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Bicknell, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Loa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84715. It lies near Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Bicknell quadrangle. 323 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,123 feet above sea level.

Bicknell within Wayne County

On record in Bicknell

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

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bicknell fell from 327 to 323 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
2010327
2020323-4 (-1%)

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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2022

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.

The remodeled, part Streamline, part pueblo-style Bicknell Theater and Reel Bites Cafe in the western U.S. state of Utah
The remodeled, part Streamline, part pueblo-style Bicknell Theater and Reel Bites Cafe in the western U.S. state of Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Bicknell between 1992 and 2017, burning about 30 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestBRISTLECONE
26 September 2000Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeCOZY COVE
27 August 1996Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestLOOKOUT
26 August 2010Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeBLACK RIDGE
20 August 2013Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeBRONX
7 July 2001Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSADDLE PASS
6 July 1999Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestJENSEN
28 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestBURNT SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bicknell: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Black Ridge GypsumGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceAlabaster
Black Ridge GysumGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Collins ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
Collins ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumUnknown
Big Hollow Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Big Hollow Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Durfee Canyon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Durfee Canyon Gravel Pit.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Rabbit Valley Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bicknell in 3 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 3 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
August 2023Flash FloodBicknell$1,000Flooding was reported in the town of Bicknell, with water flowing across streets.
August 2001Flash FloodBicknell-Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the Bicknell and Torrey areas. Flood waters spilled across Highway 24, and also reached the Capitol Reef National Park area as a six foot wall of water down Hall's Creek.
July 2004Flash FloodBicknell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Lyman4.6 miles19
Teasdale5.2 miles22
Loa6.8 miles18
Torrey7.2 miles22
Fremont9.0 miles19
Grover12.9 miles22
Fruita16.2 miles20
Notom23.7 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 BicknellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483720The 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 1438623. 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.