The address Clinton
Why a Clinton home's mail says Clearfield, UT 84015
Whose address is this, and why does your Clinton mail say Clearfield?
Your Clinton, Utah home has a mailing address that reads Clearfield, UT 84015, and the house is not in Clearfield. Clinton is its own city, with its own mayor, its own council, and its own police and fire departments. What it does not have is a street grid of its own. Clinton numbers its streets from Clearfield's grid and shares Clearfield's ZIP code, so an insurer, a delivery app and a listing feed all print Clearfield for an address that sits squarely in Clinton. Nobody made a mistake, and none of it can be fixed. The one place it truly matters is a property near a city line, where the mail will not tell you which town governs the lot, and that is a thing to confirm before you buy.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
A home in Clinton, Utah has a mailing address that reads Clearfield, UT 84015, even though the house is not in Clearfield. Clinton is its own city, with its own mayor, its own council, and its own police and fire departments. What it does not have is a street grid of its own. Clinton numbers its streets from Clearfield's grid and shares Clearfield's ZIP code, so an insurer, a delivery app, a listing feed and a school form all print Clearfield for an address that sits squarely in Clinton. Nobody made a mistake, and none of it can be fixed at a keyboard. For day to day life it is a harmless quirk. The one place it matters is a property near a city line, where the mail and the map will not tell you which town actually governs the lot, and you confirm that at the county before you make an offer.
How a Clinton address works
Why your Clinton mail says Clearfield
Start with the piece that surprises people, because it is bigger than a shared ZIP. When a house number is assigned, it is measured from an origin point, a zero that a city sets somewhere near its center, and the streets count outward from there. Clinton never set its own origin. Its house numbers are counted from Clearfield's, which is why a Clinton address and a Clearfield address are numbered on the same system, and why the two cities feel seamless when you drive between them. Sunset and West Point borrow the same grid. The whole northwest corner of the county runs on one set of numbers, and the numbers are Clearfield's.
That is also why almost every street in Clinton is a number rather than a name. 1300 North, 1800 North and 2300 North are the main streets running east to west; 1000 West through 3000 West run north to south. A newcomer expecting street names finds it disorienting for a week and then finds it is the easiest kind of city to get around, because any address can be placed within a block by arithmetic alone. There is no old named Main Street to steer by, and the reason is not that Clinton lost its downtown. It is that the numbering was imported whole from the next city over, and imported grids do not come with names.
The ZIP is the part most people already notice. Clinton's ZIP is 84015, which belongs to Clearfield's post office, and there is no second ZIP anywhere inside the city. So a piece of mail, an online form, or a listing feed reads the ZIP, looks up its post office, and prints Clearfield. That is the correct postal city for 84015. It is simply not the municipal city the house sits in. Both things are true at once, and the gap between them is the whole story of a Clinton address.
The address, in plain terms
The city lines
What changes at each edge of Clinton
Clinton touches five cities in two counties, and the interesting thing is how differently the borders behave. Three of them are invisible on paper and one of them changes almost everything, which is the opposite of what most buyers assume.
To the east is Sunset and to the southeast is Clearfield, and crossing into either changes nothing you can see on an envelope: the same numbered grid, the same 84015 ZIP, the same post office. West Point wraps around the south and the west on that same grid. The north edge is the one that matters. It is the line between Davis County and Weber County, and it runs city to city with no unincorporated gap, so on one ordinary residential street you step from Clinton straight into Roy or into Hooper. Cross it and the county, the ZIP, the schools and the street numbering all change at once.
| City edge | Neighboring city | What changes when you cross |
|---|---|---|
| East | Sunset (Davis County) | Nothing on paper: same grid, same 84015 ZIP, same post office |
| Southeast | Clearfield (Davis County) | Nothing on paper: this is the city the grid is named for |
| South and west | West Point (Davis County) | A different city government, but the same grid and 84015 mail on most streets |
| North | Roy (Weber County) | The county, the ZIP to 84067, the schools to the Weber district, and the numbering to Ogden's grid |
| North, at the west end | Hooper (Weber County) | A Weber County city with its own ZIP and Ogden's numbering |
So the hard border and the county border are the same line, which is a coincidence of history rather than a rule. It is worth knowing that a neighbor two streets north is in a different county, a different school district and a different ZIP, while a neighbor two streets east shares everything but the city name.
A worked example
A Clearfield address for a building in Sunset
If you want a single clean illustration that the shared address is real and not a rounding error, it is published on Clinton's own website. The city's secondary water page tells residents that irrigation water is run by a private company, the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company, and gives its address as 138 West 1300 North, Clearfield, UT 84015.
That address is correct. The building it points to is in Sunset, about a block from Sunset City Hall. Sunset shares Clearfield's grid and Clearfield's ZIP exactly the way Clinton does, so the canal company's proper mailing address names a city its office is not in. The city of Clinton, on its own page, gives a Clearfield address for a Sunset building, and every word of it is accurate. That is what one shared address system does to a cluster of small cities: the mail is always right, and the city name is often somebody else's.
A Clinton web page gives a Clearfield address for a building in Sunset, and every word of it is correct. That is the whole quirk in one line.
