Moving here Marriott-Slaterville
Four districts, one bill, five schools and a counter that closes on Friday
Moving to Marriott-Slaterville.
This city was built in 1999 to be as small a city as a city can be, and everything a household meets here follows from that. The drinking water comes from a district that also bills the garbage, the recycling, the storm water and the sewer on one statement. The irrigation water comes from a different district. There are five public schools inside the line and no city police department. The counter closes on Friday. Here is who serves what, what the property record actually says, and the four questions worth answering before an offer.
The short answer
An address in Marriott-Slaterville is served by districts rather than by a city hall with a large staff. Bona Vista Water Improvement District supplies the drinking water and, in the district's own words, bills the city's other lines alongside it so residents pay one bill a month rather than two or more. Central Weber Sewer Improvement District takes the sewer. The Pioneer Special Service District handles secondary irrigation water. The city runs its own storm water program and publishes a flood plain notice. Weber School District runs the schools, and five public schools sit inside the city line. There is no city police department published anywhere on the city's own pages. Checked August 2026.
The live question
Who do you actually call when something here goes wrong?
Start with the water district, because in this city it is the utility that touches the most lines. Bona Vista Water Improvement District, at 2020 West 1300 North in Farr West on 801-621-0474, states plainly that it provides drinking water to residents inside its boundaries, which include Plain City, Farr West, Harrisville and Marriott-Slaterville. It also says the cities have contracted with it to bill for services they offer their residents, such as garbage, recycling and storm water, so that residents pay a single bill each month instead of two or more. One envelope, four things.
One clarification the district makes itself and that people get wrong: it provides drinking water, not secondary water. Pressurised irrigation is the Pioneer Special Service District, which the city names under its own departments. If the pasture is dry, that is a different phone number from the one on the water bill.
For everything municipal, the number is 801-627-1919 and the extensions are published in the city's staff directory: the city clerk on 202, the community service director on 203, the mayor on 204, the city administrator on 205, community development on 206, the city recorder and historian on 207 and the finance officer on 211. In a city of 2,257 people that directory is not a formality; ringing the right extension is genuinely faster than any form.
The one to ask about before you need it is policing. The city lists public safety as a function of administrative services and names no police department of its own anywhere on its site, and it does not publish who provides the service instead. Fire cover comes from the Weber Fire District, which Weber County's own material describes as serving all unincorporated county ground plus Hooper, West Haven, Marriott-Slaterville, Farr West and Huntsville. Confirm both with the city on 801-627-1919 rather than assuming. Checked August 2026.
The city publishes no police department and does not name the agency that provides one, so ask before you need the answer. Marriott-Slaterville's own departments page lists public safety as a function of administrative services and names no municipal police force, no station and no chief, and no page on the city's site names the agency that covers the city instead. Fire cover comes from the Weber Fire District, which Weber County describes as serving all unincorporated county ground plus Hooper, West Haven, Marriott-Slaterville, Farr West and Huntsville. Neither of these is a reason to worry and both are reasons to ask. One call to 801-627-1919 before an offer settles who answers a non emergency call at your address, and it is a better question than any statistic.
Who serves what
Four districts, one city and a single bill that covers most of it.
This is the table to keep. Marriott-Slaterville was built in 1999 as a deliberately small city, and the practical consequence is that most of what a household consumes comes from a special district rather than from the municipality. Every row below names the body that publishes it.
| What | Who provides it | How you meet it |
|---|---|---|
| Drinking water | Bona Vista Water Improvement District, Farr West, on 801-621-0474 | The monthly bill, which also carries the city billed lines |
| Garbage, recycling and storm water | The city, billed through Bona Vista | Same bill. The district says the arrangement exists so residents pay once rather than twice |
| Sewer | Central Weber Sewer Improvement District | A line on the same Bona Vista bill |
| Secondary irrigation water | Pioneer Special Service District | Separate. The water district states plainly that it does not supply secondary water |
| Storm water program | The city itself, with its own plan and a flood plain notice | Public works, through the city offices on 801-627-1919 |
| Fire | Weber Fire District, on Weber County's description of its coverage | Confirm at the city or the district before you rely on it |
| Schools | Weber School District, not Ogden City District | Five public schools sit inside the city line |
Read at Bona Vista Water Improvement District's own service and billing material and at the city's departments and public works pages on 27 August 2026. No utility rate appears on this page; the amounts are on the district's own sheet and they change.
