Barry Burton, assistant community development director of Davis County, said Hooper City, West Point and Clinton all have hopes of annexing this unincorporated Hooper into their boundaries someday. Burton's certain that one day this area will be annexed to one ore some of those three entities.

How Hooper came to straddle the Davis County line was also a mystery until recent years.

South Weber was originally in Weber County, as the county line then was not the Weber River at the mouth of Weber Canyon, but the top of the hillside to the south, near where the Weber Basin Water complex now sits.

The South Weber area's first bishop, Thomas Kingston, had some sort of ecclesiastical disagreement with Lorin Farr, Weber Stake president in Ogden. As a result, Kingston somehow got the state to move the county line north to the Weber River, so that South Weber was in Davis County and not under President Farr's administration.

It is believed that as a result of that boundary change, that part of the Hooper area ended up in Davis County, when the Weber County line moved north.

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