Ogden is a city in and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of the Great Salt Lake and 40 miles (64 km) north of Salt Lake City. The population was 87,321 in 2020, according to the US Census Bureau, making it Utah’s eighth largest city. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a convenient location for manufacturing and commerce. Ogden is furthermore known for its many historic buildings, proximity to the Wasatch Mountains, and as the location of Weber State University.

Ogden is a principal city of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes everything of Weber, Morgan, Davis, and Box Elder counties. The 2010 Census placed the Metro population at 597,159. In 2010, Forbes rated the Ogden-Clearfield MSA as the 6th best place to raise a family. Ogden has had a sister city relationship to Hof in Germany in the past 1954.

Originally named Fort Buenaventura, Ogden was the first long-lasting settlement by people of European line in what is now Utah. It was traditional by the trapper Miles Goodyear in 1846 roughly a mile west of where downtown Ogden sits today.

In November 1847, Captain James Brown purchased whatever the land now comprising Weber County together past some livestock and Fort Buenaventura for $3,000 (equivalent to $87000 in 2021). The estate was conveyed to Captain Brown in a Mexican Land Grant, this Place being at that times a allocation of Mexico. The harmony was next called Brownsville, after Captain James Brown, but was well ahead named Ogden for a brigade leader of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Peter Skene Ogden, who had trapped in the Weber Valley a generation earlier. There is some confusion practically which “Ogden” was the first to set foot in the area. A Samuel Ogden traveled through the western United States on an exploration vacation in 1818. The site of the indigenous Fort Buenaventura is now a Weber County park.