What it means for you
Living with an address that names another city
For a household this is a nuisance rather than a problem, and it is a permanent one. Insurance quotes, delivery apps, listing feeds, warranty cards and school forms will all resolve the ZIP and print Clearfield. If a form has a separate city field and ZIP field, put Clinton in the city field and 84015 in the ZIP, and know that some systems will quietly overwrite the city from the ZIP anyway. It helps to expect that in advance rather than meet it on a policy document.
Two things here are worth real money or real time. First, anything priced or rated by city, which includes some insurance and some service areas, should be set from the actual municipality rather than guessed from the mail. Second, and this is the one that matters most to a buyer, a home near the Sunset, Clearfield or north line cannot be assigned to a city by its ZIP, by eye, or by a listing feed, because the grid and the ZIP run straight across those lines with nothing visible to mark them. The county parcel record is the document that settles which city taxes a property, whose plan governs the lot next door, and whose council would hear an application on it. Near a boundary, that is a check to run before you write an offer, not after.
The pleasant side is navigation. Because every street is a number counted from a fixed origin, Clinton is one of the easiest cities in Utah to find your way around once the pattern clicks, and the parks and trails are strung along the same numbered lines. If you are weighing the day to day of living here, the two utility bills and the two state routes are laid out on the moving to Clinton page, and the trail network that follows the grid is on the rail trail and the canal.
Near a city line, confirm the municipality before you buy. The ZIP, the numbered grid and a satellite photo will all agree with each other, and none of them settles which city a property is in. Which city it is decides the property tax, the zoning and the council that governs it, so on any lot near the Sunset, Clearfield or Roy edge, have the actual municipality confirmed from the Davis County parcel record during your due diligence.
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Quick answers
The Clinton address grid, answered
Because Clinton uses Clearfield's street numbering and Clearfield's ZIP code, not just the same mail. Clinton is its own city, but it never set up an address grid of its own, so every house number here is measured from a starting point in Clearfield and every ZIP reads 84015. Insurance quotes, delivery apps, listing feeds and directory entries all resolve that ZIP and print Clearfield. None of them is wrong, and none of it can be changed.
No. Clinton and Clearfield are separate cities, each with its own mayor, council and general plan, and Clinton runs its own police and fire departments. What they share is a street grid and a ZIP code, which is a mailing and mapping convention rather than a matter of who governs the ground. The two cities do not even touch along most of their edges: Clearfield sits at Clinton's southeast corner, with Sunset to the east and West Point to the south and west.
Several of the cities in the northwest corner of Davis County. Clinton, Sunset and West Point all number their streets from Clearfield's grid and carry the 84015 ZIP, and parts of Syracuse and Clearfield itself do too. Clinton is the cleanest case of all of them: every street in the city is on Clearfield's grid and carries 84015, with no second grid and no second ZIP anywhere inside the line.
Almost none. Nearly every street in Clinton is a number rather than a name, because the whole grid was imported from Clearfield: 1300 North, 1800 North and 2300 North run east to west, and 1000 West through 3000 West run north to south. A newcomer used to street names finds it strange at first and then finds it easy, because any address in the city can be placed within a block by the numbers alone.
Five, in two counties. Sunset is to the east, Clearfield to the southeast, and West Point to the south and west, all in Davis County. Along the north edge Clinton runs straight up against Roy and Hooper, which are both in Weber County. There is no unincorporated gap on the north side: the county line there is also a city line you can stand on.
Almost everything on paper, all at once. The north edge of Clinton is the Davis and Weber county line, so crossing it into Roy changes the county from Davis to Weber, the ZIP from 84015 to 84067, the school district from the Davis district to the Weber one, and the street numbering from Clearfield's grid to Ogden's. Nothing at all changes at the Sunset or Clearfield edges, because the grid and the ZIP run straight across both.
Yes, and there is a plain example on Clinton's own website. The city's secondary water page lists the canal company that supplies irrigation water at 138 West 1300 North, Clearfield, UT 84015. That address is correct, but the building actually sits in Sunset, about a block from Sunset City Hall. Sunset uses Clearfield's grid and ZIP exactly the way Clinton does, so a correct address can name a city the building is not in.
Clinton uses 84015, which is Clearfield's ZIP code. Every street in the city carries it, and there is no second ZIP anywhere inside the boundary, so Clinton is the tidiest case on the whole grid. The one place the ZIP changes is the north line, where crossing into Roy switches it to 84067 and crossing into Hooper switches it again.
Check the county parcel record, and trust nothing else near a boundary. The ZIP does not follow the city line, the numbered grid does not change at the Sunset or Clearfield edge, and there is no visible break in the streets at either. A listing feed, a delivery driver and a search engine can all place a home in the wrong city without anyone making a mistake. Which city a parcel is in decides who taxes it, whose rules govern the lot next door and whose council hears an application on it, so settle it at the Davis County recorder before you write an offer.
The one thing about a Clinton address worth planning around
A Clinton address that reads Clearfield is the most consequential quiet fact about living here, and the least visible. The numbers on your door are measured from another city, the post office files the whole town under Clearfield, and every form you sign for the next decade will print a city the house is not in. None of it can be changed, and almost none of it costs you anything. What it asks for is small and specific: confirm the city rather than assume it, lean on the Davis County parcel record on any lot near a boundary, and expect a permanent low hum of paperwork friction. Tell me the streets you are weighing, and I will connect you with 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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