Clearfield Settlement

They called it the land of wind and sand, and settled it last. Richard and Emily Hamblin came in 1877 and dug into a sagebrush-roofed dugout on a dry ridge where nothing grew — hauling their water by barrel from a creek in Layton until Hamblin finally struck a well. What changed everything was the canal: when Davis and Weber County water reached the ridge in 1884, the sand turned to farmland almost overnight. A teacher looking over the new green fields suggested the name Clearfield. The old name had been Sand Ridge, and it had been honest.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 3.6 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 8.0 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 11 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886
• Snowbasin — 11 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.

More markers nearby

• Alma Stoker Park — 2.1 mi
• Syracuse First Social Center — 2.7 mi
• Clinton — 2.8 mi
• First Post Office in Roy — 3.1 mi