Croydon, Utah

Croydon, Utah
Unincorporated community
Croydon "City" Park, August 2008
Croydon
Location of Croydon within the State of Utah
Croydon
Croydon (the US)
Coordinates: 41°04′07″N 111°30′50″W / 41.06861°N 111.51389°W / 41.06861; -111.51389Coordinates: 41°04′07″N 111°30′50″W / 41.06861°N 111.51389°W / 41.06861; -111.51389
Country United States
State Utah
County Morgan
Settled 1862
Named for Croydon
Elevation[1] 5,344 ft (1,629 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP codes 84018
Area code(s) 435
GNIS feature ID 1427128[1]

Croydon[1] is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Morgan County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Historical population
CensusPop.%±
1880248—
1890240−3.2%
1900185−22.9%
1910539191.4%
1920392−27.3%
193044112.5%
1940357−19.0%
1950279−21.8%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau[2]

Descripiton

Accessible from Interstate 84, it is home to Holcim's Devil's Slide Cement Plant and several hundred residents. Lost Creek runs through this small unincorporated town, just northeast of the Devil's Slide rock formation. Cattle and sheep ranches can be found throughout the valley and in the surrounding mountains. Croydon was also home to the annual Widowmaker snowmobile and motorcycle hillclimbing events for several years.

Croydon was originally called Lost Creek, and under the latter name was founded in 1862. The present name is after Croydon, in England, the native land of a large share of the first settlers.[3]

See also

Utah portal

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Croydon". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ "Census of Population and Housing". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 8 Feb 2006. Retrieved 4 Nov 2011.
  3. ↑ Van Cott, John W. (1990). Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names: A Compilation. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-87480-345-7. OCLC 797284427. Retrieved 16 Feb 2018.



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