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Weber County, Utah
Map of Utah highlighting Weber County
Location in the state of Utah
Map of the U.S
Utah's location in the U.S.
Founded 1852
Seat Ogden
Largest city Ogden
Area
 - Total
 - Land
 - Water

659 sq mi (1,705 km²)
576 sq mi (1,491 km²)
84 sq mi (217 km²), 12.73%
Population
 - (2020)
 - Density

262,223
298/sq mi (115/km²)
Time zone Mountain: UTC-7/-6
Website http://www.co.weber.ut.us/
Footnotes: Named for the Weber River

Weber County (play /ˈwbər/) is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a stretch of the Wasatch Front, part of the eastern shores of Great Salt Lake, and much of the rugged Wasatch Mountains. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,223. Its county seat and largest city is Ogden.

Weber State University, founded in 1889, is located in Ogden.

The county was formed[1] on March 3, 1852 and named after the Weber River, which in turn was named for John Henry Weber (1779–1859), a fur trapper and trader in the area in the mid-1820s. Historically Weber County stretched from the California, Oregon, Utah Territory border in the north west, to the current boundary in the south east.[2] As Nevada and the State of Utah evolved, Weber County shrunk to its current size.

Weber County is part of the OgdenClearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City–Ogden–Clearfield Combined Statistical Area.

Geography[]

The county extends from high in the Wasatch Range in the east into a portion of the Great Salt Lake to the west. The Weber and Ogden rivers and their tributaries run through its valleys. The Weber County Surveyor's office divides the county into two regions, the "Lower Valley" and the "Upper Valley", divided by the ridge of the Wasatch front range running north-south through the county. The "Lower Valley" is the more populous part of the county and is adjacent to the Great Salt Lake. The "Upper Valley" is the eastern part of the county and consists mostly of the Ogden Valley, the watershed of the Ogden River.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 659 square miles (1708 km²), of which, 576 square miles (1491 km²) of it is land and 217 km² (84 sq mi or 12.73%) is water.

Adjacent counties[]

National protected area[]

  • Cache National Forest (part)

Demographics[]

Historical populations
Census Pop.
1850 1,186
1860 8,675 631.5%
1870 7,858 −9.4%
1880 12,344 57.1%
1890 22,723 84.1%
1900 25,239 11.1%
1910 35,179 39.4%
1920 43,663 24.1%
1930 52,172 19.5%
1940 56,714 8.7%
1950 83,319 46.9%
1960 110,744 32.9%
1970 126,278 14.0%
1980 144,616 14.5%
1990 158,330 9.5%
2000 196,533 24.1%
2010 231,236 17.7%
sources:[3][4]

As of the census[5] of 2000, there are 196,533 people in the county, organized into 65,698 households and 49,536 families. The population density is 342 people per square mile (132/km²). There are 70,454 housing units at an average density of 122 per square mile (47/km²). The racial makeup of the county is 87.69% White, 1.40% Black or African American, 1.28% Asian, 0.77% Native American, 0.16% Pacific Islander, 6.59% from other races, and 2.12% from two or more races. 12.65% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

By 2005 80.4% of the population was non-Hispanic whites. 1.5% was African-Americans while 0.9% was Native American. Asians were 1.4% of the population. Latinos were 15.2% of the county population.

There are 65,698 households out of which 40.30% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.20% are married couples living together, 10.70% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.60% are non-families. 20.00% of all households are made up of individuals and 7.60% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.95 and the average family size is 3.42.

In the county, the population is spread out with 31% under the age of 18, 12.6% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 18.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 29 years. For every 100 females there are 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 98.2 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $44,014, and the median income for a family is $49,724. Males have a median income of $36,239 versus $24,719 for females. The per capita income for the county is $18,246. 9.30% of the population and 6.90% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 11.10% of those under the age of 18 and 5.50% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

Cities and towns[]

  • Farr West
  • Harrisville
  • Hooper
  • Huntsville
  • Marriott-Slaterville
  • North Ogden
  • Ogden
  • Plain City
  • Pleasant View
  • Riverdale
  • Roy
  • South Ogden
  • Uintah
  • Washington Terrace
  • West Haven

Unincorporated communities[]

These communities are enumerated by the Census Bureau as part of the Ogden Valley CCD, a census county division:

  • Eden
  • Liberty
  • Nordic Valley
  • Reese
  • Taylor
  • Warren
  • West Weber

Education[]

  • Weber State University
  • Ogden-Weber Applied Technology College
  • Ogden City School District
  • Weber School District

Notable residents[]

  • Jefferson Hunt
  • David O. McKay
  • Academy Award winning film director Hal Ashby
  • Rodney Bagley, inventor of the catalytic converter
  • Sculptor Solon Borglum
  • Historian Fawn M. Brodie
  • Inventor John Moses Browning (firearms designer)
  • Basketball player Tom Chambers
  • Historian Bernard DeVoto
  • Actor Byron Foulger
  • WWII photographer J. Malan Heslop
  • Businessman J. Willard Marriott
  • Utah's 8th Governor Herbert B. Maw
  • Basketball player Wataru Misaka
  • Jazz Musician Red Nichols
  • Entertainers "The Osmonds": George, Jr. (Virl), Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie
  • Former United States National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft
  • Game designer Ken St. Andre
  • Utah's 15th Governor Olene S. Walker
  • Actor Gedde Watanabe
  • Basketball player and coach Byron Scott

Politics and Government[]

Like most of Utah, Weber County voters usually vote Republican. In no national election since 1964 has the county selected the Democratic Party candidate. The closest a Democrat has come to winning the county since then was in 1996 when Bill Clinton lost by 10.7 percent to Bob Dole.

