Editing Kaysville, Utah (section)

==History==
[[Image:Kaysville Tabernacle of the LDS Church.jpeg|thumb|left|The Kaysville Tabernacle]]
Shortly after Latter Day Saint pioneers arrived in 1847, the Kaysville area, originally known as "Kay's Creek" or Kay's [[Ward (LDS Church)|Ward]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u78UAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22kay's%20creek%22%20utah&pg=RA1-PA35 - ''The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine'', Volumes 10-12]</ref> was settled by Hector Haight in 1847<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kaysvillecity.com//img/File/General%20Plan%202014%20final(1).pdf |title=- 2014 General Plan |access-date=2015-11-01 |archive-date=2015-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026221643/http://www.kaysvillecity.com/img/File/General%20Plan%202014%20final(1).pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> as a farming community. He had been sent north to find feed for the stock and soon thereafter constructed a cabin and brought his family to settle the area. [[Farmington, Utah]] also claims Hector Haight as its original settler. Two miles north of Haight's original settlement, Samuel Holmes built a cabin in 1849 and was soon joined by other settlers from [[Salt Lake City|Salt Lake]], namely Edward Phillips, John Green, and William Kay.<ref>[http://www.kaysvillecity.com/about.history.html Kaysville history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011080714/http://www.kaysvillecity.com/about.history.html |date=2008-10-11 }}. - City of Kaysville</ref>

Although settlement began in the 1847, the name of Kaysville connects with the fact that in 1851 William Kay was made the bishop in the vicinity by [[Brigham Young]] and [[Heber C. Kimball]].

After the move south in 1858 (see [[Utah War]]), there was an attempt to rename the community "Freedom", but Brigham Young convinced the residents to retain the old name.

In 1868 Kaysville became the first city incorporated in Davis County.

An adobe meetinghouse was built in 1863. It was replaced by the Kaysville Tabernacle in 1914. In 1930 Kaysville had 992 people. Of those residents who were Latter-day Saints, they all were in the Kaysville Ward which also covered most of the rest of the Kaysville Precinct.<ref>Jenson, Andrew. ''Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', p. 394-395</ref>

In 1977 [[United Airlines Flight 2860]] crashed near Kaysville.<ref name="NTSB Report AAR78-08.pdf">{{cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7808.pdf|title=Aircraft Accident Report United Airlines, Inc., Douglas DC-8-54, N8047U, near Kaysville, Utah, December 18, 1977.|date=July 27, 1978|publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]]|id=NTSB-AAR-78-8|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211160906/http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR78-08.pdf|archive-date=December 11, 2009|access-date=April 4, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

By 2008 there were seven [[Mormon]] [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)|stake]]s (similar to a [[diocese]]) in Kaysville.<ref>[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/maps/ LDS Church website list of Kaysville stakes], accessed May 3, 2008</ref>

In November 2009, Kaysville voters elected Steve Hiatt as Kaysville City's 38th mayor and the youngest mayor in Utah. He was sworn in on January 4, 2010. He was re-elected for a second four-year term in November 2013.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

The current mayor, Tamara Tran, won the 2021 election with 59.95 percent of the popular vote over Jay Welk.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2017 |title=Kaysville City, Utah |url=https://www.kaysvillecity.com/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/239 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210808043356/https://www.kaysvillecity.com/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/239 |archive-date=Aug 8, 2021}}</ref>