Croydon, Utah | |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Utah#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Croydon |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Croydon within the State of Utah |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Utah |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Morgan |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Date: | 1862 |
Named For: | Croydon |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Mountain (MST) |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Elevation Ft: | 5344 |
Coordinates: | 41.0686°N -111.5139°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 84018 |
Area Code: | 435 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 1427128 |
Croydon is an unincorporated community in northeastern Morgan County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden - Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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, hosted by the Wilde family of Croydon Utah, the Widowmaker was a snowmobile and motorcycle hillclimbing event 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.[1]