North Ogden, Utah

3 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 T he Wasatch Front in northcentral Utah, is a long and narrow stretch of land situated along the western side of the rugged Wasatch Mountains. Approximately 80 percent of the state’s population lives in this metropolitan area within its adjacent cities and towns. Among these communities is North Ogden, a small, high-end suburb of Ogden, situated at the base of Ben Lomond Peak. The area’s first residents were Indigenous Americans like the Ute Tribe, whose word ‘Wasatch’ meaning ‘low place in high mountains’ perfectly describes the gorgeous landscape. European American fur trappers came to ‘Ogden Hole’ (now North Ogden) in 1820, before cattle ranchers settled the area in 1850. Over the next 70 years, North Ogden became a hub for the sugar beet industry and even housed a processing