Moving here Harrisville
Its own police force and its own court, and no water system, fire station, library or cemetery inside the line
Moving to Harrisville, where the city runs a court and buys the water.
Harrisville is a complete small city government with almost no city infrastructure under it. It runs its own police department, its own justice court and its own public works and parks department on about 6,913 people, and it does not run a water system, a fire station, a library or a cemetery. Drinking water, sewer, storm water, street lights and rubbish arrive on one monthly bill from a district; fire and rescue come from a district headquartered in the next city; part of the city sits in a burial district that publishes no boundary. Three schools stand inside the limits and only one of them writes Harrisville on its own address.
My licence and my daily work sit at the far south end of the state, three hundred miles from this valley, so these pages are researched rather than lived. Everything on them was taken where it is issued: Harrisville City's own history, parks, utilities, events, directory and general plan pages; the city council minutes of 9 June 2020 posted on the Utah Public Notice Website; the Utah Division of Water Rights public water supplier record; the Utah Geospatial Resource Center for municipal boundaries, the Weber County assessor's roll, the national hydrography layer, the state road centerline and the state board of education school layer; the federal elevation point service; the North View Fire District; the transit authority's own schedules; the Census Bureau's American Community Survey and its boundary geometry; and the operators that publish their own addresses. Every figure carries the day it was read. A Weber and Morgan partner agent takes the ground level work.
The short answer
A Harrisville address buys a complete small city government and almost no city infrastructure. Harrisville runs its own police department, its own justice court and its own public works and parks department on about 6,913 people, and does not run a water system, a fire station, a library or a cemetery. Drinking water, sewer, storm water, street lights and rubbish arrive on one monthly bill from a district. Fire and rescue come from a district headquartered in the next city. The nearest library branch is in North Ogden. Three schools sit inside the city limits and only one of them uses a Harrisville mailing address. The census puts the median value of an owner occupied home here at $397,600. Checked 21 August 2026.
The live question
Who do you actually call, when the city runs a court but not a water main?
Harrisville has an unusual division of labour for a city of under seven thousand, and getting it straight before the first problem is worth an hour. What the city itself runs, on its own directory read 21 August 2026, is a police department under Chief Mark Wilson and Assistant Chief Nick Taylor, a justice court under Judge Trent Nelson with its own clerk and prosecutor, a public works and parks department under Director Bryan Fife, a recreation programme under a coordinator, and the ordinary municipal offices: Mayor Roger Shuman, five council members, City Administrator Jennie Knight, Recorder Jack Fogal, Treasurer Jill Hunt and a planning commission chaired by Angie Francom. One switchboard on 801-782-4100 reaches all of it.
What the city does not run is longer. Drinking water, sewer, storm water, street lights and rubbish all bill through Bona Vista Water Improvement District, and the state marked Harrisville's own public water system inactive around 1990. Fire and rescue come from the North View Fire District, whose own mission statement names its communities as North Ogden, Pleasant View and Harrisville and whose administration sits at 315 East 2550 North in North Ogden; neither of its two stations is in this city. There is no library branch inside the limits and the nearest is the Weber County Library System north branch at 475 East 2600 North, which a parcel test puts inside North Ogden. There is no cemetery, and part of the city sits inside a burial district run from the next town.
That combination is worth stating plainly rather than reading anything into. A city that keeps a police department and a court, and buys its water and its fire cover from districts, has made a set of choices that most suburbs of this size have made in the opposite order. The practical consequence for a household is a short list of numbers rather than one: the city for anything municipal, the district for the utility bill, a different district for irrigation water in part of town, a fire district for the emergency side, and the county for the library and the parcel record.
The other half of the same question is which body decides what gets built. The city publishes a general plan adopted to comply with Utah Code title 10, chapter 9a, describing itself as a framework for local decisions on land use and development. It carries no adoption date on its landing page and its land use and zoning maps are hosted off site on a private engineering firm's domain rather than the city's. The planning commission meets at seven in the evening on the first Wednesday at City Hall. For a city with one very large piece of undeveloped ground in it, that meeting is the room where its future is decided.
Who runs what
Five different bodies serve one three square mile city, and only one of them answers on the city's own number.
