Marriott-Slaterville, two farm towns that became one city and kept the fields

About 2,290 people, on the U.S. Census estimate for 2025. The 2020 census count is restated two different ways by two state bodies, as 2,135 and as 2,148, and neither of those bodies is the Census Bureau itself. Use the Census 2025 estimate when you need one number, and label it. The five year survey figure of 1,979 measures a five year average rather than a year and should not be set beside the other three.

It sits in Weber County immediately west of Ogden, on the bottomland between the city and the Weber River. The Census Bureau's 2024 figures give 7.4 square miles of land and 7.6 square miles including water, which works out at roughly three hundred residents a square mile. The city offices are at 1570 West 400 North on 801-627-1919, and the elevation at that address is 4,247 feet on the United States Geological Survey's one meter elevation service. The whole built area sits within about thirty feet of that.

Because the ZIP code and the street grid are both Ogden's and neither is a city limit. Every address in this city comes back as 84404 with the word Ogden on it, including the city offices themselves, and every one of those points still falls inside the Marriott-Slaterville municipal boundary on the state's own layer. It runs the other way as well: the Golden Spike Event Center at 1000 North 1200 West is Ogden's parcel even though the street corner beside it falls inside this city. Ask for the parcel and the tax area rather than the ZIP code.

Four park sites plus a river trailhead and the city offices, which the city also rents. They are City Hall Park at 1570 West 400 North, Marriott Park at 1025 South 1200 West, Slaterville Park at 250 North 2200 West, Heritage Park at 1359 West 700 South, and River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street. Heritage Park is a soccer field and nothing else. Slaterville Park is the largest of them, and the city has an improvement project out for bids there, so check the city's page for the current state of its amenities before you plan around it.

Open ground, mostly. The city puts the phrase Utah's Open Space City at the top of every page it publishes, and the land backs it up: 7.4 square miles of hay, pasture and river bottom carrying about 2,290 residents, which is roughly three hundred people to the square mile. It is also known, at least locally, for a hyphen that records a merger, for a Fourth of July that fills one park from seven in the morning, and for a stretch of 12th Street where the traffic falls by a factor of four in a few miles.

Five public schools, which is more than most people expect from a city of this size. Pioneer Elementary sits at 250 North 1600 West. Venture Academy, a charter serving kindergarten to grade twelve, sits at 495 North 1500 West. Weber Innovation High School at 1007 West 12th Street, Two Rivers High at 955 West 12th Street and Horizon Academy at the same 12th Street address are all Weber School District programs. Between them the state's October 2025 count records 1,677 pupils, in a city of about 2,290 residents. This site does not rate schools.

Yes, and the city publishes exactly one way onto it: River Cove Trail Head at 903 West 17th Street, with trailhead parking, a bike trail and a walking track in the city's own amenity list. The state maps a paved, existing, multiuse path through the city under the Weber River Parkway name, and part of the 21st Street Pond Loop crosses onto city ground at the eastern end. The city itself never names the trail anywhere, and no restroom is listed at the trailhead, so arrive ready.

In 1999, which is the year and the whole of what the city itself publishes about it. Its own history page describes a run from original settlement as separate communities in the 1850s to incorporation in 1999, and prints no day, no settler names and no account of the vote. Longer versions circulate, including an exact date and a story about how the Slaterville name was chosen, and none of them is on a page the city stands behind, so none of them appears here either.

No city police department is published anywhere on the city's own site, which lists public safety as a function of administrative services rather than as a department with officers. Fire cover comes from the Weber Fire District, which Weber County's material describes as serving all unincorporated county ground plus Hooper, West Haven, Marriott-Slaterville, Farr West and Huntsville. Confirm the current arrangement with the city on 801-627-1919 before you rely on it, because the city does not print the answer itself.