City Marriott-Slaterville, Weber County
About 2,257 residents, four park sites, one river car park and five public schools on seven square miles
Marriott-Slaterville, two farm towns that became one city and kept the fields.
Marriott and Slaterville sat separately on the bottomland west of Ogden from the 1850s until 1999, when they voted themselves into one city and put the words Open Space City at the top of every page they have published since. What that buys is 7.4 square miles of hay, pasture and river bottom holding about 2,257 people, four free park sites, one car park on the Weber River, and a state highway that carries 36,000 vehicles at one end of town and 8,300 at the other. Five pages on the city itself, and an honest handover to the one region subject that reaches its ground.
The short answer
Marriott-Slaterville is a city of about 2,257 people spread over 7.4 square miles of farm ground and river bottom immediately west of Ogden, and the fastest way to understand it is that the small things are the city's and the large things are not. It publishes four park sites and one river trailhead, all of them free. It holds five public schools inside the line, with more than 1,600 pupils enrolled in a city of fewer than 2,300 residents. Its one state highway carries 36,000 vehicles where it leaves Ogden and 8,300 a few miles west, which is the whole story of the place in two numbers. Two settlements that had been separate since the 1850s voted themselves into one city in 1999, and the city has called itself Utah's Open Space City on every page it has published since. Checked August 2026.
The live question
Why does every address here come back as Ogden?
Because the postcode is Ogden's and the street grid is Ogden's, and neither of them is a city limit. Type any Marriott-Slaterville address into a national mapping service and it will hand you back 84404 with the word OGDEN in capitals. The city offices do it. The parks do it. The trailhead at 903 West 17th Street comes back as 903 W 17th St, Ogden. Every one of those points is nonetheless inside Marriott-Slaterville, on the boundary the state itself certifies. The mail says one thing and the jurisdiction says another, and here the mail is wrong.
It runs the other way too, which is the part that catches people. The Golden Spike Event Center at 1000 North 1200 West is Ogden's ground by parcel, even though the street corner two hundred meters away falls inside this city, and the fairgrounds are not Marriott-Slaterville's in any sense that matters to a tax bill or a building permit. Farr West begins about a third of a mile further north. Twelfth Street itself is the city line for a stretch, with Marriott-Slaterville on the north kerb and Ogden on the south.
The practical version, and it is worth carrying into any search here: an address in this city will read Ogden on a delivery label, on a school registration form and on half the listings you find, and none of that tells you which government collects the tax, issues the permit or answers the phone about the ditch. Ask for the parcel and the tax area, not the postcode. Checked August 2026.
The same confusion is why the schools surprise people. Three Weber District secondary programs sit on one block of 12th Street here, a K to 12 charter of 784 sits off 1500 West, and the elementary sits on 250 North. Every one of them prints an Ogden address on its own paperwork and every one of them stands inside this city. The page on moving here lists all five with their grade spans and the state's October 2025 counts.
Start here
Two towns, one hyphen, and a city that kept the fields on purpose.
Marriott and Slaterville were two farm settlements on the bottomland west of Ogden, both rooted in the 1850s, and they stayed separate for a century and a half. The city says the whole of it in one sentence: it has a history running from original settlement as separate communities in the 1850s to incorporation in 1999. That is genuinely all the city publishes about its own founding, and it is worth knowing before you go looking, because the longer versions in circulation, the drawing of lots for the Slaterville name and the hotel family connection, are not on any page the city stands behind.
What the city does stand behind is the phrase it puts at the top of every page it owns: Utah's Open Space City. That is not decoration. The place is 7.4 square miles for 2,257 people, which works out to roughly three hundred residents a square mile, and the land in between is hay, pasture and river bottom rather than subdivision. The median home here was built in 1993 on the Census Bureau's five year survey, which is the honest counterweight to the pioneer framing: this is farm ground with early nineties houses on it, not a preserved village.
The other half of the city is the road. Twelfth Street is State Route 39, it runs the width of the place, and the transport department counts 36,000 vehicles a day where it crosses out of Ogden and 8,300 a few miles west where the signs start calling it 1200 South. Nothing else about this city changes that fast over that short a distance. The freight yards, the event center and the airport that people associate with the address all belong to Ogden. What belongs to Marriott-Slaterville is the quiet end of the same road and the fields either side of it.
Marriott-Slaterville at a glance
2,257
residents at the state's 1 July 2025 estimate, on a 2020 census count published two ways, as 2,135 and as 2,148
7.4 sq mi
of land, 7.6 with water on the Census Bureau's 2024 figures, which is roughly three hundred people a square mile
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public schools inside the city line, holding more than 1,600 pupils between them on the state's October 2025 count
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city park sites plus one river trailhead, every one of them free to walk into and one of them closed for construction
The column
From two settlements in the 1850s to twenty three and a half million dollars of approved roadwork.
