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Amalga, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Smithfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84335. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle. 482 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,439 feet above sea level.

Amalga within Cache County

Population over time

2 figures

Amalga fell from 488 to 482 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010488
2020482-6 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Amalga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 696 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Firearms and explosives use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCENTERVILLE V
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCUTLER PEAK
15 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRACK
8 August 1998Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYDE PARK LANE
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMENDANHALL
6 August 2006Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands218
3 August 2016Firearms and explosives useunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeNEWTON GUN RANGE
21 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFIELD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Amalga: 9 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
State Highway Dept No 3009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trenton Gravel Pit # 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trenton Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Highways Pit # 03006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Rejected Pit # 03aSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut. Dept of Highways Pit No. 03011Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut. Dept. of Highways Pit No 03012Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface
Ut. Dept. of Highways Pit No. 03009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amalga in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017Thunderstorm WindAmalga$60,000Thunderstorms along the cold front produced strong winds across the Cache Valley, with a peak recorded gust of 53 mph at the Logan-Cache Airport ASOS. Several damage reports were received across the valley, including nine power poles that were knocked down in Wellsville and two power poles that were knocked over in Amalga. In addition, a 50-foot tree was knocked over and fell onto a mobile home in Smithfield.

Every storm recorded in Cache County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Smithfield3.7 miles18
Cardon3.7 miles18
Quigley Crossing4.5 miles16
Trenton4.6 miles15
Riverside4.7 miles16
Newton5.0 miles16
Benson5.4 miles16
Hyde Park5.9 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AmalgaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483374The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437485. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.