The roads Harrisville
The roads, the address grid, and which city you are actually in
Harrisville Road and the grid, or why the busiest road here is also the border
Almost everything written about this city's roads has the numbers backward. Washington Boulevard through Harrisville is SR-235, not US-89, and for most of the retail stretch it is the line between Harrisville and Ogden rather than a street inside either. US-89 is Harrisville Road, the diagonal through the middle of town, and then Highway 89 north of it. Every address here sits on Ogden's street numbers, carries an Ogden post office, and shares its 84404 ZIP code with the cities around it.
By Scott Buehler, Moving Utah
Updated October 2026
The short answer
US-89 through Harrisville is Harrisville Road, the diagonal that cuts through the middle of town, and then Highway 89 where it turns north toward Pleasant View and Brigham City. It is not Washington Boulevard. Washington Boulevard here is SR-235, and for most of the retail stretch it is not a street inside the city at all: it is the line between Harrisville and Ogden, so a shop or a house on the far curb sits in Ogden. Every address in the city runs on Ogden's street numbers and an Ogden post office, on the 84404 ZIP code, even though the city, the police and the tax district are all Harrisville's. There is no freeway interchange in town, no rail station, and one bus route down the boulevard that doubles as the city line.
Which road is US-89
Which road is actually US-89, and is Washington Boulevard even in town?
Start with the boundary, because it is the part that costs people money. Of the Washington Boulevard segments that touch Harrisville, eleven read Harrisville on one side and Ogden on the other, one reads Ogden on both, and two touch North Ogden. The boulevard is a line, not a street through the middle of the city, and a business or a house on its east curb is in Ogden, not Harrisville. Harrisville Road repeats the pattern further south, where seven of its fifteen segments carry one city on one curb and another on the other.
Now the numbers, and this is where almost everything published about Harrisville goes wrong. Washington Boulevard through this city is SR-235. The Wall Avenue reach is SR-204, not the SR-126 that carries Wall Avenue further south. And US-89 comes up out of Ogden on the Harrisville Road diagonal, then turns north as Highway 89 toward Pleasant View and Brigham City. All three are state highways, and the two that run through the middle of the city are the diagonal and its continuation, not the boulevard on the edge.
That one correction turns the whole map around. Harrisville Road is not a local street with a city name on it. It is a United States highway, and it is the reason there is a city here to name at all. The diagonal is the old road, and the numbered grid was laid around it afterward, which is why the streets break at an angle across the middle of an otherwise square city. Any account that treats Washington Boulevard as the spine has Harrisville backward: the boulevard is the edge, and the highway through the middle is the reason.
The traffic counts make the same point in another currency. On the most recent state figures, from 2017, Washington Boulevard as SR-235 carried between 26,000 and 32,000 vehicles a day, while US-89 through the middle of town carried about 14,000 on Harrisville Road and about 15,000 on the Highway 89 reach north of it. The busiest road in Harrisville is the one that is also its border. Those counts are dated 2017 and the transportation department publishes newer ones, so treat them as the shape of the thing rather than this year's number.
The address grid
Ogden's street numbers and Ogden's post office, across a separate city
The state's road records answer the address question, even where the route numbers look contradictory at first. Every road inside the city limits carries an Ogden address system and an Ogden postal community, while the city on the same record reads Harrisville. That is the confusion in one line: the city is Harrisville, the numbering is Ogden's, and the post office is Ogden's. A Harrisville home writes Ogden on its mail and stands on Ogden's street numbers, and still pays into a Harrisville tax district and answers to a Harrisville police department.
The ZIP code is 84404, and it is Ogden's, not Harrisville's own. The surrounding cities share it, so a ZIP code here settles nothing about jurisdiction and neither does a mailing address. An Ogden address on 84404 might be in Ogden, in Harrisville, or in a neighboring city that shares the post office, and only the parcel record and the city itself can tell you which.
On the grid, Harrisville runs roughly from 700 North up to 2550 North, and from Washington Boulevard on the east out to about 1050 West, which is the shape the street names trace rather than a line the city draws. The city's own description is the plainest anybody publishes: about two miles northwest of downtown Ogden, bounded by Ogden, North Ogden, Pleasant View and Farr West. The legible part of all this is that a Harrisville address, given as a north number and a west number, lands on a map without any local knowledge, which is more than a lot of Utah towns can say.
An address on Washington Boulevard is as likely to be in Ogden as in Harrisville, and the ZIP code will not tell you which. Eleven of the Washington Boulevard segments along this city read Harrisville on one side and Ogden on the other, and Harrisville Road does the same on nearly half its length. Every address in the city carries an Ogden post office and the 84404 ZIP code, and that code is shared across the surrounding cities, so an Ogden mailing address tells you nothing about which city government the property is in, which police answer, or who collects its share of the tax. The county assessor's parcel record carries the city on every parcel and settles it in one look.
