Eden is a census-designated place in Weber County, Utah, United States.
[3] Eden is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the Ogden Valley census county division The first home here was a log cabin built in 1857 for summer herdsmen Erastus Bingham and Joseph Hardy.
A community was established in 1859 when fifteen families moved in via North Ogden Canyon and Pass.
The settlers hired a government surveyor, Washington Jenkins, to plot the town.
Jenkins said he thought the area was one of the most beautiful sites he had ever surveyed and suggested the biblical name "Eden".