The whole service map for a Harrisville address in one place, with the body named and the point of contact where one is published. Read at the city, at the fire district, at the county and at the state on 21 August 2026.
| The service | The body | Where it sits | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Police | Harrisville City Police Department | City Hall, 363 West Independence Blvd | The city runs its own force, under Chief Mark Wilson with Assistant Chief Nick Taylor. Chief Wilson is recorded in the same role in the city's council minutes of 9 June 2020, so the post is long held. There is no county sheriff contract to describe |
| Courts | Harrisville Justice Court | City Hall | Judge Trent Nelson, with the city's own court clerk and its own prosecutor. A city of under seven thousand running its own justice court is unusual and it is a real civic fact rather than a flourish |
| Fire and rescue | North View Fire District | Administration at 315 East 2550 North, North Ogden, on 801-782-8159 | The district's own mission statement names North Ogden, Pleasant View and Harrisville as its communities. It runs stations 21 and 22 and neither of them is inside Harrisville |
| Drinking water, sewer, storm water, street lights, rubbish | Bona Vista Water Improvement District, with Waste Management hauling | District on 801-621-0474; rubbish set up through the city on 801-782-4100 option three | One monthly bill for five services. The state's public water supplier record for Harrisville City itself is marked inactive with a note dated 1990 |
| Secondary irrigation water | Pineview Water Systems, or the Four Mile Special Service District | 801-621-6555, or the city's own switchboard | Two providers, one city, and no published boundary between them. The city says which serves an address depends on the parcel |
| Schools | Weber School District, plus one charter authority of its own | District offices outside the city | Three schools sit inside the city limits, two of them Weber District and one a charter with its own authority. Weber High School is in Pleasant View. The district's boundary tool is the only authority on which building an address feeds |
| Library | Weber County Library System | North branch, 475 East 2600 North, a parcel test puts it inside North Ogden | There is no branch in Harrisville. The county system also runs branches in Ogden, Huntsville and Roy |
| Burial | Ben Lomond Cemetery District, for part of the city | 526 East 2850 North, North Ogden, on 801-782-5032 | Harrisville operates no cemetery of its own. The district's own definition of its in district area is North Ogden, Pleasant View and northern parts of Harrisville, and it draws no line on a map, so an address near the middle of the city is a phone call rather than a lookup |
| Planning and land use | Harrisville City Planning Commission and City Council | City Hall, first Wednesday at seven in the evening for the commission | The city's general plan is adopted under Utah Code title 10, chapter 9a and carries no adoption date on its landing page. The land use and zoning maps are hosted on a private engineering firm's domain rather than the city's |
Read at harrisvillecity.gov, northviewfire.gov, the Weber County Library System listing and the Utah Division of Water Rights on 21 August 2026, with parcel tests run against the state's municipal boundary layer the same day. The cemetery district's in district definition comes from the district's own published record. No rate, fee or plot price is printed here for any of these bodies.
Two lines in that table are worth reading twice. The first is the burial district, because it is the only civic fact about Harrisville that splits the city in half. The district's own words are that its in district area covers North Ogden, Pleasant View and northern parts of Harrisville, and it publishes no line. So some Harrisville addresses are inside it and some are not, the difference is real money at the time it matters, and only the district can answer for a specific address. It is exactly the sort of thing nobody thinks to ask during a purchase.
The second is the fire district, which is stated here without editorial. The district that covers this city is headquartered in North Ogden and neither of its stations stands inside Harrisville. That is a plain fact about response geometry and it is the district's own published information, not an assessment of anything.
The details
Getting there
City Hall sits on Independence Boulevard, which runs east and west across the middle of the city on Ogden's numbering. Independence Park is on the same street within a few blocks, although the city gives more than one address for it, and the twelve boxes of the community garden are on the east side of the City Hall car park itself.
Before you go
- The Friday half day is real and it is easy to lose an afternoon to. The city closes at noon on Fridays and on holidays.
- One switchboard covers almost everything the city does, including one of the two secondary irrigation providers. The drinking water district is a different number.
- The planning commission meets on the first Wednesday at seven in the evening, and the council meets in the evening too, both at this building, with meetings posted on the state's public notice site.