Two things follow from that table and both are worth having straight before an offer. The first is that a light municipal tax line and a light bill are not the same thing. This city was designed to keep the municipal side small, and the services still have to be paid for, so they arrive as district fees rather than as a city levy. Budget the ledger rather than the headline.
The second is that a question about your address usually has a specific owner. Water pressure is the water district. A dry pasture is the irrigation district. A blocked storm drain is the city's own public works. A sewer line is Central Weber. Nobody hands a new arrival that list, and having it is worth an afternoon.
The schools
Five inside the line, and more pupils than the city has residents.
Names, addresses, grade spans and the state's October 2025 counts. This site does not rate schools; the district runs the boundary tool and the state publishes the numbers.
| The school | Grades and district | October 2025 count |
|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Elementary, 250 North 1600 West | Kindergarten to grade 6, Weber School District | 363 on the October 2025 count |
| Venture Academy, 495 North 1500 West | Kindergarten to grade 12, its own charter | 784 |
| Weber Innovation High School, 1007 West 12th Street | Grades 6 to 12, Weber School District | 318 |
| Two Rivers High, 955 West 12th Street | Grades 7 to 12, Weber School District | 155 |
| Horizon Academy, 955 West 12th Street | Grades 6 to 12, Weber School District | 57 |
From the Utah State Board of Education's October 2025 count, with every address checked against the city line. Three of the five sit on one block of 12th Street. Weber School District's own material gives a different, undated figure of approximately 550 for the elementary; the October count is the dated one, and it is the one used here.
The arithmetic is the striking part. Those five schools hold 1,677 pupils between them, in a city with about 2,257 residents. Three Weber District secondary programs sit on one block of 12th Street, a kindergarten to grade twelve charter of 784 sits off 1500 West, and the elementary sits on 250 North. Nothing about that is visible from the road, and it is the single most surprising civic fact about this place.
It is also worth stating plainly, because most descriptions of this city name two schools and there are five. Weber Innovation High, Two Rivers High and Horizon Academy are the three that get left out, and all three stand inside the city line despite printing Ogden addresses on their own paperwork.
If school assignment matters to a purchase, the district's boundary tool is the next step rather than any page, because an address here can feed schools in Farr West and Plain City for the later years and the assignments are the district's to publish. Ask the district, and ask it about the specific address rather than about the city.
The land, and what the record says about it
Roughly 710 households, a median build year of 1993, and farms that were here first.
The property record here is small and it is worth reading carefully rather than quickly. The Census Bureau's 2020-2024 five year survey counts about 736 housing units and roughly 710 households in the city, and puts the median year a structure was built at 1993. The median value of owner occupied units on the same release, table B25077, is $593,100, with a margin of error of about $49,528. That figure is the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimate of median owner occupied value and it is the only price figure on this companion.
The build year is the one that reframes the place. A city that talks about 1850s settlements and open space is, in its housing, an early nineties city. What that means on the ground is brick and stucco houses on generous lots rather than either pioneer cottages or new subdivision, and it means the ordinary maintenance questions of a house in its early thirties: roof, furnace, water heater, and whatever the previous owner did to the outbuildings.
The land itself is the product and the neighbours are part of it. Working agriculture is what this city was designed to keep, so equipment on the road, animals over the fence and field operations at unsociable hours are the arrangement rather than the exception. Anyone weighing an acre lot here should drive it at harvest as well as on a Sunday afternoon, and should ask what the neighbouring parcel is zoned for as well as what it currently grows.
