Bountiful Fort from: Utah Place Names

BOUNTIFUL FORT* (Davis County). The settlers of Bountiful* decided they needed a fort for protection against Indians. Construction began in 1854 and continued for two years, but the fort was never completed. See Bountiful* below.

BOUNTIFUL* (Davis County) is eight miles north of Salt Lake City* on I-15 and U-106. It was initially settled in 1847 by Perrigrine Sessions, Jezreel Shoemaker, and John Perry and their families. It has the distinction of being the second city settled by the Mormon pioneers in the Utah Territory. The name has been changed on several occasions. It was originally known as Calls Settlement* for Anson Call, who stopped to visit the area. The name was then changed to Sessions Settlement* for Perrigrine Sessions. For a time it was called North Mill Creek Canyon Ward* to distinguish it from Mill Creek Canyon Ward, east of Salt Lake City. This name was soon shortened to North Canyon Ward*. In 1854 the first post office identified the town as North Canyon Settlement*. The town was also known as Stoker* in honor of John Stoker, the first Mormon bishop in the area. He finally suggested the name "Bountiful" after an ancient city mentioned in the Book of Mormon. Bountiful was unanimously accepted and the name has remained unchanged since February 27, 1855. >S19,20,T2N,R1E,SLM; 4,408' (1,344m). Bibliography: Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of Utah, 1540-1886. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1964. (1st ed. 1889). Carr, Annie Call, comp. East of Antelope Island, rev. ed. n.l.: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, North Davis County Company, 1961. Foy, Leslie T. Bountiful: The City. Bountiful, UT: Horizon Publishing Co., 1975. Brigham Young, the Colonizer. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1940. Personal place name manuscript records. Utah, A Guide to the State. Work Projects Administration. Comp. by Utah State Institute of Fine Arts, Salt Lake County Commission. New York: Hastings House, 1941. Utah State Historical Society. Unpublished Archives on Geographic Names. Warrum, Noble. Utah Since Statehood, Historical and Biographical. Chicago: S. J. Clark Publishing Co., 1919.

EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS... 1. An asterisk (*) following a place name indicates past or present inhabitation. 2. When a series of letters and numbers are present towards the end of an entry after the ">" symbol, the first group indicates section/township/range as closely as can be pinpointed (i.e., S12,T3S,R4W,SLM, or USM). A section equals approximately one square mile, reflecting U.S. Geological Survey topographic map sections. Because Utah is not completely mapped, some entries are incomplete. In this case, whatever information is available will be provided. The second group, when present, is altitude in feet followed by meters in parentheses [i.e., 6,000' (1,829m)]. Altitude is not included with canyons or deserts with varying altitudes.

______SOURCE... Utah Place Names. Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah. University of Utah Press, 1990.

AUTHOR... Van Cott, John W.

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