State Elected Offices
Position District Name Affiliation First Elected
  Senate 18 F. Ann Millner Republican 2014[6]
  Senate 19 John D. Johnson Republican 2020[7]
  Senate 20 D. Gregg Buxton Republican 2016[8]
  House of Representatives 7 Ryan Wilcox Republican 2020[9]
  House of Representatives 8 Steve Waldrip Republican 2018[10]
  House of Representatives 9 Cal Musselman Republican 2018[11]
  House of Representatives 10 Rosemary Lesser Democrat 2021[12]
  House of Representatives 11 Kelly Miles Republican 2016[13]
  House of Representatives 12 Mike Schultz Republican 2014[14]
  House of Representatives 29 Matthew Gwynn Republican 2020[15]
  Board of Education 1 Jennie Earl Nonpartisan 2018[16]
  Board of Education 2 Scott Hansen Nonpartisan 2018[17]
  Board of Education 4 Brent Strate Republican 2020[18]
United States presidential election results for Weber County, Utah[19]
Year Republican Democratic Third party
No.  % No.  % No.  %
2020 65,949 58.54% 40,695 36.13% 6,005 5.33%
2016 40,235 46.78% 23,131 26.89% 22,640 26.32%
2012 54,224 71.08% 19,841 26.01% 2,225 2.92%
2008 45,885 61.99% 25,666 34.67% 2,471 3.34%
2004 51,199 70.43% 19,862 27.32% 1,630 2.24%
2000 39,254 62.56% 19,890 31.70% 3,598 5.73%
1996 27,443 48.79% 21,404 38.06% 7,395 13.15%
1992 26,812 39.30% 17,795 26.09% 23,609 34.61%
1988 39,676 63.97% 21,431 34.56% 911 1.47%
1984 44,590 70.40% 18,346 28.97% 398 0.63%
1980 43,807 69.98% 15,404 24.61% 3,388 5.41%
1976 34,811 58.33% 23,111 38.72% 1,762 2.95%
1972 37,753 68.23% 14,503 26.21% 3,078 5.56%
1968 27,034 52.82% 20,465 39.98% 3,683 7.20%
1964 20,206 40.52% 29,666 59.48% 0 0.00%
1960 22,293 47.88% 24,239 52.06% 31 0.07%
1956 22,542 55.95% 17,747 44.05% 0 0.00%
1952 20,692 51.11% 19,795 48.89% 0 0.00%
1948 12,445 37.08% 20,861 62.16% 253 0.75%
1944 9,518 32.59% 19,639 67.25% 48 0.16%
1940 7,946 30.55% 18,037 69.35% 24 0.09%
1936 4,989 21.86% 17,594 77.08% 243 1.06%
1932 8,019 39.02% 11,541 56.16% 989 4.81%
1928 9,934 53.79% 8,361 45.27% 173 0.94%
1924 7,382 43.60% 3,970 23.45% 5,579 32.95%
1920 7,122 50.71% 5,239 37.30% 1,684 11.99%
1916 4,720 35.45% 8,139 61.14% 454 3.41%
1912 3,171 29.31% 2,986 27.60% 4,661 43.09%
1908 5,881 56.06% 3,965 37.80% 644 6.14%
1904 6,331 62.36% 3,108 30.61% 714 7.03%
1900 4,585 52.35% 4,092 46.72% 82 0.94%
1896 1,373 17.79% 6,343 82.21% 0 0.00%



See also[]

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Weber County, Utah

References[]

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Fisher, Richard Swainson (1855). A new and complete statistical gazetteer of the United States of America. New York: J.H. Colton and Company. p. 870. http://books.google.com/?id=lnJ1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA870. Retrieved February 5, 2011. 
  3. ^ census.gov Utah population by county, 1900-90. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  4. ^ quickfacts.census.gov - Weber County. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
  5. ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31. 
  6. ^ "Senator Millner Utah Senate". https://senate.utah.gov/sen/MILLNA/. 
  7. ^ "Senator Johnson Utah Senate". https://senate.utah.gov/sen/JOHNSJD/. 
  8. ^ "Senator Buxton Utah Senate". https://senate.utah.gov/sen/BUXTODG/. 
  9. ^ "Rep. Wilcox, Ryan D." (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/WILCORD/. 
  10. ^ "Rep. Waldrip, Steve" (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/WALDRS/. 
  11. ^ "Rep. Musselman, Calvin R." (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/MUSSECR/. 
  12. ^ "Rep. Lesser, Rosemary T." (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/LESSER/. 
  13. ^ "Rep. Miles, Kelly B." (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/MILESKB/. 
  14. ^ "Rep. Schultz, Mike" (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/SCHULM/. 
  15. ^ "Rep. Gwynn, Matthew" (in en-US). https://house.utah.gov/rep/GWYNNM/. 
  16. ^ "Jennie Earl". https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/jennieearl. 
  17. ^ "Scott Hansen". https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/scotthansen. 
  18. ^ "Brent Strate". https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/brentstrate. 
  19. ^ Leip, David. "Atlas of US Presidential Elections". http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS. 

External links[]

Coordinates: 41°18′N 111°55′W / 41.30, -111.92


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