East Layton (Utah)

Davis County

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East Layton is a former city in Davis County, Utah in the United States. The assembled with Layton village was incorporated in 1936 as a Town to finance the local water supply properly can. East Layton remained a small, yet steadily growing city with no significant industrial and in 1972 converted into a City. The rapid growth during the 1970s led to the 1981 merger with Layton today the largest city in Davis County and one of the largest in Utah as a whole.

Geography

East Layton stretched from the Fairfield Road in the west and the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains to the east. The city boundaries were drawn irregularly and align north to the Antelope Drive and south to Gentile Street. The former city area included almost five square kilometers. The municipal offices were located on Emerald Drive 1010 ( 41 ° 4 ' N, 111 ° 56' W41.074444444444 - 111.93527777778 ) on the southwest corner of Andy Adams Park.

History

The area of East Layton was settled at the same time as Layton, whose namesake Christopher Layton was and was developed in the 1850s as an outgrowth of Kaysville. When Layton was incorporated in 1920, East Layton remained a separate non statuierte settlement with few inhabitants.

However, the local water supply was not reliable - a common problem in the arid climate of Utah. Wells and rivers dried up in Sonner out frequently and drinking water had to be fetched cumbersome. The time of his life in East Layton resident David Green hit so before a municipal water supply system, which was fed from the Crooked Canyon in the Wasatch Mountains further east. In the 1930s, Green had convinced a number of his neighbors, the banks in Utah awarded but due to the economic crisis very little money. For public works funds were provided by the Works Progress Administration (WPA ), but only for incorporated municipalities. In January 1936 53 East Layton residents signed a petition to form a Town so as to enable the construction of a water supply system. The city was incorporated on April 2, 1936 and determined David Green mayor.

The voters approved in 1937 unanimously East Layton taking out a loan and the EPA approved the request of the city. The funding was delayed, and residents of the city made ​​contact with Henry H. Blood and asked for support. Blood was the then governor of the state and could use his influence to expedite the settlement and move this project forward East Layton. David Green supervised the construction work that was carried out by paid by the WPA workers squads. This laid a pipeline from the outlet of Crooked Canyon to a reservoir on Valley View Drive on the eastern edge of the city. At one point in the course of a ravine line had to be overcome by a wooden trestle bridge. The difficult terrain hampered the construction and the building progressed slowly. Costs increased and the funds originally provided exhausted themselves. The state of Utah provided additional funds as matching fund provided, which corresponded to the amount of payments received from residents of East Layton. About 60 percent of the construction costs to completion, the WPA had contributed.

East Layton was once a sparsely inhabited rural settlement whose population initially decreased after the incorporation of 160 in 1936 to 124 in 1940. In the following decade, as Layton's population increased fivefold, East Layton did not keep pace; During this period, the population of East Layton could not even double. An advanced drinking water reservoir was completed in 1963 and 1969, the sewage system and a year later, the water supply has been expanded. In a particular population census in 1971 counted 859 inhabitants of the place, thereby East Layton met the requirements to be transformed into a city of the third degree in January 1972.

Despite the steady population growth East Layton never had an appreciable income from trade taxes, as there were hardly any companies in the city. The inhabitants bought a close in Layton or other cities. The land development in the 1970s led to rapid growth, as the city became a housing development for the nearby Hill Air Force Base. The tasks of a city loaded, their size quadrupled within a short time, the voters approved the proposal of the city government to incorporation into the larger to Layton. The two cities joined forces on 13 January 1981. Since then, East Layton has evolved, however, it is still a largely residential purposes occupied area, which is relatively sparsely populated.