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Apple Valley, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84737. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithsonian Butte quadrangle. 855 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,961 feet above sea level.

Apple Valley within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Apple Valley grew from 701 to 855 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
2010701
2020855+154 (+22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Apple Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,344 acres in total. 51 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
Natural51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMM 15 SR 59
28 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeLT CK MESA
27 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution2.7 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsAPPLE VALLEY ASST 2
2 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeGRAFTON
2 September 2005Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSMITHSONIA
14 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeHAMMER
25 August 2016Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMITHSONIAN
22 August 2006Natural80 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsT-BONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Apple Valley: 4 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Volcanic Materials, Gemstone, Pumice, 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
Caliente #5Uranium, CopperOccurrenceMalachite
Caliente #5UraniumUnknownSurface
Wright & ThubberVanadium, UraniumOccurrence
Borrow Pit #27022 Utah Dept of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand
Cinder Pit #27021 Utah Dept. of HighwaysVolcanic MaterialsProducerSurface
Cinder Pit #27023 Utah Dept. of HighwaysVolcanic MaterialsPast ProducerSurface
Petrified Wood LocationGemstoneOccurrenceSedimentary
Petrified Wood LocationGemstoneOccurrence
Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit No.27022Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Cinder Pit No.27021PumiceProducer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Big Plain Junction3.0 miles17
Grafton5.8 miles16
Rockville6.7 miles16
Virgin8.9 miles15
Shunesburg9.1 miles16
Springdale9.6 miles16
Hildale10.2 miles15
Hurricane10.6 miles17

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 Apple ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483549The 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 2061574. 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.