City South Weber, Davis County
A Davis County city with Weber in its name, an Ogden postcode and house numbers measured from another county
South Weber, the half of a town a legislature kept.
7,867 people at the 2020 decennial census on 4.69 square miles at the mouth of Weber Canyon, in Davis County despite the name and on the Ogden street grid despite the county. In 1855 the Territorial Legislature cut one settlement in two, named the north half Uintah and the south half South Weber, and made the river between them the county line. The postcode, the address grid, the sewer district and the trail on the bank all still point north across it. Seven pages on the city itself, and a clean handover to the two county subjects an address here really uses.
I work Southern Utah, which is four hundred miles from the mouth of Weber Canyon, so these pages are researched rather than lived. The facts came off the documents that issue them: the city's history, parks, trails, water and gravel pit pages at southwebercity.gov, its adopted trails plan, its consolidated fee schedule, its annual report, its drinking water report, its tax notice and its signed fireworks statement, plus the Census Bureau geocoder, the state road and place name layers, the federal school directory and the trail charity rebuilding the river bank. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
Start here
One town at one canyon mouth, cut in half by a legislature in 1855.
Almost every question a newcomer asks about this place has the same answer, and the city publishes it in four sentences on its own history page. Settlement began in 1851. The only town at the mouth of Weber Canyon was East Weber, also called Easton, and it took in the ground on both the north and the south sides of the river. In 1855 the Territorial Legislature divided Easton in two, gave the north side the name Uintah and the south side the name South Weber, and in the same act designated the Weber River as the dividing line between Weber and Davis Counties. That passage, checked in August 2026, answers the county question and the name question at once.
Then it keeps answering. The postcode here is 84405, which is an Ogden postcode shared with South Ogden and Washington Terrace in Weber County, and this city has none of its own. The house numbers run in the 6000 to 8200 South range off East cross streets, which is the Ogden street grid carried south across the county line rather than a grid measured from anywhere in Davis County. The sewage is treated by the Central Weber Sewer Improvement District. The trail on the river bank is the south end of a Weber County trail system and part of the work has been credited to a Weber County recreation tax. Four of the five municipalities this city touches are in Weber County and only one, Layton, is in Davis.
And the third answer is the one that decides what a household actually buys here. The city publishes its own ceiling: South Weber is expected to stay under 14,000 residents, because it is closed in by the mouth of Weber Canyon on the east, the Weber River on the north, a bluff on the south and a narrow gap into Riverdale on the west. Very few cities publish the number they expect to stop at. The mover page works through what that geography leaves in place: five separate bodies between a household and its water, sewer and safety services, a monthly utility statement the city itself totals, and a school district that runs the other way to everything else.
South Weber at a glance
7,867
counted at the 2020 decennial census
4.69 sq mi
of Census land area at the canyon mouth
1855
the act that made the river a county line
14,000
the ceiling the city publishes for itself
The arithmetic
A thousand people in 1971, eight thousand now, and a finish line the city has already named.
Most Davis County cities lost residents in the last estimate year. This one gained, which puts it in the minority, and it is the only city in the county that publishes the number it expects to stop at. Set the city's own figures beside the official ones and the whole shape of the place is one column deep.
| Year | People | Where the number comes from | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 | A handful | The city's own history page | The Watts and Bybee families arrive. The town at the canyon mouth is East Weber, or Easton, and it takes in both banks of the river |
| 1855 | Not counted | The city's own history page | The Territorial Legislature divides Easton, names the halves Uintah and South Weber, and makes the river the county line |
| 1938 | Not published | The city's own history page | Incorporation as the Town of South Weber, with Joseph Staples as President of the Town Board. The gravel pits are already here and have been since the 1930s |
| 16 March 1971 | 1,073 | The city's own history page | Third class city status, with LeRoy Poll as the first Mayor. The exact date and the exact count are both the city's own and neither is on the practical city guide |
| 2020 | 7,867 | The 2020 decennial count; the state boundary layer stores the same figure on the city polygon | Seven times the 1971 figure in forty nine years, on 4.69 square miles of Census land area |
| Latest estimate | 8,124 | Utah Geospatial Resource Center municipal boundary layer, read 16 August 2026 | Still rising, against ten of fifteen Davis County cities that fell in the same estimate year |
| The city's own report | 8,155 | South Weber City, 2025 By The Numbers, page 1 | Close to the state figure and sourced partly through an aggregator, so it is quoted here as the city's number rather than as a count |
| The ceiling | Under 14,000 | The city's own history page | The city's published expectation, with the four constraints given in the same sentence: the canyon, the river, the bluff and the gap into Riverdale |
Checked in August 2026 at southwebercity.gov and on the state municipal boundary layer. The firm number is 7,867; 8,124 is an estimate. The 8,155 in the city's annual report is attributed to that report because the panel it sits in names an aggregator alongside the Census Bureau as its source. Prices and current listings live on the practical city guide.