Every row names the body that published it. Where the city publishes only a year, the row says only a year, and where two figures exist for one thing, both are here with their sources. Nothing in this column comes from anywhere but the body that issued it.
| When | What happened | Who publishes it | Why it still matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 1850s | Marriott and Slaterville are settled as separate communities on the bottomland west of Ogden | Marriott-Slaterville City's history page | The city gives the decade and stops. It prints no settler names, no founding date and no naming story, so none appears here either |
| 1999 | The two communities become one city | Marriott-Slaterville City | The hyphen is the merger. The city publishes the year without the day, and the day in wide circulation is not on any page the city stands behind |
| 2009 | The city publishes a secondary irrigation feasibility study | Marriott-Slaterville City documents page | A planning study from seventeen years ago is not a statement of what serves a parcel today. Ask the Pioneer Special Service District about a specific address |
| 2010 | Ordinance 2010-05, Cooperative Pathways, adopts the county trail plan into city law, and the city publishes the ordinance itself | Marriott-Slaterville City | The city's trail exists in law before it exists on any city map. It is still the only trail document the city has ever published |
| 2021 | A storm water management plan joins the documents page, alongside public works outreach material and a flood plain notice | Marriott-Slaterville City public works | The city runs its own storm water program rather than buying it, and its flood notice is the reason river ground here needs a map check before an offer |
| 27 June 2025 | The Utah Transportation Commission approves $21,000,000 to reconstruct and widen State Route 39 from 4700 West to State Route 126, and $2,600,000 at State Route 126 and 250 North | Utah Transportation Commission minutes | Twenty three and a half million dollars of state money aimed at two corners of a city of 2,257. Both limits differ from what the city guide on this site printed |
| 2025-26 school year | Five public schools operate inside the city line with 1,677 pupils enrolled between them | Utah State Board of Education, October 2025 count | More pupils than residents, by a wide margin, in a city most people drive through without noticing a school |
| 2026 season | The city takes park and bowery bookings from 15 April to 15 October, posts park hours of 9 in the morning to 9 at night, and takes reservations in person at the counter | Marriott-Slaterville City parks and recreation page | The booking window and the counter are the two facts that decide whether a plan here works. Neither is on any listings site |
| 2026 | The garden market runs on Friday evenings at the city offices, 6 to 8 | Marriott-Slaterville City calendar | The market moved. An older city page still shows a Saturday morning season from an earlier year, and the calendar is the one to trust |
| August 2026 | Slaterville Park is posted closed for construction with no reopening date, and drops off the city's main facilities list | Marriott-Slaterville City facility page | The city's biggest amenity list belongs to the park you currently cannot use, which changes every plan involving the west end of town |
Every body above was read on 27 August 2026 except the population estimate, which is the Utah Population Committee's release for 1 July 2025, and the school counts, which are the state board's October 2025 file. What a house here is worth this month belongs to this site's practical Marriott-Slaterville city guide rather than to a companion.
Two things fall out of that column. The first is that this city's public record lives in two places at once. There is a current site on a .gov address with the facilities, the hours, the booking rules, the staff directory and a live calendar, and there is an older site still serving pages that have not been refreshed in years. The current one is right and the old one is where the stale Independence Day program and the stale market season still sit. If a date you found does not match the calendar, the calendar wins. The page on the year here works through all of it.
The second is that the money and the pupils both arrived without much fanfare. Twenty three and a half million dollars of approved state road money and 1,677 school places is a lot of public investment for a city this size, and none of it is visible from a listing. What is visible is a hay field, a two lane road and a car park by the river. The page on the roads takes the corridor apart, and the page on moving here sets out who runs what.
The region
One of the six Weber and Morgan subjects reaches this city, and the other five are drives.
Six subjects belong to the whole region rather than to any one city on it, so they are written once and pointed at from everywhere. Marriott-Slaterville has ground on precisely one, the rivers, and what it holds is the flat, quiet, western end that nobody photographs. The other five start somewhere else and are reached from here by car.
The corridor
The Ogden and Weber river parkways
The whole route, its four owners and its two mileages, from this city's end to the canyon mouth.
Read the guideThis city's end
The Weber River and River Cove
One address, one car park, a paved path in both directions and four names for the same trail.
Read the guideAll six
The Weber and Morgan hub
Fourteen cities, two counties and the six subjects they share, gathered on one page.
The region hubFive of the six start outside the city line, and the honest word for each of them is a drive. Everything with a slope on it is somewhere else. The nearest canyon mouth is on the far side of Ogden, which puts the canyon at the end of a cross town drive rather than at the end of a street here. Snowbasin and Powder Mountain sit above that canyon or over the pass into the next valley, and Pineview and Causey lie behind the dam at the top of it, on a different river system from the one at the bottom of this city. The historic main street is a short run east into downtown, and worth the trip. Ben Lomond and the bench trails are reached from streets in three other towns. None of that is a complaint; it is what living on a valley floor buys you, which is flat ground and a short drive to everything vertical.