The routes
The state highways and the city streets, and the numbers almost everyone prints wrong
Every through road in Harrisville is a state highway, numbered SR-235, US-89 or SR-204, and two of the three are not the numbers in general circulation. Here is each one with its owner, its most recent published traffic count and its posted speed.
| The road | Route | Owner | Daily traffic, 2017 | Posted speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Blvd | SR-235 | State (UDOT) | 26,000 to 32,000 | 50 |
| Harrisville Road, the diagonal | US-89 | State (UDOT) | 14,000 | 50 |
| Highway 89, north of the diagonal | US-89 | State (UDOT) | 15,000 | 55 |
| Wall Avenue | SR-204 | State (UDOT) | 14,000 | 50 |
The daily counts are the 2017 figures in the state's road data, the newest it carries, and the transportation department publishes newer ones, so take a current number from the agency if a decision rests on it. Everything else in the city is a city street on the same Ogden grid.
The details
No interchange, no winter list
There is no freeway interchange in Harrisville. The city's western edge stops well short of Interstate 15, and the interchange a driver uses heading north is at 2700 North, on Farr West and Pleasant View ground rather than in this city. No public body publishes a drive time from anywhere in the city to the freeway, so every figure in circulation is somebody's estimate off a map. And none of these roads closes for the season: down on the valley floor at about 4,300 feet the roads are the roads all year, unlike the canyon and pass roads on the benches to the east and north.
Before you go
- Check the side of the street before assuming a Harrisville Road or Washington Boulevard address is in Harrisville. Both roads are the city line along part of their length.
- The route numbers in general circulation are wrong. Washington Boulevard is SR-235, Wall Avenue here is SR-204, and US-89 is Harrisville Road and Highway 89.
- There is no interchange in the city. The nearest one heading north is at 2700 North, on ground belonging to two other cities.
- The traffic counts here are 2017 figures. Take a current number from the transportation department if a decision rests on it.
Businesses and jobs
One very large store on the diagonal, and a bigger cluster nobody writes about
The one landmark in Harrisville is a store, and it is a store that puts the city's name on its own record instead of Ogden's. Walmart's store page gives store 2921 at 534 North Harrisville Road, and the county roll backs it up: about 20.48 acres, a 202,499 square foot building put up in 2000, on a plat the county calls Harrisville Retail Sub. That is the largest building in the city by a wide margin, and the plat name is the county's own evidence that the ground was laid out as one retail project rather than filling in over time.
The retail corridor is not the biggest commercial thing in the city, though. The largest commercial land holding inside the limits is about 53.37 acres out on 750 West, well away from both Washington Boulevard and Harrisville Road. There are two commercial areas here, not one: the Harrisville Retail plat on the diagonal, and the larger lots on 750 West. No public record says what sits on that 750 West ground, so a description that treats the boulevard as the whole story is missing the bigger half by acreage.
The employment behind all of it is about 1,961 jobs for 2023, from the state labor department's annual table for Weber County. Set that against roughly 7,150 residents and the shape is plain: the city holds well under a third as many jobs as people, so most of it drives out in the morning. The same table breaks jobs down by industry for Roy, Riverdale, Pleasant View and Farr West and prints nothing for Harrisville, which is what the department does when the industry cells would identify individual employers in a city this small. No dominant industry is read into that blank.
Beyond Walmart, no public body names a Harrisville employer. The state labor department, Weber County economic development and the city itself publish none, so the store that names itself is the only business on this page.
Getting around
One bus route, no station, and no interchange, and no drive time worth trusting
Transit here is one route and a question mark. The transit authority lists route 612 on Washington Boulevard among its Weber County services, running toward South Ogden one way and North Ogden the other, so the bus passes the city. What the authority does not do is name Harrisville as a stop, and no stop inside the city limits is confirmed. Since the boulevard is the city line for most of its length here, a stop on the east curb would be in Ogden, so anyone who needs a stop inside Harrisville should settle it with the transit authority rather than assume one.
There is no commuter rail station, no light rail and no bus rapid transit in Harrisville. Weber County has exactly two rail stations, at Ogden Central and in Roy, and neither is here. No public body publishes a drive time to either, so none is printed.
Hill Air Force Base sits south of the county and belongs to a Davis County guide, not this one. It is reached down the freeway corridor from here, and the guide to it carries the gates, the roads and the flying. Nothing about it belongs on a Harrisville page beyond that sentence.
Living with it
A US highway through the middle, and a boundary you cannot check from a listing
The roads are the part of a Harrisville address you meet every day, and the homework on them is cheap. Drive the diagonal at half past seven on a weekday and again on a Saturday afternoon, because Harrisville Road is a United States highway carrying about 14,000 vehicles a day past a supermarket, and the difference between a house on it and a house two streets off it is not something a listing photo shows. Then drive the boulevard, and work out where the address actually sits relative to it.