Two things follow from the ceiling and neither is on any relocation summary. The first is that the constraints are real and independently checkable. Census probes across the north edge on 16 August 2026 put unincorporated Weber County above the city line, Uintah town beyond that, and unincorporated Davis County east of about longitude minus 111.900, which is the national forest side. The city's own trails plan puts the old lake shoreline at about 5,200 feet mostly outside the boundary. A city hemmed by a river, a canyon, a bluff and a gap is not going to annex its way out of any of them.
The second is the arithmetic of what is left. At 7,867 people on 4.69 square miles this is about 1,677 people to the square mile, which sits close to West Bountiful and well under Fruit Heights on the same county's bench. A rise from about eight thousand to a ceiling of fourteen thousand is roughly seventy five per cent more people inside the same four and a half square miles, and the way that arrives is on parcels like the 5.9 acres at approximately 1675 East 7650 South, which went before the Planning Commission on 19 August 2026 on an application to move from agricultural to residential moderate density zoning. That is the ceiling being approached in public, one notice at a time.
One honest caution about the land area, because it is easy to get wrong on this city and the mistake is large. Use the Census land area of 4.69 square miles. The state municipal boundary feature carries a shape area in Web Mercator units that converts to about 8.3 square miles, which is not a measurement of anything on the ground, and a density calculated from it comes out roughly forty per cent too low. The city's own annual report gives 4.64 square miles. All three figures are in circulation and only one of them is a survey.
The long view
A county line drawn down the middle of a town, and a river that has not stayed where they drew it.
Start with what the 1855 act actually did, because it is stranger than the summary version. It did not draw a line between two towns. It took one settlement at one canyon mouth, cut it along the water, and put the two halves in different counties. The north half became Uintah, in Weber County. The south half kept the river in its name and went into Davis County. A hundred and seventy one years later the two halves still face each other across the same water, one of them named for the river and the other named for a tribe, and the ground they were both built at belongs to neither of them.
That last part is a finding rather than a phrase. Census geocoder probes run on 16 August 2026 at a fifth of a mile spacing put South Weber's northern limit at the east end at about latitude 41.136 to 41.137, Uintah town's southern limit at about 41.138 to 41.140, and unincorporated Weber County in the strip between them, which is where the canyon mouth and the river corridor through it sit. So this city sits at the mouth of Weber Canyon, which is exactly how the city itself describes it, and the mouth is not in it. The city's own adopted trails plan agrees from the other direction: the Weber Canyon trailhead it proposes is still labelled proposed and it is drawn outside the city limits.
The line itself is not a survey line either. It is a river channel, and rivers move. The state municipal boundary layer draws a small interior hole in the city polygon on the north edge, about six tenths of an acre, and a Census probe at the middle of that hole comes back as Weber County with no incorporated place at all. Two authorities, a few hundred feet apart, on a boundary that has had a hundred and seventy one years to wander. Which one is legally correct is a question for the two county recorders and this page does not answer it; that the disagreement exists is checkable in an afternoon.
The other thing the split produced is a street. Old Fort Road runs across the west end of the city past the site of Kington Fort, a 645 foot square enclosure built in 1853 and standing empty by 1858, and past a memorial at 475 East that the Historical Marker Database records as Sons of Utah Pioneers marker 128, put up in August 2006 by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers South Weber Chapter, the Sons of Utah Pioneers Ogden Pioneer Chapter and a local contractor. The three days in June 1862 that the marker commemorates are a historian's subject and this companion routes to the historians for them. What it carries is the ground: one street with six city sites on it, including the pioneer cemetery an irrigation canal closed.
One settlement, one canyon mouth, and an 1855 statute that gave the two halves different names, different counties and a moving river between them.
The county
Two county subjects reach this corner and the base reaches it through a fence rather than a gate.
Fifteen Davis County cities share seven subjects, and those seven are written once at county level so that no city has to write a worse version of them. South Weber is at the far northeast corner, which means most of that county material is somebody else's drive. Two of the seven genuinely arrive here, and here they are.
Where the water is
The lakeside parks
The county's walkable water edges, the community fishing rules, and where the Weber River sits among them.
Read the guideOver the fence
Hill Air Force Base
The installation, the gates and which city each serves, the flight line, the employment footprint and the published contours.
Read the guideFive of the seven county subjects belong to the other end of Davis County, and a drive time is the only honest connection this city has to them. Antelope Island is reached from the Syracuse causeway, most of the county away to the southwest. The Legacy Parkway Trail runs along the valley floor in south Davis and shares nothing with the Weber River trail here except the word parkway, which is a confusion worth naming once and never repeating. The bench canyons the county page covers are the seven mouths south of here; the canyon at this city's east window is Weber Canyon, which is a different landform with an interstate in it. Farmington Bay and its birding ground are at the far southwest corner. And the county's paid family outings are all south of Layton. All seven are indexed on the Davis County hub, and this companion links the two it uses rather than writing thin versions of the other five.
