Boulder Town, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Escalante census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84716. It lies near Nazer Draw. The Survey maps it on the Boulder Town quadrangle. 227 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,703 feet above sea level.
On record in Boulder Town
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 within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Coombs Village Sitelisted 1976 · 0.1 miles away- Boulder Elementary Schoollisted 1985 · 0.0 miles away
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Capitol Reef National Park Roads & Bridges, Along State Route 24 between Torrey & Cainesville, Torreyfederal building survey, 3 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresBoulder Town grew from 226 to 227 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 | 226 | |
| 2020 | 227 | +1 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1956 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Boulder Town quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 2002 USGS Boulder Town quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
34 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Boulder Town between 1992 and 2018, burning about 20 acres in total. 32 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 | 32 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | BALANCING ROCK |
| 16 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | AIRPORT |
| 13 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | LONG NECK |
| 7 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | BOULDER CREEK |
| 5 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | OGDEN |
| 4 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | MOUNT OGDEN |
| 28 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | SNEAK |
| 20 August 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | SADIE'S NIPPLE |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 35 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Boulder Town: 31 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elenora #1 | Uranium, Vanadium | Producer | ||
| Big Hollow | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Occurrence | Anhydrite, Gypsum | |
| Big Hollow | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Past Producer | ||
| New Home Bench | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| New Home Bench | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Betty Jack | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Black Cat #2 | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Black Mtn. | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Blue Ribbon | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Buff | Uranium | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escalante | 13.5 miles | 17 | |
| Osiris | 29.6 miles | 17 | |
| Widtsoe | 30.8 miles | 16 | |
| Widtsoe Junction | 31.2 miles | 14 | |
| Eggnog | 32.0 miles | 19 | |
| Antimony | 33.8 miles | 17 | |
| Henrieville | 38.5 miles | 15 | |
| Tropic | 40.0 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 Boulder Town | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483367 | 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 1437510. 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.





