Layton-Kaysville area had non-Native American residents before the Pioneers arrived

Yampatch Wongan Timbimboo was a Shoshoni Native American who lived in Northern Utah during Layton’s early history. Besides the Shoshoni, some Utah Utes also lived in the same regions of Salt Lake, Weber and Ogden Valleys and together totaled about 800 persons in the year 1865. Some were survivors of the Bear River Massacre of 1863. Indian tales in Layton are few, but a band of Native Americans lived near Dawson Hollow and Cherry Lane in the 1850s.

                                             -Heritage Museum of Layton photograph.

MORE than Native Americans had lived in the Kaysville-Layton area before the Mormon Pioneers arrived. There were at least two dug outs found that indicate the presence of white settlers BEFORE 1847.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune of May 28, 1916, early trappers had likely lived in the Kaysville-Layton area before the pioneers arrived.
When Kaysville settlers arrived in 1949-1850, they soon found two abandoned huts or dug outs about two miles south of today's downtown Kayville. Hector Haight discovered the relics. They were definitely not of Native American origin.
  The Ogden area had mountain man Miles Goodyear living there when settlers arrived and so it should not be surprising that North Davis County had similar residents in pre-pioneer times.