Eden, Eden Valley, Pineview emerge as top possible names for new Weber County city
by Tim Vandenack ksl · KSL.comKEY TAKEAWAYS
- Eden emerged as the top contender in a survey of possible new names for the Weber County city now known as Ogden Valley.
- Eden Valley and Pineview came next, and now it's up to city leaders to make the final pick.
OGDEN VALLEY, Weber County — Residents of the new Weber County city currently known as Ogden Valley have spoken, and a plurality, at least, want to rename the locale Eden.
Other top contenders are Eden Valley and Pineview.
Ogden Valley, east of Ogden through the Ogden Canyon, formally came into being as a city just last January, and the new locale's leaders are in search of a permanent name. Ogden Valley is a contender, but in a survey of a range of name possibilities, Eden came out on top, though officials didn't reveal the specific vote tallies to KSL.
Weber State University representatives assisting with the survey released the results at an Ogden Valley City Council meeting on Tuesday, and now it's up to city leaders to make a final determination, probably at a meeting later this month. After Eden among the 2,000-plus survey respondents came Eden Valley followed by Pineview.
"The next step — consideration by the City Council. We don't have this on an agenda yet, but no doubt it will be," City Councilwoman Kay Hoogland said Wednesday. "Over 2,000 respondents is a strong showing."
City Councilwoman Peggy Dooling-Baker said city leaders aren't required to abide by the survey results, which are meant to assist them.
"We can take the results or not. We will have to discuss that as a council," she said in an email. "However, it was good to see that we had a pretty equal distribution of respondents from each (City Council) district! We also had the majority of responses from full-time residents."
The other possible names in the survey, in no particular order, are Liberty, Mountain Valley and Pineview Valley. Ogden Valley, the city, is located within the broader valley east across the Wasatch Mountains known as the Ogden Valley. It encompasses the unincorporated Eden and Liberty communities and largely surrounds Pineview Reservoir, giving rise to the varied name possibilities.
All along as the new city came into being, officials had said coming up with a permanent name would be one of their first tasks. But leaders also find themselves dealing with more weighty issues, most notably an expected $2 million shortfall as they prepare the locale's 2026-2027 budget.
The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.
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Tim Vandenack
Tim Vandenack covers immigration, multicultural issues and Northern Utah for KSL. He worked several years for the Standard-Examiner in Ogden and has lived and reported in Mexico, Chile and along the U.S.-Mexico border.