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Willard is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,772 at the 2010 census.

In 1851, several companies of Mormon settlers were sent north from Salt Lake City to a northern recess of the Great Salt Lake, now Willard Bay. A company of nineteen located upon North Willow Creek, 7 miles (11 km) south of the site where Brigham City would be established. Two years later, the infant community relocated two miles other south, and a fort wall was built due to the possibility of attacks by the Shohone and their allies. Willard’s first settlers were mostly of Welsh, English, Scottish and Dutch descent. Most were farmers, but some were merchants, carpenters, blacksmiths and hypothetical teachers. Historically, the economy of Willard centered upon agriculture, with fruit crops brute the major product. Gravel excavation and worked rock have after that been a significant source of income.

Henry G. Sherwood surveyed North Willow Creek in 1851. The community was renamed Willard in great compliment of Willard Richards (1804-1854, a recently deceased Apostle of the LDS Church and counselor to Brigham Young, in 1859. Willard standard its charter as a city in 1870.