Bountiful, residential city, Davis County, northern Utah, in a farm area between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake, near Salt Lake City; incorporated 1892. Utah's second oldest non-Native American community, it was founded in 1847 by Perrigrine Sessions, a Mormon pioneer. The oldest continuously used Mormon chapel is located here. The community was called Sessions Settlement until 1855, when the present name was selected, probably from the Book of Mormon. Population 32,877 (1980); 36,659 (1990); 41,301 (2000).
