here
The Summit That Became Clinton
A ward in 1896, a railroad in 1916, and a ninetieth birthday with no party attached.
Read the guideThe free amenity
The Rail Trail and the Canal
Eleven named sites and 16,930 feet of path the city measured itself.
Read the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
Fifteen towns between a lake and a mountain front, with the shared subjects written once.
The region hubKeep reading
The rest of Clinton on The Local.
The founding
The Summit That Became Clinton
Four working names, a ward in 1896, a railroad split in 1916, ninety years in August.
Read the guideThe address
Whose Address Is This
All 1,264 road segments carry another city's grid, another city's ZIP, another post.
Read the guideThe big week
Six Days in June
Six days, five venues, and a free swim night the city has to hold in another county.
Read the guideThe water
The Clinton Pond
A storm detention basin fed by a mile of pipe, aerated on purpose, sampled by the county.
Read the guideThe compass
The Orienteering Course
Nine markers set in concrete, six courses, four documents, and a compass bearing to start.
Read the guideThe paths
The Rail Trail and the Canal
Two named trails, seven measured loops, and an 1884 canal that still bills separately.
Read the guideThe companion
Clinton, in full
Ninety years old, on a neighbour's street grid, with its founding farm in the next town.
Read the pageQuick answers
A Clinton address, answered.
Two different organisations, for two different things. The city's own drinking water page states that the Clinton City Drinking Water System is operated and maintained by the Clinton City Water Department, that the majority of the drinking water is purchased from the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, and that the distribution system is owned and operated by the city. Its secondary water page states that the secondary water system is a privately owned utility operated and maintained by the Davis and Weber County Canal Company, and gives that company's phone number rather than a city one. Both read 20 August 2026.
Some of it does, and the city cannot tell you whether a given property is on it. The city's secondary water page publishes the operator, a phone number and a postal address, plus a warning never to connect the drinking water piping to the secondary piping and a note recommending deep infrequent watering. It publishes no season, no schedule, no rate, no metering statement and no map of who is served. That makes the connection an address level question that materially changes a summer bill, and the place to settle it is the property and the canal company rather than the city.
Both, plus its own justice court, and the city names all three on its home page. The Clinton City Police Department publishes 2209 North 1500 West and 801-614-0800, with a front desk open Monday to Friday nine to five. The Clinton City Fire Department publishes 2153 North 1500 West and 801-614-0840, was formed in 1975 with a dozen volunteers, and marks fifty years of service on its own page. City Hall is at 2267 North 1500 West between them. Geocoded on 20 August 2026, all three sit within about 420 feet of each other on one street.
The department publishes a class 3 insurance services classification and the whole history of them. On its own page it records ratings of 7 in 1978, 5 in 1997, 5 again in 2007, 4 in 2014 and 3 in 2018, explains that the scale runs from class 1 as the highest to class 10 as not meeting the standard, and notes that of 46,000 departments evaluated nationally its own is one of 3,456 to hold a class 3. That is an insurance industry classification of a fire service published by the service itself, and it is not a statement about any individual property.
Yes, it is SR-37, and this city carries more of it than anywhere else. Queried at the Utah Geospatial Resource Center roads layer on 20 August 2026, every 1800 North segment inside Clinton returns the highway name SR-37, and 28 of that route's 83 statewide segments are here, ahead of West Haven, Hooper, West Point and Sunset. The same route begins at Main Street in Sunset and runs west through Clinton toward Hooper and West Haven. The practical city guide on this site calls 1800 North the principal east to west road four times and never says it is a highway.
Not inside the city. No interstate segment is attributed to Clinton in the state roads layer, and neither is any segment of the state route that carries the nearest interchange, which has 53 segments across four other cities and none here. Every trip out starts on one of the two state routes, 1800 North or 2000 West, and reaches the interstate through Clearfield or Sunset, or the newer highway through the interchange in neighbouring West Point. The extension of that highway north toward 1800 North is funded and under construction and is not open, so nothing about its terminus should be treated as existing.
The state layer publishes counts, and they are nine years old. On the 2017 figures carried in the Utah Geospatial Resource Center roads layer, checked in August 2026, 2000 West peaks at 21,000 vehicles a day at its busiest sampled segment, 1800 North at 18,000, and 300 North at 16,000, against 8,900 on 1000 West, 7,200 on 2300 North and 2,000 to 2,400 on 3000 West. Everything is posted at 40 miles an hour except one 3000 West segment at 25. Those are a shape rather than a current measurement and the transport department is the place for anything live.
Davis School District, and the boundaries split the city several ways. The city publishes no boundary information of its own, assignments change, and the district's own boundary tool is the only correct answer for any specific address. No page on this site rates any school or characterises who attends one, and third party ratings are the reader's to consult if they want them. Note also that crossing the city's north line changes the district as well as the county, because Roy and Hooper are in the Weber district rather than the Davis one.
Barely, because it has run out of room. The 2020 decennial count was 23,386 people on 5.933 square miles of land, which is about 3,900 to the square mile and the densest of any city measured in the last two waves of this build. The most recent state estimate carried on the municipal boundary layer is 23,538, and the city's own home page describes a community of over 23,500 residents, so all three figures sit within a few hundred of each other. What is left to build is infill and final phase subdivision work rather than new ground.
Two water bills, two state highways and three things only the address can answer.
Clinton is an easy city to describe badly, because everything that makes it what it is sits underneath the listing rather than on it. A drinking water system the city runs and an irrigation system it does not. Two state highways doing the work of a freeway that is not here. Its own police, its own fire service and its own court on one short street. A district that splits the city and a north line where four different boundaries change at once. And an address system, a postcode and a post office that all belong to somewhere else. Tell me which streets you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who can run those checks with you, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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