Moving to Farr West, where the sprinklers get their own water bill

Because drinking water and sprinkler water often come from two different systems. Bona Vista Water bills the culinary supply, the treated water at the tap, and carries the city's garbage, sewer, storm water and road fee on the same monthly statement. Many lots also carry a separate secondary irrigation account, untreated water meant only for lawns and gardens, supplied through Pineview Water Systems or Mountain View Irrigation depending on the parcel. That is the second bill. Expect two water accounts rather than one, set both up at closing, and confirm which secondary supplier serves the exact lot, because it is not the same across the city.

Bona Vista Water bills drinking water plus the city's garbage, sewer, storm water and road fee on one monthly statement. Many properties also carry a separate secondary irrigation account for the sprinklers through Pineview Water Systems or Mountain View Irrigation. Electricity comes from Rocky Mountain Power and natural gas from Enbridge Gas, each its own account. So a full setup for a Farr West house is typically Bona Vista, a secondary irrigation supplier where the lot has one, plus power and gas. Confirm each provider for the exact address when you set up service, because the secondary supplier in particular varies parcel by parcel.

Fire and rescue come from the Weber Fire District, a regional body rather than a city department, which runs Station 61 inside Farr West at 2023 W 1300 N and serves a wide slice of the county from Marriott-Slaterville and West Haven to Huntsville and Ogden Valley. In practice the coverage is the same as a city department; the difference is that it is a district. The Weber County Sheriff's Office provides police service by contract.

Not inside the city. The Weber County Library System runs no branch in Farr West, so a household here uses the North Branch at 475 E 2600 N in North Ogden or the main library on Jefferson Avenue in Ogden, each about 11 minutes away. A county library card works at every branch in the system and holds travel between them, so it is a real service, just not a local building. If a weekly library habit matters to your household, it is a genuine thing to weigh before choosing a street in Farr West.

The one figure given here is a census statistic, labeled as one. The Census Bureau's five-year estimates for 2020 to 2024 put the median value of an owner occupied home in Farr West at about $563,000, give or take roughly $30,600. That is a survey of what owners report their homes are worth, not a record of what anything sold for, and it should never be treated as a sale price. Small markets produce figures that land far apart by method, so for what a specific home is worth, price it against its own comparables. What is on the market belongs to this site's practical Farr West city guide.

It honors two men, not a direction. Farr West was settled as farm ground in 1858 and was part of Harrisville until 1890, when the western end split off and took the name Farr West for two Weber County leaders of the era: Lorin Farr, the first mayor of Ogden, and Chauncey W. West. The city's own older material spells the second name Chauncy, but the historical record has it as Chauncey. So the name is the surnames Farr and West, rather than a place that is far to the west, which is the folk story that tends to attach to it.

Farr West incorporated in 1980, the twelfth city in Weber County, and began formal operation on the first of January 1981, after residents had worked toward it through a town planning process over the preceding years. It is a young government for an old place: the land was farmed from 1858 and stayed agricultural for well over a century, and the city organized itself only when the growth arrived. That late incorporation fits the whole character of Farr West, a farming community that became a suburb and is still managing the change, most visibly now at the freeway.

No. Farr West is its own city, with its own government, its own tax area and its own services, even though searches and mailing addresses often lump the area under Ogden. The confusion comes from the address grid: Ogden's numbered addresses run out through the cities northwest of it, so many Farr West places, including the Smith and Edwards store and Farr West Elementary, carry an Ogden mailing address while sitting on Farr West ground. For anything that keys on jurisdiction, the county parcel record settles which city a property is in, and the mailing address does not.

Three things. Set up two water accounts rather than one, because many lots carry a separate secondary irrigation bill on top of the Bona Vista statement, and confirm which supplier serves the parcel. Get the school assignment from the Weber School District boundary tool rather than an old feeder list, because the district redrew its western lines when West Field High opened in 2024. And confirm which city the parcel is actually in, from the county record rather than the mailing address, because a Farr West address and an Ogden envelope are not the same thing and the resident rate at city facilities keys on the line.