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About eight miles north of Salt Lake City, in the Great Salt Lake Basin, is called Woods Cross. The Reservoir and Pipeline Company’s owners combined their Mill Creek water shares. They gave their capital stock and assets to the newly formed municipal board of trustees, resulting in the city’s legal charter in 1935. Originally, Woods Cross was an unorganized region that included the localities and settlements of Val Verda, Orchard, North Salt Lake, and West Bountiful, among others. It extended south Centerville’s southern limit to the Salt Lake County line.Woods Cross, UT 84087, also has an active internet supply from Xfinity Comcastservice provider.

History

Peregrine Sessions traveled to the north in 1847 in search of grazing land following the original Mormon colonization of the Salt Lake Valley. He chose a location close to Cudahy Lane, where he had spent the previous winter keeping an eye on the herds with his family. Other settlers began to come the next year, 1848, and constructed basements and dugouts near the Jordan River’s banks.

Water has had a significant role in Woods Cross’s historical history. Some of the greatest farmland in the state was generated by years of fertile silt deposits from Mill Creek’s overflowing channels, which were chosen by early settlers in 1848 to construct their farms there. The mountain watersheds east of Woods Cross reached saturation the runoff water entered the lowlands’ swampy meadows and sloughs. Along the eastern margin of the Great Salt Lake, part of the water was retained and absorbed into subsurface aquifers.

Woods Cross is named for Daniel Wood, one of the region’s first inhabitants. He was the richest man in Woods Cross by 1855, with property, homes, and personal belongings valued at about $14,000. He constructed a chapel in 1863, a school in 1854, and a railroad terminal and crossing known as Woods Crossing, later abbreviated to Woods Cross, on the lower section of his wealthy estate in 1869.

Runoff had nowhere to go when the watersheds in Bountiful were destroyed to make way for residences, and the sloughs along the Jordan were drained to make way for commercial and industrial development. The residents of Woods Cross had difficulty managing and using this water efficiently.

To direct the water where they wanted it to flow, they constructed wooden troughs and ditches along the hillsides and erected drains in the bottoms to convey the extra water to the lake. Additionally, they constructed holding ponds and underground cisterns to store the runoff until the locals needed it.

The city’s surface water wasn’t improved until a federally sponsored water project erected concrete containment walls, collecting basins, and lined canals carrying overflow to the Great Salt Lake in the 1980s.

The Lower Bonneville Canal finally took the role of the Lower Ditch in the Mill Creek water system. At the same time as the canal brought the city into poverty, it also started to give a sufficient and reliable water supply. Over $1,000,000 was spent on the Bonneville project, an enormous sum that the nearby farmers could not afford on their own. Almost all of the land in Woods Cross was mortgaged to pay the bonds and was in jeopardy of being returned to the state due to unpaid taxes. Over 80% of the bondholders’ initial investment was lost when the bonds were ultimately retired in 1946–1947.

Population

The people of Woods Cross are dedicated to their “rural way of life.” The town’s center comprises the municipal hall, park, and LDS chapel. The city is surrounded by small local companies and sparse heavy industries, and housing developments divide the two. Locals (60%) told interviewers they liked Woods Cross’ rural lifestyle and simpler way of life over living in Salt Lake City or Bountiful.

Many recent settlers have decided to raise their families in Woods Cross. When proposed as city projects, high-density housing and industrial complexes have constantly been opposed. Recent state and federal matching subsidies have enabled Woods Cross to delineate its limits and greet visitors with flowers and evergreens.