Clearfield Previous Residents: Address Eras
A house history has several layers. A parcel card identifies the current county property record. A deed chain identifies recorded transfers. A city directory or criss-cross volume can identify a listed occupant. A census page supplies a household snapshot. A newspaper can date a marriage, death, civic appearance, or move. Cemetery and probate records can close the story after a death. The goal is not to turn these sources into one list, but to show which fact each source supports.
| Source | Coverage | Where held | What it shows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Recorder collection | Records since 1850; land collection from 1870 | Recorder office and county systems | Recorded ownership instruments and legal descriptions |
| REDI-Web | Online records roughly 1983 forward | Davis County Recorder | Indexed abstracts, plats, surveys, images and PDFs |
| Clearfield directory | Verified 1967, 109 pages | FamilySearch catalog and directory collection | Dated names, addresses, phones and household notation |
| Davis County Clipper | 1892 to 1992 | Davis County Library Digital Library | Obituaries, notices, community events and address clues |
| Census | 1790 to 1950 released | National Archives, Census, FamilySearch | Household members, ages, relationships and birthplace |
| Cemetery and probate | Dates vary by series and access | Clearfield Memorial Park, courts, Archives | Burial, relatives, estate parties and transfers |
Coverage is uneven. The Recorder’s physical history is older than its searchable digital era. No official Clearfield street-renumbering table or complete reverse-directory run was located. Those gaps should remain in the research log rather than being filled with a guessed address conversion.
Clearfield Previous Residents: Today’s Parcel
Enter the street address in Davis County Property Search 2.0, choose the suggested match, and click the parcel polygon. Save the Parcel ID, Legal Description, situs address, owner display, mailing address, tax link, and date. The county says selecting the city can produce better address results. The map’s public information may be 24 hours old, is not a legal document, and is not a title search.
The parcel ID and legal description are the durable keys. A mailing address can point to another property, a business, a post-office box, an agent, or an estate. A situs address is the physical parcel. If an old street label fails, try the parcel number, subdivision, lot and block, a broad street string without directional or Lane/Circle terms, or a Recorder book and page reference.
House-history vocabulary. A chain of title is the sequence of recorded transfers. Grantor is the conveying party and grantee is the receiving party. A legal description identifies the land in the deed system, even when a street label changes.
Use the Davis County Property Watch information to understand the county’s prospective deed and mortgage alert route.
Clearfield Previous Residents: Deed Chain
Once the current owner and parcel are known, search the Recorder by owner, parcel, serial number, address, document entry number, or legal description. Find the instrument that transferred the property to the current owner. The grantor is the earlier seller. Search that name or party with the same parcel or legal description to locate the prior acquisition. Repeat the process, recording each instrument number, date, book and page, role, and legal description.
- Capture today’s parcel ID, legal description, owner display, and situs address.
- Locate the current acquisition deed in the Recorder index or REDI-Web.
- Record the grantee, grantor, instrument type, recording date, and entry number.
- Search the seller as an earlier grantee on the same parcel or legal description.
- When the online trail reaches the roughly 1983 digital cutoff, ask the Recorder about office books, microfilm, or Archives routes.
- Compare every owner date with directory, census, newspaper, cemetery, and estate evidence before calling someone a past resident.
REDI-Web lists a $25 monthly subscription, $1 digital document copies, and image access tied to the account level. Search charges may accrue even with no result. The Recorder lists ordinary copies at $2 per page and can help locate a parcel or record, but it does not provide a title search or legal advice. A deed shows a legal transfer. It does not prove that the owner lived at the parcel.
Clearfield Previous Residents and the 1983 Cutoff
Davis County says records exist since 1850 and its historical land-record collection begins in 1870, while REDI-Web help places the searchable online property era at approximately 1983. This is not a contradiction. Local books and physical records can be older than the searchable digital index. Microfilming and computerization began around 1981, which helps explain why a 19th-century owner may need a counter, a book, an archive, or a genealogy image rather than a modern keyword search.
