This point sits on a residential lot in Highland, Utah, platted in the late 1990s on former farmland above Dry Creek.
Last reviewed 7 November 2026 · A two-minute read · 1849–now
The short answer
West Dry Creek Circle in Highland, Utah is a residential lot platted in 1997 as Lot 17 of the Dry Creek Phase 1 subdivision, carved from farmland above Dry Creek. A 6,071-square-foot stucco house was built there in 2001, after several changes of ownership, and the property has belonged to the owners since 2014.
1997 to 2001
Farmland becomes a numbered lot, then a house
West Dry Creek Circle in Highland, Utah lies inside a quiet subdivision of large homes on wide lots along the base of the mountains. Before the houses came, this was open ground, part of the farmland and foothill land that filled this stretch of Utah County.
In 1997, a developer called Dry Creek Estates LLC filed a plat carving the land into numbered lots. This parcel became Lot 17, just over two-thirds of an acre. The next year, Dry Creek Estates sold the lot to a private buyer.
The lot changed hands twice more before anyone built on it, moving between the owners, a private buyer, and a private buyer. Then, in 2001, a developer called Promax Development Corporation held it briefly while a house finally rose on the land: a two-story, stucco-sided home with over six thousand square feet of living space.
2001 to 2014
The owners holds the new house for years
The owners took the finished house back from Promax in the same year it was built, and held onto it for over a decade. In 2014, they sold the property to a private buyer.
2014 to now
The owners takes ownership of the property
A private buyer has held the property since that 2014 sale, and the county's own record now lists a private buyer as the owners. Nothing further is recorded about the house itself.
The ground around this lot has a longer and harder story than the house itself. Highland, Utah County sits in land that belonged to the Timpanogos and Ute people before settlers arrived. In the 1870s, homesteaders began farming the bench above Dry Creek, including Stephen Moyle, who built first south of the creek and then north of it, working dry-farmed grain on land not far from this subdivision.
Highland's homesteading families arrived into that landscape a generation after a militia conflict in Pleasant Grove. In Pleasant Grove, north of Alpine and not far from Highland, General Daniel H. Wells led the Nauvoo Legion and the Deseret Militia against the Timpanogos Utes on March 5, 1849, in what is remembered as the Battle Creek Massacre. Several dozen Timpanogos people were killed. The attack was part of a wider military campaign through Utah Valley, and it pushed settlers in Alpine to build forts in 1853 and 1855 for their own protection. They arrived after the worst of the fighting but still on land taken from people who had lived there first.
Utah County has also seen its share of disaster in more recent years. Wildfires have burned here more than once: the Ether Hollow Fire in 2020 and the Iron Fire in 2026 both led to federal disaster declarations for the county. Flooding struck in 2023, serious enough to bring its own federal declaration.
The lot stayed open farmland and foothill ground through the valley's conflicts, and only became a platted subdivision lot in the 1990s, long after Utah County had turned from frontier to suburb. The house that stands here now was built in 2001, a stucco home on land once claimed, farmed, and fought over by people whose names rarely made it into any deed.
The lot remains a private residence on West Dry Creek Circle, part of a subdivision built into the farmland at the base of the mountains above Highland, Utah County.
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Modern
March 5, 1849, near Battle Creek, north of Alpine
General Daniel H. Wells of the Nauvoo Legion and the Deseret Militia killed several dozen Timpanogos Utes on March 5, 1849, near present-day Pleasant Grove in a preemptive strike.
In 1851, settlers moved onto the bench land now occupied by Alpine and Highland, establishing homesteads on what had been Timpanogos and Ute Indian land.
In 2023, the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared a flooding disaster in Utah County, affecting the region where you stand.
Era background — not a record of this tile · FEMA Disaster Declarations
June 2026
In June 2026, a roundabout construction project at Highland Boulevard and 11800 North created detours through nearby residential streets, including concerns for the Dry Creek neighborhood.
Before the subdivision, the land at West Dry Creek Circle was open farmland and foothill ground, part of a broader stretch above Dry Creek that had been homesteaded from the 1870s onward by families including Stephen Moyle.
When was the house at West Dry Creek Circle built?
The house was built in 2001, a two-story, stucco-sided home with just over six thousand square feet of living space.
Who owns the property now?
A private buyer are listed as the owners in county records, following a private buyer's purchase of the property on September 8, 2014.
Who platted the subdivision at West Dry Creek Circle?
Dry Creek Estates LLC filed the plat in 1997, dividing the former farmland into numbered lots, with this parcel becoming Lot 17.
What happened at Pleasant Grove near Highland in 1849?
On March 5, 1849, General Daniel H. Wells led the Nauvoo Legion and the Deseret Militia in an attack on Timpanogos Utes near present-day Pleasant Grove, killing several dozen people in what is remembered as the Battle Creek Massacre.
Did the lot change owners before the house was built?
Yes, the lot passed between the owners, the owners, and the owners, and was briefly held by developer Promax Development Corporation in 2001 while the house was constructed.
