Kaysville History

Settled 1849 • Davis County’s first incorporated city (1868)

Kaysville grew up along Kay’s Creek, where Samuel Holmes built a cabin in 1849, soon joined by Edward Phillips, John Green, and William Kay — the bishop the town was named for. On March 15, 1868, Kaysville became the first incorporated city in Davis County.

Worth Knowing

  • City-owned power since 1908. Kaysville runs its own electric utility — one of the few Utah cities that does.
  • Layton was once Kaysville. Layton farmers fought Kaysville taxation all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (Linford v. Ellison, 1894) and eventually split off.
  • The first in the county. Incorporated 27th in all of Utah Territory.

More at the city’s Early History page.

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