- The community garden gives twelve boxes out first come first served, with the city providing the space and the water and asking that boxes are cleared by 1 November.
The schools
Three inside the city limits, and only one of them writes Harrisville on its own address.
A point test of the Utah State Board of Education school layer for the 2026 school year against the Harrisville city polygon, run on 21 August 2026, puts three schools inside the city. Orion Jr High, a Weber School District school for grades seven to nine at 370 West 2000 North, with 974 students, is the only one of the three publishing a Harrisville postal city. Majestic School, a Weber District school for preschool through grade six at 425 West 2550 North, with 660 students, publishes an Ogden address on the 84414 postcode. Greenwood Charter School, kindergarten through grade eight at 840 North Highway 89, with 360 students, publishes an Ogden address on 84404 and is its own charter authority rather than a Weber District school.
This site's practical city guide names only Orion, so two of the three are missing from it, and one of the two is not a district school at all. That distinction matters for anybody researching an address here: a page that says Harrisville is in the Weber School District and stops there is incomplete, because a charter with its own authority operates inside the city and admits on its own terms rather than by boundary. The district runs the boundary tool and is the only authority on which building a given address feeds.
Two schools that people associate with Harrisville are not in it. Weber High School, grades ten to twelve with 1,915 students, sits inside Pleasant View on the same point test, although it does serve this area, and this site's city guide says it serves the area rather than claiming a location, which is the right way round. Pioneer School, kindergarten through grade six with 363 students, sits inside Marriott-Slaterville. That second one matters because Harrisville City names Pioneer Elementary School as its partner in the Fall Festival, so the city's one annual event is run in partnership with a school in the next city along.
One small disagreement is worth printing rather than smoothing. The state board layer gives an opening date for Orion Jr High in 2002; the Weber County assessor's roll gives the building on the school parcel a build year of 2004, on 20.68 acres with 127,871 square feet. Both are public records and they are measuring different things. Nothing else about these schools is stated on this page: no ranking, no quality claim and no breakdown of any kind, even though the source layer carries one.
Harrisville, in the numbers a household uses
$397,600
median value of owner occupied housing, U.S. Census ACS 2020-2024, plus or minus $24,541
3
schools inside the city limits, two Weber District and one charter with its own authority
2,866
parcels on the county roll inside three square miles, under about two hundred plat names
4,297 ft
ground elevation at City Hall on the federal elevation point service
The land
A building record with a dip in the middle of it, and 55.86 acres nobody official has published a word about.
The Weber County assessor's roll, as the state republishes it and as it stood on 29 October 2025, gives a clearer picture of what has actually happened to this city than anything the city itself publishes. Counting building records on parcels inside the limits, construction ran at 83, 82, 89 and 103 structures across 2015 to 2018, fell to 68, 41, 43 and 39 across 2019 to 2022, and came back to 80 in 2023 and 91 in 2024. That is a city that was building hard, stopped for four years, and started again. It matches the population line, which fell from the 2020 census count of 7,036 to about 6,870 in 2024 and then rose to about 6,913 in 2025.
The plat names underneath tell you where the recent work went. Setting aside the older families, the plats carrying the most post 2020 building records are The Copperwoods At Harrisville, Ashlar Cove Subdivision 1st Amendment, Montgomery Farms Ph 2, Plushnest and Warren Hollow On Larsen Lane. That is a small number of named developments doing most of the recent work, which is what infill looks like in a city with very little unbuilt ground left. This site's practical city guide describes exactly that pattern and is right about it.
And then there is the exception. The largest single parcel inside Harrisville is 55.86 acres addressed 1800 North Highway 89, classed residential, carrying one small building put up in 1973, with no plat name against it on the county roll and effectively no recent construction on it. Its boundary crosses the North Ogden line. More than five hundred parcel rows around it carry a golf name. What was there, what is planned and when anything changes is not published by the city, the county or the state in anything reached on 21 August 2026, and this companion does not fill the gap from anywhere else.
