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Oakley is a city in Summit County, Utah, located 45 miles east of Salt Lake City on State Route 32 in the Kamas Valley, and it is a gateway to the Uinta Mountains.

The first settlers in Oakley were William Stevens and his wife Emma Crowden Stevens, who moved there in 1868, after the valley had been inhabited by Ute Indians and explored for settlement by Parley P. Pratt in 1850.

Oakley's original name was Oak Creek, for a creek east of the town site thickly overgrown with oak trees, and the town changed its name to Oakley in late 1886 or early 1887, chosen from many names submitted by settlers in a contest.

Oakley was incorporated in 1933 on land originally purchased from the Union Pacific Company by the early settlers in the land sale of the 1880s.

As of the 2020 census, Oakley had a population of 1,588 and 500 households, with a median age of 36.8 years, and all of its residents were classified as living in rural areas.

Oakley is most famous for its annual rodeo, held each year on the Fourth of July weekend and sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, which celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2005 with the opening of a 6,000-seat arena.

In 1998, Mayor Doug Evans and the town discovered an underground aquifer nearly 1,900 feet below the surface in Mississippian limestone, containing water that had not seen the surface in at least 18,000 years, and the town now uses this Humbug Well water for its municipal supply.

The current town hall was built as a Latter-day Saint church in 1903, followed by a schoolhouse in 1904, and a 1939 Daughters of the Utah Pioneers monument across from town hall honors the Utes and the Weber River Indian Trail.

Oakley was once a large producer of dairy products and now focuses on cattle- and horse-feeding and haying, while serving as a base for hiking, fishing, horseback riding, camping, hunting, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing.

The Road Island Diner, a former train car made into a restaurant, is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, and the locally owned Polar King is the town's other eating establishment.