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Mountain Green is an unincorporated census-designated place in northwestern Morgan County, located 16 miles up the Weber River from Ogden.

The 2020 census counted 4,231 residents in 1,147 households in Mountain Green, up from 2,309 residents in 2010.

Mountain Green is the world headquarters of the Browning Arms Company.

The present-day site of Mountain Green was the location of a historic meeting of three groups of mountain men in May 1825, when Peter Skene Ogden's Hudson's Bay Company trappers camped there alongside John Henry Weber's American trappers and Etienne Provost's company.

On May 24, 1825, John Gray led 23 Hudson's Bay Company freemen to desert Ogden's brigade, taking some 700 pelts with them, and the site became known as Deserters Point, where a rest stop with a historical marker stands today.

The highway connecting Mountain Green with the Ogden Valley over the ridge to the north is named Trappers Loop.

When Mormon pioneers began arriving in Morgan County in the 1850s, they found a man named Ben Simon already in possession of the Mountain Green land, which the Mexican government had granted him for grazing cattle before the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Mountain Green was named for its abundant green grass, and after numbering about 150 residents in 1877, the settlement fell to only 75 residents in the 1880 census as families left in fear of conflict with Native Americans.

The Ogden-based Browning Arms Company purchased a Mountain Green farm in 1961 for a rural test-firing facility, and by 1968 Browning had relocated its executive offices, research and development, sales, and data processing to the Morgan County location.

A volunteer fire department called the Mountain Green Fire District was established in July 1971, and a separate fire station was built in 1973.