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Avon, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hyrum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84328. It lies near Paradise Dry Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Paradise quadrangle. 390 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,020 feet above sea level.

Avon within Cache County

Population over time

2 figures

Avon grew from 367 to 390 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
2010367
2020390+23 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Avon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 385 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use5

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
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEST CANYON
30 August 2019Natural1.8 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYRUM DRY
28 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use9.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEST CANYON 2
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLIMEKILN
22 August 2003Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPARADISE NORTH
22 August 2003Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPARADISE SOUTH
21 August 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFOUR MILE
21 August 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFORK SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Avon: 8 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Iron, Zinc, Lead. 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
Hyrum Canyon ClaimIron, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceGalena, Jarosite, Marcasite, Siderite, Sphalerite
Hyrum Canyon ClaimLead, Zinc, IronPast Producer
Lead KingSilver, LeadOccurrenceReplacement
Highway Dept Pit No 3026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
McKenzie Flat PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
McKenzie Flat PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
North Paradise PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
North Paradise PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Ut. Dept. of Highways Pit No. 03026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avon in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2017FloodAvon$4,000,000Significant rainfall and snowmelt caused main stem river flooding along the Bear River, and also overwhelmed drainage systems away from the river across much of Cache County. Many roads were flooded and structurally compromised, with over $2.5 million worth of damage reported to roads alone. Debris and flood waters also caused significant damage to sewage and water control systems. Dozens of homes experienced basement flooding, particularly in Wellsville, Hyrum, and Mendon.
March 2017FloodAvon-The Little Bear River reached flood stage at multiple gauges in the Cache Valley. This included the Little Bear - Paradise river gauge, which reached a peak flow of 1340 cfs on March 23.
April 2005Flash FloodAvon-Brief flash flood damaged 2 homes, amount unknown

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
Paradise2.8 miles18
Hyrum7.3 miles17
Mount Sterling8.4 miles19
Greens Corner9.4 miles17
Wellsville9.7 miles17
Nibley9.8 miles17
Holt10.0 miles17
Millville10.3 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 AvonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3198863The 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 1438313. 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.