The biggest piece of ground in this city has no published future, and anything you read about one did not come from a public body. The 55.86 acres at 1800 North Highway 89 is the largest single parcel inside Harrisville on the county's own roll, it carries no plat name, and the ground around it is ringed by more than five hundred parcel rows named for a golf course. Harrisville City's own website returns one result for a search on the word golf and it is about the disc golf course at the main park. No adoption date appears on the city's general plan landing page and its land use and zoning maps sit on a private engineering firm's domain. So anybody weighing an address near that ground should treat every claim about it in circulation as unsourced until the city says otherwise, and should take the question to the planning commission, which meets at seven in the evening on the first Wednesday at City Hall. Checked 21 August 2026.
The county event center is next door and it is not in this city
Roughly two thirds of a mile off the southwest corner of this city sits a large county venue that a great many people file under Harrisville. It is not here. The jurisdiction question is settled on the hub, and what belongs on a mover page is the consequence: a household at this address lives within a very short drive of a venue it has no say in, pays nothing toward it through the city, and will hear its bigger events without any of them appearing on a Harrisville calendar.
That combination is worth naming because it repeats around the edges of a three square mile city. The venue is one example; the retail on the far kerb of the boulevard is another, and so is the fire station in the next town. Living here means a hinterland of things that are near and not yours. The venue publishes its own address and its own ownership, and everything programmed inside it belongs to Weber County rather than to this city, so nothing else about it is described on this companion.
Living with it
A short list of phone numbers, and two questions a listing cannot answer.
The honest summary of what a Harrisville address asks is that it asks very little, and that the little it asks is specific. Settle which city the property is actually in, using the county's parcel record rather than the postcode or the mailing address, because both of those say Ogden and both are shared with neighbouring cities. Settle which of the two secondary irrigation providers serves the parcel, in writing. Settle whether the address falls in the part of the city inside the burial district, by ringing the district. And look at what sits within a street or two of the largest undeveloped parcel in the city, because nobody official has published what happens to it.
What the address gives back is the ordinary suburban set, delivered by a government small enough to answer its own phone. One number for the city, one bill for five utilities, three parks with three walking tracks, everyday shopping inside the city rather than a drive away, and a police department and a court that belong to the place rather than to a contract. The census puts the median value of an owner occupied home here at $397,600 on the 2020-2024 five-year estimates, with a margin of error of plus or minus $24,541, which in a city this size is about six percent of the estimate and is worth carrying alongside the figure. This site's practical city guide is where the market side of that belongs, not here.
What it does not give is a fire station, a library, a cemetery, a rail station, a freeway interchange or a confirmed bus stop inside its own limits, and it does not give a summer celebration either. Every one of those is a short drive, and the region's bigger subjects are longer ones: the canyon, the resorts and the reservoirs are all reached through Ogden or the valley beyond it, and the region hub indexes them. A Harrisville address is a small complete city with a large borrowed hinterland, and knowing which is which before an offer is the whole point of this companion.
The city runs a police force and a court and buys its water from a district. Learning that division on day one is worth more than any amount of description.
Keep reading
Five more pages on Harrisville, and what each one settles.
The three parks
The parks and the pond
Three parks, three walking tracks, and the only distance this city puts a number to.
Read the guideThe city's year
The Fall Festival and the city's year
One October evening, and the celebration a council cut in a budget meeting in 2020.
Read the guideThe roads
Harrisville Road and the grid
US-89 is Harrisville Road, and the boulevard everybody calls the spine is the border.
Read the guideThe water
The water and the ditches
No river, one creek the federal record calls pipe and ditch, and five bills in one.
Read the guideHow it got here
The brick years
A log home in 1851, a brickyard that ran until 2012, and a township clock at 3:27.
Read the guideThe whole set
Harrisville, in full
A separate city of 6,913 on Ogden's street numbers, with its own court and no water main.
Open the companionQuick answers
Moving here, answered.
Yes, and it is unusual for a city this size. The city's own directory names Chief of Police Mark Wilson and Assistant Chief Nick Taylor, reached through the City Hall number on 801-782-4100, and Chief Wilson is recorded in the same role in the city's council minutes of 9 June 2020, so the post is long held. There is no county sheriff contract to describe. The city also runs its own justice court under Judge Trent Nelson, with its own court clerk and its own city prosecutor. A city of about 6,913 people running both is a real civic fact rather than a flourish.
