Most of Marriott-Slaterville was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1955 on, and the census since 2000.
Founding year: Wikidata; Wikipedia’s history section gives the same year. First post office: 1868.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Marriott-Slaterville’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Marriott-Slaterville is more historic than 10% of U.S. towns. Its share of homes from before 1940 holds the grade up; its age pulls it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Marriott-Slaterville’s overall grade.
Utah towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Utah town has 3.0 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Marriott-Slaterville’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (18% of Utah towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.1 points). Two sources give 1999.
Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Marriott-Slaterville’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Marriott-Slaterville City was originally settled by several Latter Day Saint pioneer families, in 1852, including the Richard Slater family, and the Perry, Smout, Marriott, and Field families. Many living descendants of these families, including relatives of J. Willard Marriott, pioneer hotelier of the 20th century and founder of Marriott International, still reside within Marriott-Slaterville.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Marriott-Slaterville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1955Plain City sheet · 1:24,000
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Marriott-Slaterville.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewJohn Marriott, 1913
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Marriott-Slaterville’s page.
In 1999, according to Wikidata and Wikipedia’s history of the town. Marriott-Slaterville’s post office opened in 1868, and the census of 2000 counted 1,425 people here.
How does Marriott-Slaterville rank for history?
Marriott-Slaterville is more historic than 10% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Marriott-Slaterville?
6% of Marriott-Slaterville’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.1 points), against a typical 2.8% for an Utah town; the median home was built in 1993.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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