Hill Air Force Base – Ogden UT

City:
Ogden, UT

Site Type:
Military and Public Safety, Infrastructure and Utilities, Airports

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Description

“Hill Air Force Base (HAFB), originally known as Hill Field, was the site for the Ogden Air Depot, whose name underwent several changes until it became the Ogden Air Materiel Area. The depot’s original mission was to repair and maintain aircraft and provide supply services for the Army Air Corps. Launched in 1938 as a WPA project on a hilltop section of Davis County dry-farm land, by 1943 Hill Field was the largest employer in Utah.” “The site was selected in 1935 and the first facility built by the WPA four years later.” (utah.gov)

Source notes

https://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/from_war_to_war/militaryinstallations.html

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 30, 2016.

Location Info


Hill AFB
Ogden, UT

Location notes: General location marker for base

Coordinates: 41.132, -111.994

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