I live in South Ogden City. Used to be called Burch Creek. The general area (confirmed by Craigslist) is called "Ogden-Clearfield" which is a Metropolitan Statistical Area. Since 80% of the people in Utah live in a 100-mile stretch along Interstate 15, it's pretty much a bunch cities squashed together cheek-by-jowl. If you live north of Ogden, you might live in Harrisville, or North Ogden. If you live south of Ogden, you might live in Roy or Layton.
If you live in Ogden, you might (like me) live in South Ogden City. My mail says Ogden. South Ogden City is like a municipal peninsula (say that three times fast) wedged into the southerly portion of Ogden. You might also live in Washington Terrace. As a result of the jigsaw city effect, no one seems to mention actual neighborhoods in Ogden. I've heard of two: Jefferson Historical District and East Bench. (I recently heard one home owner in East Bench refer to it as "Harrison Heights." East Bench makes more sense.) East Bench is a bench on the mountains at the eastern extreme of Ogden. It's entirely east of Harrison Avenue north of Weber State University.
But that's it. People ask where I live, and I can only give prosaic street coordinates. So I made up some more neighborhoods. Maybe they'll catch on. I'm designating the area just west of Weber State University that comprises parts of Ogden and South Ogden City in the neighborhood behind and to the north of McKay Dee Medical Center "West Bench." If you go downhill on Bel Mar, you'll notice that it is a distinct neighborhood.
Below that, continuing downhill along the south side of 36th Street, you'll find yourself in the more blue-collar neighborhood, which I will call the Lower West Bench. There's a weird sort of middling OK neighborhood just north of there along either side of Jefferson that I'm going to call NoLoWeBe - North of Lower West Bench (in honor of the best neighborhood acronym ever "DUMBO" - Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and in the tradition of NoLa, NoHo, and Nolita.
Of course, the area on the west side of Harrison down 25th Street can be the Lower East Bench. I'll look for historical corrections and other suggestions in the comments. Let's carve up this town into desirable neighborhoods and call them our own!
UPDATE: I started a collaborative interactive google map of the neighborhoods in Ogden.
I sketched in some of the neighborhoods. Add your own!!
UPDATE #2: Even better! Open Street Map has all of the old neighborhood addition names right on it - many of which are pretty fun: Nelson Park, Prospect Heights, Lakeview, etc.; though I must say, that my little corner of Ogden remains somewhat ambiguous, so I will still refer to it as "Jefferson Meadows."
UPDATE: I started a collaborative interactive google map of the neighborhoods in Ogden.
I sketched in some of the neighborhoods. Add your own!!
UPDATE #2: Even better! Open Street Map has all of the old neighborhood addition names right on it - many of which are pretty fun: Nelson Park, Prospect Heights, Lakeview, etc.; though I must say, that my little corner of Ogden remains somewhat ambiguous, so I will still refer to it as "Jefferson Meadows."
