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Bear River City, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Tremonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84301. The Survey maps it on the Bear River City quadrangle. 877 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,259 feet above sea level.

Bear River City within Box Elder County

Population over time

2 figures

Bear River City grew from 853 to 877 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
2010853
2020877+24 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Bear River City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,913 acres in total. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural12
Debris and open burning11
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBear River AreaJUMP
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBENNETTS
4 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPETERSON FIRE
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHARPERS POND
27 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRR CALLSFORT (4)
21 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCORINNE FISHING HOLE
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEXPLORER FIRE
20 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands378

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Bear River City: 8 producers, 8 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Geothermal. 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
Crystal Madsens Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Bakers SpurClayPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Bakers SpurClayPast Producer
B. Hunsaker, #02025 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
B.Hunsaker.PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Buchanan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Buchanan PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Calls Fort PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Calls Fort PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ellis, Bingham PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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
Bradford1.3 miles9
Ford2.4 miles11
Evans2.7 miles11
Honeyville3.0 miles11
Cropley3.6 miles9
Crystal Springs3.8 miles11
Madsen4.0 miles11
Corinne4.5 miles12

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 Bear River CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483098The 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 1438487. 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.