Davis County Fire Station #16 Building Plans

The architectural building plans labeled as “DC Fire Station #16” were created by Alv G. Youngberg & Associates. According to an article in the Davis County Clipper newspaper, dated Sept. 27, 1963, the three-bay, 5500 square-foot station was designed with room for office facilities and stalls for two pumper trucks, one tank truck, and the South Davis ambulance. Bids for the building were opened by the Davis County Commissioners on Aug. 28, 1963. Whitesides Construction Co., of Layton, won the contract with the lowest base bid of $46,980. Construction on Davis County Fire Station #16 began in September of 1963. The fire station, at approximately 375 N 500 West, in West Bountiful, was dedicated on August 15, 1964. The plans shows the fire station located on U.S. Highway 91, which is 500 West in Bountiful. According to the Davis County Clipper article, the County built a fire station a few years earlier at approximately 500 South and 500 West, which was torn down to make way for I-15. For more than three-and-a-half years, between the time when the previous station was torn down and the new one was built, the volunteer firefighters housed their equipment in a rented garage on 400 North, just west of 500 West.