The North View Fire District, whose own mission statement names its communities as North Ogden, Pleasant View and Harrisville. Its administration is at 315 East 2550 North, North Ogden, UT 84414, on 801-782-8159, and it runs stations 21 and 22. Neither station is inside Harrisville. That is stated as a plain fact about where the buildings are, from the district's own published information, and not as an assessment of anything. The city itself runs no fire service and its directory lists none.
No branch is inside the city. The nearest is the Weber County Library System north branch at 475 East 2600 North, on 801-337-2650, and a parcel test against the state's municipal boundary layer puts that building inside North Ogden. The county system also runs a main library and other branches in Ogden, Huntsville and Roy. Harrisville City publishes no library of its own on any page reached on 21 August 2026, and library service for a Harrisville address is therefore a county service rather than a city one.
No. Harrisville City publishes no cemetery on its parks pages, its amenities page or anywhere else reached on 21 August 2026, and operates none. What exists instead is the Ben Lomond Cemetery District at 526 East 2850 North, North Ogden, on 801-782-5032, whose own definition of its in district area is North Ogden, Pleasant View and northern parts of Harrisville. The district publishes no line on a map for what northern parts means, so part of this city is inside it and part is not, and an address near the middle is a phone call rather than a lookup.
Three, on a point test of the Utah State Board of Education school layer for the 2026 school year against the city polygon. Orion Jr High, Weber School District, grades seven to nine, 370 West 2000 North, 974 students, and the only one publishing a Harrisville postal city. Majestic School, Weber School District, preschool to grade six, 425 West 2550 North, 660 students, publishing an Ogden address. Greenwood Charter School, kindergarten to grade eight, 840 North Highway 89, 360 students, which is its own charter authority rather than a Weber District school. This site does not rate schools and the district runs the boundary tool.
No, it is inside Pleasant View on a point test against the state's municipal boundary layer, at 430 West Weber High Drive on an Ogden postal address, grades ten to twelve, with 1,915 students in the 2026 school year. It does serve this area, and this site's practical city guide says it serves the area rather than claiming a location, which is the correct way round. Pioneer School is likewise not in Harrisville: it sits inside Marriott-Slaterville, which matters because Harrisville City names Pioneer Elementary School as its partner in the Fall Festival.
The one figure this page prints is a census statistic rather than a market number. U.S. Census American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates, table B25077, put the median value of owner occupied housing units in Harrisville city at $397,600, with a margin of error of plus or minus $24,541, which is about six percent of the estimate in a city this size. That is a survey of what owners report their homes are worth, not a record of what anything sold for. What sold, for how much, and what the market is doing this month is the subject of this site's practical Harrisville city guide instead.
Monday to Thursday from eight in the morning until five, and Friday from eight until noon, excluding holidays, at 363 West Independence Blvd on 801-782-4100. The Friday half day is a real and easily missed detail for anybody planning to sort a utility, a permit or a licence at the end of a week. The council meets in the evening and the planning commission meets at seven in the evening on the first Wednesday, both at the same building, and the city posts its meetings on the state's public notice site.
Very little, with one large exception. The county's roll, current as of 29 October 2025, records 2,866 parcels inside about 2.99 square miles under roughly two hundred plat names, and the building record shows the city constructing 83 to 103 structures a year from 2015 to 2018, falling to 39 by 2022 and recovering to 91 in 2024. The exception is a single unplatted parcel of 55.86 acres at 1800 North Highway 89, the largest in the city, with one small building of 1973 on it. No public body publishes a plan for it, so this page states none.
One switchboard, five bodies and two questions no listing in this city can answer.
The practical version of a Harrisville move is a short list, and it is a list worth working through before an offer rather than after. Settle which city the property is actually in from the county's parcel record, because the postcode and the mailing address both say Ogden and both are shared with the neighbours. Settle which of the two secondary irrigation providers serves the parcel, in writing, because nobody publishes a boundary between them. Ring the burial district about the address if that matters to your household, because it covers part of this city and draws no line. And look hard at what sits near the 55.86 acres at 1800 North Highway 89, because it is the largest parcel in the city and nobody official has published a word about its future. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who can pull the parcel and put the right questions in the contract, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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