North Salt Lake Directory Collections
The strongest verified North Salt Lake city directory anchors are the 1958 and 1959 R.L. Polk Salt Lake City Suburban Directory runs held through the University of Utah Marriott Library. They name North Salt Lake in their suburban coverage. Other years are present in the collection, but inclusion must be checked item by item. A search result that shows a collection title is not the same as a scan of the local page.
| Collection | Years | Where held | Access / use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polk Salt Lake City Suburban Directory | 1958–1959 verified | U. of Utah Marriott | Metadata and scan route; inspect each edition |
| Utah Directory and Gazetteer | 1879–80 | Open Library / scan | Davis County predecessor context |
| Davis County Clipper | 1892–1992 | Davis County Library | Library card required |
| Davis County records | 1869–1953 | FamilySearch catalog and images | Login or center may be needed |
| Marriage licenses, Series 6040 | 1887–present | Utah State Archives | Microfilm and archive description |
These are different kinds of city directory evidence. Polk gives a structured annual address trail. The Clipper gives dated community events. The gazetteer gives county names before the city boundary. Archives and FamilySearch give original record groups. Use the collection that matches the question.
1958 Polk North Salt Lake Pages
The University collection describes reference books that list residents, streets, businesses, organizations, and institutions. The books may be arranged alphabetically, geographically, or by publisher, and advertisements can add business context. The 1958 city directory search metadata specifically includes North Salt Lake within the Salt Lake City suburban run. That makes 1958 a useful fixed point for household and street research, not proof that every North Salt Lake address appears.
The North Salt Lake City Recorder page supplies the municipal records counterpart to historical collection work, including the civic records that can explain a name or address in context.
Record the title exactly. Note whether a name appears in a residential, business, or reverse section. A printed street line can be a home, office, or business address. Pair it with the Davis parcel map and Recorder only after preserving the historical wording.
North Salt Lake 1959 Directory Check
The 1959 item metadata also names North Salt Lake. Comparing the two years can show a name that persists, a street address that changes, a household that disappears, or a business that moves. It cannot by itself establish the exact day someone arrived or left. Historical directories are snapshots made for publication, not occupancy affidavits.
Do not assume 1957 or later years have identical local coverage. The inspected 1957 city directory suburban search did not include North Salt Lake in the title coverage visible during research, and the complete year-by-year inclusion list was not exposed. Verify the item and page before claiming a year. If the scan is unavailable, cite the metadata as a lead and label the gap.
The North Salt Lake archive shows the keyword, category, and date controls used to locate a civic record alongside a historical directory search.
Reading A North Salt Lake City Directory Entry
A useful entry inventory starts with the printed name, address, publisher and year, section or arrangement, and any occupation or business line that the edition actually supplies. Some historical conventions may add spouse or household notation, owner or renter marks, widow notation, and abbreviation codes. No edition should be assumed to contain all of them. The research crawl did not expose a sample North Salt Lake leaf, so these details must be read from the scan.
- Name as printed, including initials and spelling
- Street or geographic section, with the original format
- Publisher, edition year, and page or image reference
- Occupation, business, organization, or advertisement when present
- Household, spouse, owner/renter, or abbreviation marks only when visible
- Criss-cross directory
- An address-oriented directory that can be searched from a street or household location.
- Householder index
- A listing keyed to a principal household name, not a complete list of every occupant.
- Abbreviation key
- The publisher’s guide to short forms used for streets, occupations, relationships, or status.
- Index versus image
- Metadata or a name finding aid points to a record; the scanned page supplies the wording to transcribe.
Trace A North Salt Lake Household
Start with an address year, not a guessed life story. Write the street name as the directory prints it. Then test the nearest available editions and compare the household line with a census year. A directory can suggest continuity, but a deed, obituary, vital record, or census supplies a different type of check.
- Locate the 1958 or 1959 Polk edition and note its publisher, page, section, and boundary.
- Read the address entry and front-matter abbreviation key before copying a name or status mark.
- Repeat the search in the other verified year, keeping spelling and address formatting intact.
- Use the Davis County Property Search map and legal description to test the modern parcel relationship.
- Compare the date with a Clipper notice, census enumeration, marriage or death index, probate docket, or deed.
