OGDEN, a city of Utah, U.S.A., 35 m. N. of Salt Lake City, at the confluence of the Ogden and the Weber rivers and the foot of the Wasatch mountains; the county seat of Weber county and the second city of the State in size. It is on Federal high ways 3oS and 91; has a municipal airport; and is served by the Denver and Rio Grande Western, the Southern Pacific, the Union Pacific, and several electric railways. The population was 32,804 in 192o (84% native white) and by the Federal census of 193o, 40,272. Ogden is 15 m. E. of the point on Great Salt lake where the Lucin cut-off begins (the railroad trestle 32 m. long, com pleted in 1903). It lies 4,300 ft. above sea-level, on an alluvial fan or semi-circular delta, formed under the water of the ancient Lake Bonneville. Mt. Ogden ( io,ioo ft. high, from which the entire shore line of the ancient lake, covering 19,75o sq.m., may be clearly seen) and Mt. Ben Lomond (10,90o ft.) rise abruptly
on the east, and between them the Ogden river makes its way through one of the most picturesque canyons in America. In a Chief among them are flour-milling, meat-packing, vegetable canning, and the manufacture of beet-sugar, candy, tin cans, cement, butter and powdered milk. A large oil refinery was established in 1927. The city's assessed valuation for 1927 was $40,046,381. Bank debits for 1926 totalled $249,248,000.
Ogden was settled by the Mormons in 1847 ; was laid out under the direction of Brigham Young in 185o; and was incorporated in 1851. It had long been known as Ogden's Hole, from the cache which the trapper, Peter Skene Ogden, had located here in 1826. The northern end of the city was a grassy meadow, where the Indians met for games and races and to with the white men.