If you only have one day
A gravel river bank, a fort site, a park at the west end and a drive along the pits.
First thing
Walk the gravel end
The city's stretch of the river trail off Cottonwood Drive, ten feet wide and deliberately unpaved, kept close to the bank so anglers can reach the water. Free, and an hour.
The trail pageMid morning
Drive Old Fort Road
A fort site, a 2006 memorial at 475 East, a pioneer cemetery a canal closed, a paddock and a dog park, all on one street. Free, and forty minutes.
The street pageMidday
Stop at Canyon Meadows
The west end park at 631 East Peterson Parkway, with a bike track, a train, courts and bathrooms the city opens from 15 April to 15 October. Free, and an hour.
The parks pageOn the way out
Look at the pits
Two operators, a tunnel driven under the main street in 1991, and an Olympic road project that merged two workings into one. Free, and twenty minutes from the car.
The pits pageThe rhythm
Nine days at the turn of July into August, two bathroom calendars, and a fireworks map instead of a ban.
The city's own week is Country Fair Days, and it is nine days long in a city of about eight thousand people. The city's page, checked in August 2026, carries the 2026 dates as 31 July to 8 August, which is behind us, and separately publishes the pattern rather than only the year: it takes place the first week of August every year. The roster the city prints runs to sixteen coordinated events including a Little Buckaroo Rodeo, an Old Timers Ball Game, a chalk art day, a car show, a parade and a memorial race. It began in 1976, put together by one long time resident the city names, Kathy Poll. The festival page has the rest.
Summer here is also the season the city writes rules for. On 21 July 2026 the Mayor and the Fire Chief signed a joint statement maintaining the targeted fireworks restrictions established on 26 June 2026, published as the SWC Firework Restrictions Map, and the statement is explicit that this is not an all out ban on personal fireworks within city limits but a map that allows use in lower risk areas and prohibits it in high hazard ones. The permitted window it names was 22 to 25 July 2026, subject to state and local rules, under the authority of the State Forester. The hazard the two officials name is the city's own ground and weather: the brush, grass and tree covered areas, in ongoing dry and windy conditions.
The parks run on two calendars and the city publishes both. Canyon Meadows Park opens its bathrooms from 15 April to 15 October. Cherry Farms opens its from 1 April to 31 October. Two parks, two different published seasons, in one city, on one page. Park boweries, the Central Park stage, the Canyon Meadows courts and a concession stand are all bookable, all priced in the fee schedule, and all reserved and paid for at the Family Activity Center rather than online, and the schedule states plainly that refunds will not be issued due to inclement weather.
The rest of the calendar is civic and it moves on a fixed rhythm. The City Council meets at six in the evening on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, a detail the city prints in its drinking water report of all places, and meetings are streamed on the city's own channel. The Family Activity Center runs an unusual clock: weekdays from five in the morning to half past eight and again from half past three until ten at night, closed in the middle of the day, and Saturdays from nine until ten. The parks page carries the booking counter and the whole twelve site inventory.
Three of this city's own pages carry no date at all, and one of the dates they do carry has already passed. The history page describes the Dog Park as brand new and Canyon Meadows Park as currently under construction, with no year on either sentence, while the parks page lists the Canyon Meadows courts and bike track as amenities that exist. The Country Fair Days page prints 31 July to 8 August 2026, which is in the past as of 16 August 2026, and no page may present that edition as upcoming. The trail charity working on the river bank publishes its project updates under season headings rather than dates, so the current construction phase there cannot be dated at all. Take the year from an anchor inside the text or print no year, and never assume a city page is current because it is still up.
The South Weber companion
Seven pages, and every one of them starts at a document the city published itself.
Everything The Local has written about South Weber: the river trail that is gravel by ordinance rather than by neglect, the gravel pits with a numbered resolution and a numeric dust standard behind them, the one street carrying a fort site and a pioneer cemetery and a paddock, the twelve park sites and the counter you book them at, the nine day festival a resident started in 1976, the wind the city named itself after, and what an address here actually asks of a household once five separate bodies are involved in the water, the sewer and the fire engine.
Quick answers
South Weber, answered.
Because of one act of the Territorial Legislature in 1855, and the city publishes the answer itself. Settlement began in 1851, and the only town at the mouth of Weber Canyon was East Weber, also called Easton, which took in the ground on both the north and the south sides of the river. In 1855 the legislature divided Easton in two, named the north side Uintah and the south side South Weber, and in the same act designated the Weber River as the dividing line between Weber and Davis Counties. So the name records which half of a Weber County town this was, and the county records which side of the river it ended up on.
