Big Water, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kanab census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84741. It lies near Jacobs Tanks Draw. The Survey maps it on the Big Water quadrangle. 449 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,108 feet above sea level.

Big Water within Kane County

Population over time

2 figures

Big Water fell from 475 to 449 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.

Year	People	Change
2010	475
2020	449	-26 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1886 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Nipple Butte quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Glen Canyon City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Smoky Mountain quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Big Water between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	MM4 HWY89
6 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HWY89MM12
4 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	WHITE LEDGE
11 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	FLAT TOP
7 July 2013	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WELLS
5 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Glen Canyon National Recreation Area	MM3 HWY 89
29 July 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	SHORT
27 July 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	BIGWATER

Every fire recorded in Kane County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Big Water: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13024	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13025	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13026	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13024	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13025	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Limestone, Sand
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13026	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Kane 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Paria	18.9 miles	19
Georgetown	37.5 miles	16
Kanab	45.7 miles	17
Alton	49.8 miles	14
Glendale	52.0 miles	15
Long Valley Junction	52.9 miles	16
Orderville	53.3 miles	15
Mount Carmel	54.2 miles	15

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 Big Water	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483406	The 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 1455970. 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.