Schneiter's Bluff, thirty feet that decide more than they look like.

The only landform in West Point, and the city names it in its own adopted plan. The Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan of 2 May 2023 calls it a geologic feature that parallels the route of the trail, running southeast to northwest, and describes it descending abruptly nearly thirty feet toward the Great Salt Lake and the Howard Slough State Waterfowl Management Area, which define the western edge of the community. The same plan describes the rest of the city as relatively flat, sloping gently from east to west. The step is crossed by ordinary streets, has no overlook, trailhead or sign on it, and is closest to about 4100 West.

The western side, below the step. The city's Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan states that lands below the bluff to the west are characterised by high water tables while those above it to the east are generally well drained. The General Plan Update adopted 17 December 2024 puts the point citywide and more sharply, saying the vast majority of the city has been identified as having high water tables and that not all types of development or subgrade construction is appropriate. The city carries two adopted measures on the subject, one to maintain and revise the mapping of its land drain and mitigation requirements and one to keep disseminating that information.

Because the city drew its culinary service boundary along it. West Point's own utilities page, read 20 August 2026, says most houses west of the bluff, at approximately 4100 West, will be on the Hooper water system for their drinking water, giving the district's telephone number, website and an office at 5555 West 5500 South in Hooper. The General Plan states the same split as a West Point water service on the east half and the Hooper Water Improvement District on the west half, with the majority of residents in the city's own service area. Two providers means two rate schedules, and a rate published by the city applies to about half the city.

The city publishes it as approximately 4100 West, which is an approximation and not a parcel boundary. The word the city uses is approximately, and the physical feature it follows is a landform rather than a surveyed line, so an address near that longitude cannot be assigned to a provider by eye or from a map. The correct answer for any specific property comes from the city or from the Hooper Water Improvement District directly, and it is worth settling before comparing two addresses on anything else about the water, because the two providers publish different rates and run different billing arrangements.

A state waterfowl management area on unincorporated Davis County ground immediately west of the West Point city limit, at the bottom of the slope below the bluff. The Division of Wildlife Resources describes its survey ground in three sections: a shoreline section between the Antelope Island causeway and the southernmost dike, a dike section of lake shoreline west of the management area's dikes, and a ponds section of drivable impoundments, across salt and freshwater marsh, shoreline, riparian and adjacent upland. It is working managed wetland rather than a park; a 2020 project surfaced 9,300 linear feet of secondary dike with 1,623 tons of road base for 24,000 dollars because staff were getting stuck in the mud.

Yes, since 1 July 2026, and it is the same rule that governs the better known wetland at the other end of the county. Anyone entering a listed wildlife or waterfowl management area in a class one or class two county now needs either a valid Utah hunting, fishing or combination licence or the wildlife division's free digital access permit, and the division's own management area page, read 20 August 2026, lists Howard Slough among the areas covered. How the permit works, how long it lasts, who it applies to and how the rule phases in statewide over the following two years are all carried on the county page about the bay and the birding rather than repeated here.

The city publishes only that it is privately owned and operated, an eighteen hole course of 136.3 acres, which the Parks Master Plan credits with contributing to the green and open feel of the community. No published source carries the operator's own rates, season, hours or booking arrangements anywhere, so none is printed here, and anybody planning around it should ring the course. What is worth knowing is the scale: 136.3 acres is larger than the city's 49.5 acres of parks, its 4.2 acre cemetery and its roughly 40.9 acres of city owned open space put together. The town's biggest expanse of mown grass is not municipal.

The city publishes a range rather than a single figure, and the range is the useful form. Its Parks, Recreation and Trails Master Plan gives elevations from nearly 4,400 feet at the highest points on the east side of the city down to less than 4,220 feet near the Great Salt Lake, a fall of about 180 feet across roughly seven and a half square miles, thirty of which happen at once at the bluff. The practical city guide on this site gives a single spot elevation of about 4,288 feet, which is the wrong shape of fact for a city that publishes a range and has a named step running through the middle of it.

No. Point probes across the western half of the municipality at the Census Bureau's own geocoder, run 16 August 2026 on a tenth of a degree grid, return unincorporated Davis County at every latitude tested west of roughly longitude 112.125 west. The shorelands, the Howard Slough Waterfowl Management Area and the open water all lie beyond the city limit on county ground. The city's parks plan is accurate as written because it says the lake and the management area define the western edge of the community, which describes the view rather than the jurisdiction. The practical city guide on this site instead places the city on Farmington Bay, which is a different arm of the lake south of the Antelope Island causeway.