Geography
The city has a total area of 26.6 square miles of land. Ogden
Utah is 10 miles east of the Great Salt Lake and 40 miles north of
Salt Lake City.
Demographics
As of
2000, there were 77,226 people, 27,384 households, and 18,402
families residing in Ogden homes.
The median income for Ogden homes was $34,047, and
the median income for a family was $38,950.
Interesting People
Ogden is the hometown of Hal Ashby, Academy
Award winning film director, Rodney Bagley, inventor of the
catalytic converter, John Moses Browning, inventor and firearms
designer, Tom Chambers, Wataru Misaka, Byron Scott, and Tanoka
Beard; all basketball players. As well as musician/song-writers;
Virl Osmond of the Osmond family, Red Nichols, and Kent James.
Also, actors Byron Foulger and Gedde Watanabe, and the great hotel
magnate; J. Willard Marriott.
Home of Famous Movies
Everwood, Blind Dating, Firestarter 2, Drive Me
Crazy, Con Air, The Sandlot, Three O'Clock High, Fletch, Dumb and
Dumber, Halloween 2, The Stand, Air Bud and LL Cools J's music
video for "Doin' It"
Education
Weber State University, Ogden-Weber Applied
Technology College, and Ogden City School City District
History
Ogden City Utah was the first permanent
settlement by Europeans in the Utah region. It was first named;
Fort Buenaventura.
It was established by the trapper Miles Goodyear
in 1846. Later purchased by the Mormon settlers for $1,950, the name
was changed to Brownsville and later "Ogden", for a brigade leader
of the Hudson's Bay Company, Peter Skene Ogden.
Ogden has historically been the second largest
city in Utah until recently since Salt Lake City suburbs and Provo
has surpassed the Ogden population.
Today, Ogden Utah provides a pleasant and
affordable environment
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