The city of Bountiful was a Nephite city in the northeastern part of Nephite territory, named in the record chiefly for its role in the Amalickiahite war and the later Lamanite invasion. During the twenty-seventh year of the reign of the judges, Teancum based his army at Bountiful: after finding the Lamanite-held city of Mulek too strongly fortified to attack, he returned to Bountiful to wait for Moroni, who arrived there with his army and held a council of war with the chief captains (Alma 52:15). Teancum’s prisoners from the fighting were marched into the land of Bountiful and set to fortify it, digging a ditch around the city and building a breastwork of timbers with dirt cast up against it, encircling the city with a wall of timbers and earth (Alma 53:3-4).
In the war that followed Coriantumr’s capture of Zarahemla, he marched a large army toward the city of Bountiful, meaning to cut through to the north parts of the land; he was headed off and never reached it (Helaman 1:23). Bountiful was also where Nephi and Lehi began their preaching, going out to teach the word of God among the people of Nephi starting at the city of Bountiful (Helaman 5:14).