Clearfield City Municipal and Justice Center Clearfield City Municipal and Justice Center Clearfield is a town/city in Davis County, Utah, United States.
The town/city interval drastically amid the 1940s, with the formation of Hill Air Force Base, and in the 1950s with the nationwide increase in suburb and "bedroom" improve populations and has been steadily burgeoning since then.
Clearfield is a principal town/city of the Ogden Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, which contains all of Davis, Morgan, and Weber counties.
Construction began on Hill Field (Hill Air Force Base) in 1940 and the facility eventually stretched along the easterly border of Clearfield.
Clearfield was considered a prime locale for the depot because of its relative security from enemy attack, close-by air transit at Hill Air Force Base, and the adjacency of barns s and highways.
The early winter of 1959 saw the beginnings of Clearfield High School, the first high school in northern Davis County.
Clearfield City dedicated a new town/city hall building in 1969 and a new state-of-art Clearfield Fire Station opened in 1980, contiguous to town/city hall.
The newest Clearfield City Municipal Building, positioned on 55 South State Street, was dedicated in December 1999.
Clearfield's premier office and commercial center, Legend Hills, is also the biggest office evolution space in north Davis County.
In 2005, the old Clearfield City Swimming Pool was completed to make way for the new center, and for an updated Bernard Fisher Park.
The Clearfield Aquatic Center opened in 2005 contiguous to the newly assembled North Davis Junior High, which until 2005 had been the earliest standing junior high building in Davis County.
The opening of the Utah Transportation Association (UTA) Front - Runner commuter rail stop in Clearfield in 2008 helped the town/city emerge as a centralized locale of business, enhance and improve development.
Davis County opened a three-story, 45,000 square foot office building housing the administrative offices of the Davis County Health Department in 2010.
The Heritage Senior Activity Center closed its Clearfield Community Center locale in 2011.
It reopened as the North Davis Senior Center in its new locale contiguous to the new county community building.
In 2012, the former Clearfield Community Center was retitled, becoming the Clearfield Community Arts Center.
Located east of the Clearfield City Municipal Building north parking lot, the center is expected to turn into a core for arts classes, theatre productions, and more.
Clearfield City Front - Runner UTA Station Clearfield City has a total territory area of 7.8 square miles (20.1 km2), and a populace of 30,112 as of the 2010 Census, making it the third biggest city in Davis County, behind Layton and Bountiful.
Clearfield City has an average altitude of 4,327 feet (1,320 m) above sea level.
The lowest point inside the boundaries of the town/city is 4,314 feet (1,315 m) at the intersection of 1000 West and Antelope Drive on the city's edge and the highest is 4,711 feet (1,436 m) at a point that is inside the city's northeast corner, but physically positioned on Hill Air Force Base property along Constitution Way in their housing area.
The town/city is positioned in the north central portion of Davis County.
The county is surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the west and the steep Wasatch mountain range on the east, although neither of these eminent natural landmarks is physically inside the town/city boundaries.
Directly encircling Clearfield are the cities/areas of Sunset City to the north, Clinton City to the northwest, Syracuse City and West Point City to the west, Layton City to the south and east, and Hill Air Force Base military installation to the northeast.
The only momentous waterway in the town/city is the Weber and Davis Canal along the east and northeast edge of the town/city that extends both north and south of the town/city boundaries.
The Clearfield Canal Trail alongsides the canal for a portion of its trip through Clearfield.
The Great Salt Lake is separated from Clearfield City by marshlands, mudflats and the metros/cities in between.
The highest mountaintops visible from Clearfield City are Deseret Peak in Tooele County at 11,031 feet (3362 m), Ben Lomond Peak in Weber County at 9712 feet (2960 m), and Thurston Peak, just to the west of Clearfield at 9,706 feet (2958 m).
The biggest earthquake that has occurred near Clearfield City in the recorded past occurred on 12/7/1967, and was 21.5 miles away in Park City, Utah and registered at magnitude of 4.3.
The streets of the city, along with the rest of Davis County north of Layton, are laid out on a unified grid plan.
Clearfield City is the farthest east on this grid, while Syracuse, West Point, Sunset, Clinton and Unincorporated Davis County all are positioned north, west and south on the same street grid.
Clearfield City has many informal neighborhoods, most of which are more company or industrialized related than residentiary.
In the southwestern portion of the town/city is a large industrialized company center called The Freeport Center, and the Clearfield Job Corps.
South Clearfield is a residentiary neighborhood that is of note due to its isolation as the southernmost section of the city.
It is cut off from the rest of residentiary Clearfield by The Freeport Center and other businesses, as well as being surrounded by other metros/cities on 3 of the 4 sides of the area.
(Commercial) Legend Hills is an office and retail oriented company region located in the southeastern most corner of the city.
The climate of Clearfield City is characterized as semi-arid, with four diverse seasons.
The major source of rain in Clearfield City is massive Pacific storms that move in from the Pacific Ocean along the jet stream from roughly October through May.
Clearfield City features large variations in temperatures between seasons.
Clearfield City pole at UTA station According to the 2010 United States Census, in the town/city of Clearfield there were 30,112 citizens residing in 9,595 homeholds, of which 76.5% were families.
Some of the state's and Davis County's biggest employers are positioned in Clearfield: Hill Air Force Base, Lifetime Products, Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company, Alliant Techsystems, Clearfield Job Corps (MTC), Futura Industries Corporation, and Smith Sport Optics, Inc.
Clearfield City has a "six-member council" form of government, with a town/city manager by ordinance.
The mayor votes only when there is a tie vote of the other council members present, when the council is voting on whether to appoint or dismiss the town/city manager, or on an ordinance that enlarges or restricts the mayor's powers, duties, or functions.
Other powers and duties of the mayor in a six-member council form of government can be taken from the mayor and given to either the council or town/city manager by the adoption of an ordinance by the council.
In 1966, such an ordinance was passed in Clearfield City, giving the town/city manager such powers and duties.
By ordinance, therefore, the town/city manager is the chief executive officer of Clearfield City.
This means that the town/city manager oversees the city's day-to-day operations, and all employees of the town/city report to the town/city manager.
The town/city council appoints and hires the town/city manager and the town/city manager reports to the mayor and council.
The town/city council shall elect one of its members to act as mayor pro tempore amid the temporary absence or disability of the mayor.
During such absence or disability, the mayor pro tempore shall possess the powers of mayor, except that the mayor pro tempore shall continue to cast votes as a member of the town/city council.
Kent Bush was re-elected to the City Council along with new Council Members Vern Phipps and Nike Peterson.
Enumeration of Population, 1960: Total Population Counts for the U.S., States, Outlying Areas, Counties, Cities, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Urban and Rural, Etc.
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