- Save a citation and mark any inference as unverified when no page image or independent source supports it.
A directory address does not equal a current resident. An owner can be away, a renter can be listed or omitted, and a business line can sit beside a residential line. The useful product is a dated historical lead.
Davis County Clipper Context
The Davis County Clipper back-issue archive spans 1892–1992 and requires a library card. It can locate birth and death notices, weddings, legal notices, incorporation, property transactions, civic meetings, and community events. Search both North Salt Lake and North Salt Lake City, plus Val Verda, Bamberger, water rights, McDuff Spring, McNeil Spring, Highway 89/91, and a family name.
OCR is a finding aid. Open the image and check the column, date, and nearby text before transcribing. A notice can give relatives or a residence clue, but it does not establish a full household. The Farmington headquarters at 133 S Main Street has a microfilm viewer and scanner, a local Davis and Utah collection, public computers, interlibrary loan, and digital scanning.
Before North Salt Lake Existed
The 1879–80 Utah Directory and Gazetteer is useful for Davis County and predecessor-area context. It describes residents and occupations across Salt Lake, Utah, Weber, and Davis counties. North Salt Lake incorporated in 1946 after a water dispute, so a nineteenth-century entry should not be described as a modern city directory listing. Search rural Davis County, post-office, railroad, and Bountiful-area wording as well.
North Salt Lake history names the railroad and a small post office as part of the city’s name story. Earlier records may use those place clues instead of a city label. The 1946 incorporation date is a boundary marker for municipal records, not a start date for people in the land.
North Salt Lake FamilySearch Books
FamilySearch’s Davis County set covers 1869–1953 and joins land, vital, cemetery, marriage, mining, naturalization, probate, and related county books. The original-custodian note matters. An image may require a login or FamilySearch center, and a catalog description is not a promise that every page is viewable online. Davis death material in the catalog covers 1898–1966, with gaps noted in a register segment.
State Archives indexes add Davis birth, death, divorce, and delayed-birth name routes. The cemetery guide warns that plot ownership and interment registers differ and that name indexing is uncommon. Start from an obituary or death certificate, then ask the cemetery custodian for the relevant interment record.
North Salt Lake Marriage License History
Utah State Archives Series 6040 describes Davis marriage licenses from 1887 forward. Pre-1947 applications and licenses can show names, residence, age, application date, minor consent, date issued, date of marriage, officiator, and witness. Later licenses generally show license data rather than every earlier application field. Use the archive description to choose the right period.
Marriage evidence can anchor two people to a place or year, but it does not prove that either person remained at that address. For a current or certified record, use the county Clerk or Utah Office of Vital Records route and follow relationship and proof rules.
North Salt Lake Directory Timeline
North Salt Lake’s record trail has overlapping clocks. Davis County records precede the municipality. The city incorporated in 1946. The verified suburban directory anchors are 1958 and 1959. Recorder computerization and microfilming began in 1981. The Clipper archive runs from 1892 through 1992. Xchange coverage for major Davis courts begins in the late 1990s, with court-specific dates.
| Period | Research meaning |
|---|---|
| 1879–80 | County and predecessor-area directory context |
| 1892–1992 | Davis County Clipper newspaper archive |
| 1946 | North Salt Lake incorporation boundary begins |
| 1958–1959 | Verified Polk suburban coverage including North Salt Lake |
| 1981 | Recorder computerization/microfilming begins, not a guaranteed web cutoff |
The city changed its formal name from North Salt Lake City Corporation to City of North Salt Lake in 2014. Search both forms in minutes and newspaper OCR.
Use The City Archive
The North Salt Lake archive filters by keywords, archive category, time period, and date range. Categories include City Council, Planning Commission, Public Notices, Trails and Active Transportation, Parks and Arts, the Redevelopment Agency, recordings, packets, and meeting materials. Minutes can name an applicant, speaker, official, or parcel in a public action.
The archive is not a residents directory. Its value is context: a current planning notice can explain why a parcel appears in a city file, while an older local-history lead can point back to the Clipper or a directory. The City Recorder is the contact for copies and GRAMA requests.
The North Salt Lake staff-directory page shows category, first-name, and last-name filters for routing civic questions.