And then there is the water, in both senses. Confirm which irrigation water serves the parcel and how it is billed, because that is a separate district from the one on the drinking water bill. And on any ground running toward the Weber, pull the current federal flood map, ask the city about its flood plain notice and its overlay, and treat an elevation certificate as money well spent. The city runs its own storm water program and publishes the notice; the parcel specific answer is a conversation with the city rather than a page.
The property record
736
housing units in the city on the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 five year survey
710
households on the same release, which is what makes this one of the thinnest markets in the county
1993
median year a structure was built here, on the same survey, give or take four years
7.4 sq mi
of land for all of it, which is roughly three hundred residents a square mile
The counter
Short weekday hours, closed Friday, and most things done in person.
The city offices at 1570 West 400 North are the whole municipal estate, and they are also the hall, the park booking desk and the venue for half the city's calendar. The building keeps weekday hours and is closed on Friday, which is the single most useful administrative fact about this city and the one that catches new arrivals with a permit question on a Friday afternoon.
Several things here are counter jobs rather than online ones. Park and bowery reservations are made in person, in a window that runs from 15 April to 15 October. The rental agreement and the rules have to be read and the form completed before a booking is finalised. Municipal code lives on a separate hosted portal rather than on the city's own site, so a code question is usually faster asked than searched.
None of that is a complaint. A city of 2,257 people running its own storm water program, publishing its facilities with hours and terms, keeping a monthly newsletter and a monthly senior calendar, and answering a phone with seven named extensions is doing more than its size suggests. It just does it between Monday and Thursday, at a counter, and knowing that saves a wasted trip.
Living with it
Land, quiet and a short drive, in exchange for doing without four things.
The honest summary of an address here is a trade, and both sides of it are easy to name. What you get is land: acre lots, pasture, open fields and a river bottom, on a valley floor with about thirty feet of relief across the whole built area, six miles from a mid sized city. What you also get is a small city that publishes its rules plainly and answers its phone.
What you do without is a list of four. No swimming pool, no recreation center, no library branch and no city police department inside the limits. Add to that no fixed route bus service published either way, one closed park, and a counter that shuts on Friday. Every one of those has an answer within fifteen minutes, and none of them is inside the city.
The questions that actually decide a purchase here are narrower than the list above. Which end of 12th Street the parcel sits on, because the traffic changes by a factor of four across the city. Whether the ground runs toward the river, because the flood map and the elevation certificate live there. What the zoning allows and what the neighbour is farming. And which districts bill the address. The practical city guide carries the market and the purchase side; the page on the roads carries the corridor.
The city was built in 1999 to be as small as a city can be. Everything that follows from that, the districts, the single bill, the counter and the Friday closure, is the design working rather than the design failing.
What this page deliberately leaves out
- Prices, the value ladder, cost of living and current market conditions, which belong to the practical city guide rather than to a companion. The one survey figure above is labelled for exactly what it is.
- A rented household count. The one survey estimate available for it is too rough to be worth printing, and a wrong number here would mislead somebody weighing a purchase.
- A property tax rate. The county parcel record shows several different tax areas inside this city, so there is no single figure to quote, and the city guide handles the household side of it.
- Anything about who works at the industrial buildings on or near 12th Street. The buildings and their traffic are describable and the people in them are not this site's subject.
Keep reading
Four more pages on this city, and the question each one answers.
The list
The 5 best things to do
A river path, two playgrounds, an evening market and an archive you can read at home.
Read the guideThe river
The Weber River and River Cove
One address, one car park, four names for the same trail, and no restroom for miles.
Read the guideThe year
The year in Marriott-Slaterville
A race at seven, a parade at half past ten, and a market that moved to Friday evenings.
Read the guideThe roads
12th Street and the roads
Thirty six thousand vehicles at one end, eight thousand at the other, and two funded jobs.
Read the guideThe whole set
Marriott-Slaterville, in full
Seven square miles, four park sites, one river access and five schools, on a city of 2,257.
Open the companionQuick answers
Moving here, answered.
