A lake bottom platted, sold, and refinanced
West Broadleaf Hollow Circle in Highland, Utah, sits on Lot 509 of the Dry Creek Highlands Phase 5 subdivision, platted by Ivory Development LLC in 2014. Ivory Homes built the house in 2015 and sold it to Anthony G. Parkinson, who added his wife Jocelyn to the title in 2020 during a refinance.
A subdivision plat turns hillside into Lot 509
Before there was a house here, there was a survey. In 2014, Ivory Development LLC filed the plat that made this ground into Lot 509, one piece of a new subdivision called Dry Creek Highlands Phase 5. The plat did what plats do: it drew lines across open land and gave the lines addresses. Yours is one of them. It went from acreage to inventory, from open hillside to a numbered lot waiting for a builder.
The company that platted it, Ivory Development LLC, worked the way production developers work across the growing suburbs at the north end of Utah County — buying ground, engineering streets and lots, and moving on. The subdivision took its name from Dry Creek, which drains the canyon above Highland toward Utah Lake, but the plat itself has nothing romantic in it. It is a legal instrument, recorded, indexed, and filed. It is the reason West Broadleaf Hollow Circle exists as a street at all.
A finished house sells within hours of closing
On July 17, 2015, Ivory Homes Ltd finished the house on Lot 509 and sold it the same day to a man named Anthony G. Parkinson. He financed the purchase with a deed of trust, signed within hours of taking title. This is how most houses in Dry Creek Highlands changed hands that year: builder to buyer, buyer to bank, all in a single visit to the title company. Parkinson's name entered the record that afternoon and stayed there, alone, for five years.
There is no drama in a closing. No one was hurt, no fortune was made or lost, no scandal followed the transaction. It is simply the moment the house stopped being the builder's product and became someone's address — thirty paces from where the original plat lines were surveyed a year before.
A wife joins the title and a mortgage renews
Five years after Anthony Parkinson bought the house by himself, he added a second name to the title. On April 3, 2020, a warranty deed brought his wife, Jocelyn, onto the record as co-owner. The Parkinsons signed a new deed of trust the same day, refinancing the house under joint ownership.
A serious crash strikes an intersection down the road
The one sharp thing to happen near Lot 509 didn't happen on it. On a Saturday before noon, a motorcycle and a passenger car collided at 6000 West and Canal Boulevard, a crash serious enough to send one person to the hospital. KUTV covered it as a critical injury collision in Highland. The intersection is down the way, not underfoot — the sirens passed this lot without stopping.
The deed book for Lot 509 keeps going, one filing at a time, on ground that has yet to earn a story of its own.
Every person, building and event in this story opens into its own dig in the app — and it will dig the ground you are standing on instead, wherever that is.