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Aneth, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Casa del Eco Mesa-White Mesa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84534. It stands on McElmo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Aneth quadrangle. 427 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,511 feet above sea level.

Aneth within San Juan County

On record in Aneth

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 4 records

Population over time

3 figures

Aneth fell from 598 to 427 between 2000 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
2000598
2010501-97 (-16%)
2020427-74 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

4 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Square Tower Group, Hovenweep House, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Square Tower Group, Hovenweep House, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Square Tower Group, Hovenweep Castle, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Square Tower Group, Hovenweep Castle, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Square Tower Group, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Square Tower Group, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Square Tower Group, Square Tower, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Square Tower Group, Square Tower, Near park headquarters, Aneth, San Juan County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Aneth between 1997 and 2018, burning about 99 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle 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
25 September 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementE. ANETH 2
19 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementANETH
5 July 2005Smokingunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsANETH STORE
25 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROCKWELL SPRING
16 July 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMITCHELL 1
10 July 2017Equipment and vehicle use20 acresNavajo Region Fire and Aviation ManagementHATCH TRADING
10 July 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHATCH TRADING
5 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMC ELMO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Aneth: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Aneth 1UraniumUnknown1954
Gravel Deposit # 19037Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerQuartzite, Sandstone
Utah Dept of Highways Pit No 19037Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aneth in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 heavy rain, 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAneth-A trained spotter reported three downed power lines across Utah State Highway 162, caused by wind gusts estimated to be around 64 mph. A semi-truck then became entangled in the downed power lines.
September 2012Heavy RainAneth-An official observer reported 1.20 inches of rainfall over a 24 hour period ending at 8 am.

Every storm recorded in San Juan 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
White Rock Curve Village5.6 miles19
Red Lake Village7.4 miles19
White Mesa Village7.6 miles19
Montezuma Creek8.0 miles20
Bluff19.9 miles22
Little Water20.8 miles20
Tselakai Dezza22.2 miles20
White Mesa22.8 miles20

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 AnethAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2745147The 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 1437486. 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.