No, and neither is it inside Uintah. Census geocoder probes run at fine spacing on 16 August 2026 put South Weber's northern limit at the east end at about latitude 41.136 to 41.137 and Uintah town's southern limit at about 41.138 to 41.140, with unincorporated Weber County in the strip between them, which is where the canyon mouth and the river corridor through it sit. The city sits at the mouth of the canyon, which is how the city describes itself, but the mouth itself is county ground. The city's own adopted trails plan agrees from the other side: the Weber Canyon trailhead it proposes is drawn outside the city limits and is still labelled proposed.
South Weber City does. The city issues the annual drinking water quality report as the supplier, opening it by addressing the reader as its customer and describing the water it delivers every day, and it sets its own rates in its consolidated fee schedule: a 700 dollar connection fee for a standard three quarter inch meter on new construction and a residential base rate of 38.43 dollars a month with six usage tiers above it. Secondary irrigation water is a different question with a different answer, because the city states plainly that it does not provide secondary water and publishes four separate companies that do, one of which is the South Weber Water Improvement District.
It has its own fire department and it contracts its policing. The Mayor and the Fire Chief, Derek Tolman, jointly signed the city's July 2026 fireworks statement on South Weber City Fire Department letterhead; the city's annual report carries a fire and emergency medical panel; the consolidated fee schedule sets ambulance fees under the state's ground ambulance rule and gives city firefighters a Family Activity Center pass; and the federal place name file carries the South Weber City Fire Department as a named building. Policing comes from the Davis County Sheriff's Office, whose figures appear in the city's own annual report, and which publishes that it gives dedicated service to South Weber alongside Fruit Heights and West Point.
On the evidence, yes, and almost nothing says so. The Weber Basin Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center, a U.S. Department of Labor training centre, publishes its address as 7400 Cornia Drive with an Ogden postal city, and the Census Bureau geocoder returned South Weber city, Davis County for that address on 16 August 2026, at the far eastern edge of the boundary. Two separate city documents corroborate it: the adopted trails plan locates the shoreline trail's descent above the Weber Basin Job Corps, and the consolidated fee schedule carries Job Corps as its own sewer rate class, at 770.49 dollars a month for the city portion against 113.90 for a school.
Into city pipes and then into a Weber County district. The city maintains the collection lines under title 8 chapter 3 of its own code and takes the backup calls, while treatment and disposal run through the Central Weber Sewer Improvement District. The statement shows both halves separately: 14.33 dollars a month for the city portion and 25.17 for the district, which the city collects on the district's behalf while noting that the district assesses its own fees. That is roughly 39.50 dollars a month from two bodies on one bill, and it is one more thing about this city that points north across the 1855 line rather than south into its own county.
Two working sand and gravel operations, run by Staker Parson and Geneva Companies, that predate the city itself. The city's own standing page on them records workings back to the 1930s, before the town incorporated in 1938, expansion in the 1960s, a tunnel driven under South Weber Drive in 1991 by Parson Sand and Gravel to reach the north side, and a reroute of South Weber Drive for a new interchange ahead of the 2002 Winter Olympics that merged the northern and southern pits into one. Dust is governed by the city's Resolution 2003-36 and by state opacity limits, and enforcement sits with the state Division of Air Quality rather than with the city.
In stages, and the city publishes each one with names attached. Settlement began in 1851 with the arrival of the Watts and Bybee families. The Town of South Weber was incorporated in 1938, with Joseph Staples as President of the Town Board. It became a Third Class City on 16 March 1971, at a population of 1,073, and LeRoy Poll became its first Mayor. Note what that means for anniversaries: no round one falls in 2026. The ninetieth year of town incorporation lands in 2028 and the sixtieth year of city status on 16 March 2031, so any celebration advertised for this year is not one of those.
Davis School District, which is worth stating plainly because almost everything else about this city points into Weber County. The city names two schools of its own on its history page: South Weber Elementary, serving kindergarten through sixth grade at 1285 East Lester Drive, and Highmark Charter School, serving kindergarten through ninth grade, which the federal school directory lists at 2467 East South Weber Drive as its own local education agency rather than as a district school. Junior high and high school assignment depends on the address and moves over time, so take it from the district's boundary map for a specific property. This page makes no assessment of any school.
Seven pages on a city that publishes more about itself than most cities ten times its size.
South Weber is small, closed in and unusually well documented, and the documents are where the useful answers are. Which of four secondary irrigation companies serves a given lot, because the city publishes a look up for exactly that question and will not bill you for it. What the monthly utility statement actually totals, because the city prints the sample. Which parcels sit under the flight pattern and which sit on the floodplain, because those are two different maps and both matter here. And what a ceiling of fourteen thousand means for a street that still has agricultural ground behind it. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works this corner, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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