If you only have one morning
Start at the river, finish at the playground, and be home by lunch.
First thing
The car park at River Cove
One address, 903 West 17th Street, and a paved multiuse path running both ways from it. Bring water; there is no tap and no restroom here.
The river pageThen
East toward the ponds
Ride or walk east and the paved path carries you toward the pond loop at the confluence, part of which is on this city's ground.
The ranked listMid morning
City Hall Park
The playground and walking track beside the city offices, and the one park where the restrooms are not held back for a booking.
The ranked listOr instead
Come on a Friday
The garden market has been running Friday evenings at the city offices this year, which is the one hour a week this city has a town square.
The year hereLiving with it
A city with no police department of its own, one water bill for four services, and a park you book at a counter.
An address here asks a short list of questions and almost none of them is about scenery. How close the parcel sits to 12th Street, because the traffic on that road changes by a factor of four across the city and the difference between the two ends is most of what you are buying. Whether the ground runs down toward the river, because the city publishes a flood plain notice and the federal maps for Weber County have been under revision. What the parcel is zoned for and what operates on the parcel next to it, because working agriculture is the neighbour here by design rather than by accident. And which of the special districts bill the address, because in this city the utilities arrive as fees rather than as a municipal tax line.
What is genuinely good is easy to name. The land is the product: acre lots, pasture and open fields fifteen minutes from a mid sized city's restaurants, hospital and theatre calendar. The city runs a real calendar for its size, with a Fourth of July that fills one park from seven in the morning, an egg hunt in spring, a December breakfast, a garden market and a senior program with its own monthly sheet. Four park sites and a river car park are free and none of them is ever crowded. And the whole city is small enough that the people who answer the phone at 801-627-1919 can tell you the actual answer, which is not true of most places on the Wasatch Front.
What is genuinely hard is equally plain. There is no library branch, no swimming pool, no recreation center and no city police department inside the limits. The city offices keep short weekday hours and a bowery booking has to be made in person at that counter. The biggest park is closed for construction. Fixed route bus service to this city was not published either way by the transit authority when this was written, so plan on driving. And the river ground that makes this city beautiful is the ground that needs the most homework before an offer. The page on moving here is the one to read first, because it is the page about who to call for what.
Three of the places people attach to this city are on somebody else's ground, and the city's biggest park is shut. The Golden Spike Event Center is Ogden's parcel, and the city line runs immediately west and north of it, so nothing at the fairgrounds is in Marriott-Slaterville even though the street corner beside it is. Fort Buenaventura is Ogden's too, and it is a Weber County park about four miles from the city offices. The Ogden Nature Center, at about a mile and a half the closest large outdoor destination to this city, is also Ogden's. And Slaterville Park, the site with the longest amenity list the city publishes, carries a construction closure on its own facility page with no reopening date attached, read on 27 August 2026. The ranked list has the rest.
A city that publishes its park hours, its booking season and the fact that its restrooms open only for a reservation is telling you exactly how it works. Read the facility page, not the review.
The Marriott-Slaterville companion
Five pages, and every one of them rests on something a public body actually published.
Everything The Local has written about this city: the five things worth doing inside the line, the city's own reach of the Weber River and the one car park that reaches it, four park sites with their hours and the counter you book them at, a calendar that runs from an egg hunt to a December breakfast, a state highway carrying four times as much traffic at one end as the other with two funded projects aimed at it, and what an address here actually asks of a household.
Quick answers
Marriott-Slaterville, answered.
About 2,257 people, on the Utah Population Committee's estimate for 1 July 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 July 2025 state 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 postcode 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 postcode.
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 ground and nothing else. Slaterville Park carries a construction closure on its own facility page with no reopening date, read on 27 August 2026, so 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 2,257 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 2,257 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.
Five pages on a city that kept its fields and got a highway anyway.
Marriott-Slaterville asks a short list of questions and a specific one. How much of 12th Street you actually want at the end of the driveway, because the traffic on that road falls by a factor of four across the city and the two ends are different places to live. Whether the parcel runs down toward the river, because the city publishes a flood plain notice and the federal maps for this county have been under revision. What the zoning allows and what the neighbouring parcel is farming, because working agriculture here is the plan rather than the leftovers. Which special districts bill the address, because the utilities arrive as fees rather than as a municipal tax line. And whether a household needs a pool, a library branch or a recreation center, because this city has none of the three and each answer is in a different neighbouring city. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Weber and Morgan partner agent who works this side of the valley, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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