Bona Vista Water Improvement District, at 2020 West 1300 North in Farr West on 801-621-0474, supplies the drinking water. The district states that its boundaries take in Plain City, Farr West, Harrisville and Marriott-Slaterville, and that the cities have contracted with it to bill for services they offer their residents, such as garbage, recycling and storm water, so that residents pay a single bill each month instead of two or more. The district is also explicit that it provides drinking water and not secondary water.
The Pioneer Special Service District, which the city names under its own departments. This matters because the drinking water district says plainly that it does not supply secondary water, so pressurised irrigation is a separate provider with a separate phone number. Confirm which irrigation water serves a specific parcel and how it is billed before you buy, because on acre lots and pasture ground that answer is part of what the land is worth and it is not something a listing reliably carries.
The city publishes none. Its own departments page lists public safety as a function of administrative services and names no municipal police force, no station and no chief, and no page on the city's site names the agency covering the city instead. That is not a reason to worry and it is a reason to ask, so ring 801-627-1919 before an offer and find out who answers a non emergency call at the address. Fire cover is described in Weber County material as coming from the Weber Fire District.
Weber School District, the county district, rather than Ogden City School District, which is a distinction worth knowing in a city that borders Ogden and shares its postcode. Five public schools sit inside the city line: Pioneer Elementary on 250 North, Venture Academy off 1500 West, and Weber Innovation High, Two Rivers High and Horizon Academy on 12th Street. For assignments beyond the elementary years, use the district's own boundary tool and ask about the specific address rather than about the city.
Five public schools, holding 1,677 pupils between them on the state's October 2025 count, in a city of about 2,257 residents. Three of the five are Weber School District secondary programs on one block of 12th Street: Weber Innovation High with 318, Two Rivers High with 155 and Horizon Academy with 57. Venture Academy, a kindergarten to grade twelve charter, records 784, and Pioneer Elementary records 363. All five print Ogden addresses on their own paperwork and all five sit inside the city boundary.
The American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimate of median value for owner occupied units, table B25077, is $593,100, with a margin of error of about $49,528. That is a five year pooled survey estimate for a very small city rather than a current sale price, and in a place with roughly 710 households a handful of transactions move every statistic. For what is actually selling and what it is selling for, the practical Marriott-Slaterville city guide on this site is the right page.
The median year a structure was built here is 1993, on the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 five year survey, give or take about four years. That is a useful corrective to the pioneer framing the city's own history invites: this is 1850s farm ground with mostly early nineties houses on it. Practically, it means the ordinary maintenance questions of a house in its early thirties, and it means outbuildings and pasture infrastructure that may be considerably older than the house in front of them.
The city offices at 1570 West 400 North keep weekday hours Monday to Thursday and are closed on Friday, on the billing material published by the water district that serves the city. That is the single most useful administrative fact here, because several things are counter jobs rather than online ones: park and bowery reservations are made in person, between 15 April and 15 October, and a booking is not finalised until the fee is paid, the rules read and the form completed. The number is 801-627-1919.
On any ground running toward the Weber River, yes, and it is the first item rather than the last. The city runs its own storm water program and publishes a flood plain notice on its public works pages, and the federal flood maps for Weber County have been under revision. Pull the current federal map for the specific parcel, ask the city about its flood plain notice and any overlay on the address, get a flood insurance quote during due diligence, and treat an elevation certificate as money well spent.
A small city by design, and a short list of questions before an offer.
Marriott-Slaterville does not ask a household many questions, but the ones it asks are specific. Which end of 12th Street the parcel sits on, because the traffic across this city changes by a factor of four and the two ends are different places to live. Whether the ground runs toward the river, because that is where the federal flood map, the city's own flood plain notice and an elevation certificate all matter. What the zoning tier allows and what the neighbouring parcel is farming, because working agriculture here is the plan rather than the leftovers. And which special districts bill the address, because in a city with a deliberately small municipal side the utilities arrive as fees. 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 research and the financing side.
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