What the corridor gives back is the thing people mean when they call this a convenient address. The everyday shopping is inside the city rather than a drive into another one. Two state highways cross the middle of a three square mile city, so nothing here is far from a main road. And because the city sits on somebody else's grid, the numbering is legible: a north number and a west number place an address on a map without local knowledge.
What it costs is a car per driver and a couple of questions no screen can answer. There is one bus route, on the boundary, with no confirmed stop inside the city. There is no station and no interchange. And the two roads that matter most are, for part of their length, the city line, so the single most consequential fact about an address here, which city it is in, is the one thing neither the ZIP code nor the mailing address will tell you. The page on moving here sets out who answers the phone once you have settled it.
The busiest road in Harrisville is also its boundary, and the United States highway that made the place is the one with the city's own name on the sign.
Scott Buehler
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The roads, answered
No. Washington Boulevard through Harrisville and North Ogden is SR-235, on the transportation department's own route numbers. US-89 comes up out of Ogden on the Harrisville Road diagonal and then turns north as Highway 89 toward Pleasant View and Brigham City. The Wall Avenue reach here is SR-204, not the SR-126 that runs Wall Avenue further south. So the two route numbers most people attach to Washington Boulevard and Wall Avenue in this city are both wrong.
Only partly, and it is the fact worth carrying to a viewing. Of the Washington Boulevard segments that touch Harrisville, eleven read Harrisville on one side and Ogden on the other, one reads Ogden on both, and two read North Ogden on one side. The boulevard is the boundary between the two cities for most of the retail stretch, so a shop or a house on the east curb is in Ogden. Harrisville Road does the same thing further south, where seven of its fifteen segments carry a different city on each curb.
Because the post office and the street numbering are both Ogden's. Every road inside the city limits carries an Ogden address system and an Ogden postal community, while the city on the same record reads Harrisville. So a Harrisville house has Ogden street numbers and Ogden mail, and a Harrisville city government, a Harrisville police department and a Harrisville tax district. The mailing address is an arrangement with the post office, not a statement about which city the property sits in.
84404. Every road in the city carries it, and it is an Ogden ZIP code shared across the surrounding cities rather than one of Harrisville's own. Because the code is shared and the mailing address says Ogden, neither settles which city an address is in. The two things that do are the county assessor's parcel record, which names the city on every parcel, and the city itself.
No. The city's western edge stops well short of Interstate 15, and no interchange is inside the city limits. The interchange a Harrisville driver uses heading north is at 2700 North, which sits on Farr West and Pleasant View ground rather than in this city. No public body publishes a drive time from Harrisville to the freeway, to a rail station, to downtown Ogden or to an airport, and every such figure in circulation is an estimate off a map.
One bus route runs the corridor, and no stop inside the city is confirmed. The transit authority lists route 612 on Washington Boulevard among its Weber County services, heading toward South Ogden one way and North Ogden the other, so the service runs past the city. The authority does not name Harrisville as a stop, and since the boulevard is the city line for most of its length here, a stop on the east curb would be in Ogden. There is no commuter rail station, no light rail and no bus rapid transit in the city.
On the most recent counts in the state's road data, from 2017, Washington Boulevard as SR-235 ran between 26,000 and 32,000 vehicles a day at a posted 50, US-89 on the Harrisville Road diagonal ran about 14,000 at a posted 50, and Highway 89 north of the diagonal ran about 15,000 at a posted 55. The busiest road in the city is the one that is also its border. Those counts carry a 2017 date, and the transportation department publishes newer ones, so take a current figure from the agency if a decision rests on it.
About 1,961 for data year 2023, on the state labor department's annual table for Weber County. Against roughly 7,150 residents, that is well under a third as many jobs as people, so this is a city most people leave in the morning. The same table breaks jobs down by industry for Roy, Riverdale, Pleasant View and Farr West and prints nothing for Harrisville, which is what the department does when the industry cells would identify individual employers in a small city. No dominant industry is read into that blank here.
No public body names one. The state labor department, Weber County economic development and the city itself publish no employer name for this city. The one business that names itself is Walmart, whose own store record puts store 2921 at 534 North Harrisville Road, on a 20.48 acre parcel with a 202,499 square foot building of 2000, on a plat the county calls Harrisville Retail Sub. The largest commercial land holding in the city by area is elsewhere, about 53.37 acres out on 750 West, and no public record says what is on it.
A highway through the middle and a boundary down the busiest road in town
The roads decide more about a Harrisville address than almost anything else, and two of the questions they raise cannot be answered from a listing. Which city the property is actually in, because the mailing address and the ZIP code both say Ogden and both are shared with neighboring cities. And how a specific address sits relative to a US highway carrying about 14,000 vehicles a day through the middle of a three square mile city. Both are settled the same way: the county's parcel record for the exact address, then a drive at the hour that matters. Tell me the streets you are weighing and I will connect you with a Weber and Morgan partner agent who can pull the parcel before you drive out, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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