Bountiful is a city in Davis County, Utah. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 42,552, a three percent increase greater than the 2000 figure of 41,301. The city grew shortly during the suburb deposit of the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s and was Davis County’s largest city until 1985, when it was surpassed by Layton. Bountiful is Utah’s 15th-largest city.

Although a allowance of the Ogden–Clearfield metropolitan area, it serves as a bedroom community to Salt Lake City and the surrounding area. However, due to the agreed narrow entry into Salt Lake County, roads amid the counties often achieve near-gridlock traffic during rush hour. The FrontRunner commuter rail has been direction since April 2008, and the Legacy Parkway was opened on September 13, 2008. These were built to encourage alleviate the traffic load on Interstate 15 through the Bountiful area.

Bountiful was settled on September 27, 1847, by Peregrine Sessions and his family. It was Utah’s second agreement after Salt Lake City. It was known as Sessions Settlement and North Canyon Ward past being named Bountiful in 1855. This city was appropriately named both because of the city’s reputation as a good place for gardening and because “Bountiful” is the name of a city in the Book of Mormon (Alma 52:9). Most of the settlers, and with many of the present inhabitants, are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The city in addition to shares 14 supplementary religious institutions, including a Catholic assistant professor and church, Saint Olaf School, established in 1959. The Bountiful Utah Temple was dedicated in 1995 by the LDS Church. A tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is next located in Bountiful.

The city was incorporated in 1892 taking into consideration Joseph L Holbrook as mayor.