Eden is a

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in Weber County,

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, United States. It is home to

Powder Mountain Powder Mountain is a ski resort located in the western United States east of Eden, Utah, stretching between Weber and Cache counties in the Wasatch Range which covers , and is one of the largest ski resorts in the U.S. The resort was establis ...

ski resort. It lies between the North and Middle Fork of the

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, north of Pineview Reservoir, in the

Ogden Valley Ogden Valley (Shoshoni language, Shoshone: Ink-ah-we-in-da, “Red Pass Basin”) is a high mountain valley and ski resort community in Weber County, Utah, Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 6,855 at the 2010 United States Cens ...

. The population was 600 at the 2010 census. It has a

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with the ZIP code 84310. Eden is part of the Ogden– Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the

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History

The first home here was a log cabin built in 1857 for summer herdsmen Erastus Bingham and Joseph Hardy. A community was established in 1859 when fifteen families moved in via North Ogden Canyon and Pass. The settlers hired a government surveyor, Washington Jenkins, to plot the town. Jenkins said he thought the area was one of the most beautiful sites he had ever surveyed and suggested the biblical name "Eden". An earlier temporary name was North Fork Town.

Climate

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 600 people living in the CDP. There were 204 housing units. The racial makeup of the town was 95.8% White, 1.0% Black or African American, 0.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.5% Asian, 0.3% Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 1.0% some other race, and 1.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.2% of the population.

Notable people

* Taylor Booth (born 2001) – soccer player and 2024 Olympian * Zach Booth (born 2004) – soccer player * David Eccles (1849–1912) – businessman and industrialist

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