Layton, Utah Real Estate Services

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Layton Real Estate, Utah

Layton, located in the state of Utah, north of Salt Lake City near the Great Salt Lake, is a rapidly growing community of over 60,000 residents  has recently become the most heavily populated city in Davis County with a population of approximately 41,784 (1990). 

Hill Air Force Base, a major Layton employer, has played a major role in the city’s growth.  Layton has also become an important shopping and business center in the area with many businesses including the Layton Hills Mall.  Layton homeowners enjoy living near the mountains, near major skiing and other recreational areas.

Layton Homes

The housing values continue to increase in Layton. For the majority of Layton's residents, housing is affordable. The median Annual Family Income for the Davis County area is $53,400. Layton City has a broad range of housing types, including single-family detached homes, mobile homes and attached dwellings. Within these categories there is a range of sizes and costs. 76% of the housing in Layton City has been built since 1970 and 49% has been built since 1980 according to the 1990 Census. These number of course should be adjusted for building which has occurred since then. The amount of new housing constructed over the last several years has resulted in a relatively new housing stock in Layton City.

Employment

Layton is attractive because it's close to major employment centers. A major goal of Layton City is for more people live and work in Layton. This can be accomplished by creating jobs, which keeps the unemployment rate low, usually below 4%. Lower income residents in Layton are centered around the historic center of the city in older neighborhoods and in older public and private multiple family housing units. Layton has a very small minority population (7.3%) that is spread over the entire community.

History

The American Indians inhabited the Layton area for many centuries until trappers and frontiersmen came to the Rocky Mountains and explored these valleys. The first documented encounters between the Indians and frontiersmen occurred in the fall of 1825 between a group of trappers and Blackfoot Indians. Trappers and frontiersmen would occasionally visit the area, but never settled here before the Mormon pioneers came in 1847. The first pioneers who came the area just picked out a place to live by the location of a spring or along the banks of a creek. The first homes were built on the north banks of the stream. These early dug-out style homes sufficed until logs could be brought down from the mountains to build sturdier homes.  Later, homes were built out of adobe, rocks and bricks.

The area north and east of the north and center forks of Kays Creek was known as "Scotland", due to it's early residents who were from Scotland.  Many of the other settlers of Layton were English. Remarkably many of these English settlers came to Layton not from England directly but from Canada, and namely what is known today as Greater Toronto Area, localities like Etobicoke, King West, or even from the location across lake Ontario which came to be known later as downtown Toronto or waterfront Toronto. A road was built by these English Torontonians and it was made to the farmlands on the west from the center of Layton along the section line.  Homeowners who lived on Gentile Street did not embrace the Mormon faith and were called gentiles. A small fort was built on the south bank of Kays Creek overlooking the Sandridge road called Little Fort Lane to Morris Town Hill to protect the people from Indians. The main road from Salt Lake City to Ogden went through Layton. Stagecoach lines established In 1857 carried mail and passengers between Montana, Salt Lake City and points north and west ran through Layton until the arrival of the railroad in 1869 when Central Canal Company has started construction of a canal to bring water from the Weber River out on land north and west of Layton.  Alfalfa hay and grain were raised by pioneers in large quantities allowing for cattle, sheep, and horses to be raised on fine pastures in the hollows. The dairy and poultry industries were also important.

The first public building in Layton was a log schoolhouse completed in 1860 and replaced by a brick built, stove heated, schoolhouse in 1875.  The old log schoolhouse with a dirt roof and open fireplace was abandoned.

In 1884, the Davis and Weber areas were incorporated and in 1896, construction was started on a dam at East Layton and later at Echo for water storage. The Davis and Weber Canals carried water to more of Sandridge which became one of the most fertile spots in Davis County.

The history of Layton really begins of the history of the city of Kaysville. Most of what is now Layton was part of Kaysville, until 1890. There was a growing problem of taxation between residents of Kaysville and people of the rural area to the north. People in the outlying rural areas did not like paying the city taxes. The taxes controversy over continued for years including a Utah Supreme Court proceeding which lead to Layton's legal designation as a farming community, and official separation from Kaysville on March 1, 1902.

Layton, named after Christopher Layton, a prominent businessman, pioneer, LDS Church leader and farmer, officially became a city when it was unincorporated 1920.  Interestingly, Layton himself never lived in Layton, his home was in Kaysville.  

Layton Real Estate service information.
 

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Layton Real Estate by Carolyn Koskan

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