The Utah State Archives research portal can be searched by record description, name or keyword, agency, series, and digital collection. Older court and civil materials can transfer after about 50 years. FamilySearch images depend on the specific catalog item and rights. For each gap, write “not located online” rather than “did not exist.”
Search older series through the Utah State Archives research portal.
Clearfield Previous Residents in the 1967 Snapshot
The verified Clearfield City, Davis County, Utah directory - 1967 is 109 pages. Its sample places a surname first, then a given name or initial, an occupation or installation abbreviation, spouse in parentheses, family notation in some entries, a street address, and an 825 telephone exchange. HAFB and USAF appear in the sample. Preserve these forms as printed and use a source key before expanding them. The directory occupant may be a relative, boarder, or other non-owner, so compare the address with a deed.
No official source verified a complete year-by-year Clearfield criss-cross run. Ask the Davis County Library or Farmington reference desk about reverse directories, telephone volumes, and microfilm. The city-directory page covers the collections themselves. Here, the volume is a dated occupant clue in an address history.
Clearfield Previous Residents and Census Years
Use the nearest released census to test a directory household. Compare the surname, spouse, children, ages, birthplaces, occupation, ward, street, and nearby households. A directory year can show a phone and address while a census year shows household relationships. The two sources may disagree because they were collected at different times or used different definitions.
- Transcribe the directory title, year, page, name, address, phone, spouse, and abbreviations.
- Choose the nearest released census, such as 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, or 1950.
- Compare household members, ages, birthplace, street or ward, and neighbors.
- Use the Clipper to date a move, marriage, death, court notice, or civic appearance between those snapshots.
- Use the parcel and Recorder chain to separate an occupant from a legal owner.
The 1890 federal census schedule is lost. Davis marriage licenses, land records, church or ward records, newspapers, cemetery material, and local registers are the bridge for that interval. A household disappearing from a directory may have moved, died, changed name, or simply fallen outside the publication.
Clearfield Previous Residents in the Clipper
The Davis County Clipper archive spans 1892 to 1992 and can place a person between directory years. Search obituaries, marriage notices, legal notices, school and community events, public meetings, business notices, and funeral references. Capture the exact issue date and page, full name, relatives, stated residence, and the wording that matters. A notice is a date marker, not a deed or certified vital record.
When the death index or Clipper identifies a deceased resident, connect the notice to Clearfield Memorial Park, probate, and an estate deed where the material is open. The cemetery’s order fields include lot owner, person to be buried, funeral director, burial date and time, and grave space. These fields help identify the next record request without publishing a living household.
Find the newspaper route at the Davis County Library Digital Library.
Clearfield Previous Residents: Cemetery and Probate
Utah’s death index covers 1905 to 1970 through the Archives, and current or later certificates route through OVRS and the local health window. The public opening period for death records is 50 years under Utah Code §26B-8-125, subject to exceptions. Probate and court materials can show estate parties, heirs, or transfers, but sealed, protected, juvenile, adoption, and restricted records are not open just because the person is deceased.
The practical end point is a set of linked facts: dated directory occupant, newspaper or death index lead, cemetery or burial record, probate party, and recorded estate transfer. If one link is missing, leave the chain open. A previous-residents search should distinguish a person who occupied the address, a person who owned it, and a person connected to the estate.
Lawful use. Use past-resident research for family history, house history, and personal curiosity. Do not use an address trail to stalk, harass, intimidate, or harm a living person.
Clearfield Previous Residents: Changed Addresses
No official source located a complete Clearfield street-renumbering, renaming, or annexation conversion table. When a historic street string does not match today’s map, keep the original wording, then search a broad street form, omit a directional prefix or Lane/Circle suffix, try nearby streets, and use the legal description, plat, subdivision, lot, block, book, page, or document entry number. The parcel and legal description are the best bridge.
Do not claim that an old and new address are the same until a plat, deed, county staff response, or other dated source supports the connection. Search a historical directory year, Clipper issue, and parcel record together. If no source resolves the address, mark it as an unresolved lead and preserve the uncertainty.