Whose address is this, and why does everything you own think you live in Clearfield?

Because the entire street numbering system is Clearfield's, not just the postcode. Queried at the Utah Geospatial Resource Center roads layer on 20 August 2026, all 1,264 road segments in Clinton come back as one group: address system Clearfield, postcode 84015, postal community Clearfield. An address system is the origin a house number is measured from, so a Clinton house number is measured from a point in a different municipality. Insurance quotes, delivery apps, listing feeds and directory entries all resolve the postcode and print the postal community, and none of them is wrong.

No. They are separate municipalities with separate mayors, separate councils, separate general plans and separate police and fire arrangements, and Clinton runs both of its own. What they share is an address system and a postcode, which is a postal and geographic convention rather than a jurisdictional one. The two cities are not even directly adjacent along most of their frontage: the state boundary layer puts Clearfield at Clinton's southeast corner, with Sunset to the east and West Point to the south and west. A parcel near any of those edges should be confirmed at the county recorder rather than assumed from the post.

Five, and Clearfield is not the largest of them. Queried on 20 August 2026, the state roads layer files 1,264 of 1,264 Clinton segments, 1,834 of 1,842 Syracuse segments, 1,516 of 1,540 Clearfield segments, all 733 West Point segments and 329 of 333 Sunset segments under the address system Clearfield. Summing those gives 5,676 road segments; adding the five cities' 2020 decennial counts gives 103,874 people numbered from one origin. Syracuse contributes more segments than Clearfield does. Both totals are arithmetic on the layer's output rather than figures the state publishes.

Not in the state's roads layer. Pulling the full street name list for every segment inside the city on 20 August 2026 returns numbers and nothing else: 1300 North, 1800 North and 2300 North east to west, 1000 West through 3000 West north to south, and outliers like 2415 North at the pond and 600 North at the City Gardens, plus the token the layer uses for private drives. That is a direct consequence of an imported grid. The honest limit on the claim is that the query returns segments where Clinton is on the left or right side, so a cul de sac with a marketing name could in principle be attributed elsewhere.

Five, in two counties. Point in polygon probes against the state municipal boundary layer on 20 August 2026 return Sunset to the east, Clearfield to the southeast, West Point to the south and west, and Roy and Hooper across the north line, both in Weber County. No probe anywhere along the north edge returned unincorporated ground, so the county line there is a shared city line rather than a gap. The practical city guide says Clinton touches four cities and a county line in three places, while its own nearby list names Roy and Hooper, so the page disagrees with itself.

The address system, the postcode, the county and the school district, all at once and within about fifty five metres. Roy and Hooper are both numbered from the Ogden address system rather than the Clearfield one, the postcode goes from 84015 to 84067 at Roy, the county goes from Davis to Weber and the school district goes from Davis to Weber as well. Nothing changes at all at the Sunset or Clearfield edges, because the grid and the postcode run straight across both. No published source describes a mutual aid or ambulance arrangement across that line, so none should be assumed.

Because the address is correct and the city it names is not where the building is. Clinton's secondary water page publishes the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company at 138 West 1300 North, Clearfield, Utah 84015. Run that through the United States Census geocoder and it matches at longitude 112.029424 west, latitude 41.132643 north, and returns the incorporated place as Sunset city, Davis County, about a hundred metres from Sunset City Hall. Sunset uses Clearfield's grid and postcode exactly as Clinton does, so a correct postal address names a city the building is not in. Checked 20 August 2026.

No. Every road segment in the city carries 84015, which is Clearfield's, and there is no second postcode anywhere inside the boundary. That makes Clinton the cleanest case on the whole grid: Sunset carries two postcodes because some of its ground is inside an installation, West Point carries three including a surviving Hooper one, Syracuse carries four and Clearfield itself carries four. Clinton has exactly one and it belongs to somebody else. Verified at the Utah Geospatial Resource Center roads layer on 20 August 2026.

The county parcel record, and nothing else. The postcode does not follow the city line, the street grid does not change at the Sunset or Clearfield boundary, and there is no visible break in the street pattern at either. That means a listing feed, a delivery driver, a directory entry and a search engine can all place a property in the wrong municipality without anybody having made an error. Which city a parcel sits in decides who levies it, whose general plan governs the lot next door, whose council hears an application on it and which set of city rules applies. Settle it at Davis County before a transaction.