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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.

Boulder Town within Garfield County

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.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Boulder 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.

YearPeople Change
2010226
2020227+1 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 19 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

34 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural32
Debris and open burning2

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 2007Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestBALANCING ROCK
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestAIRPORT
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestLONG NECK
7 August 2004Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestBOULDER CREEK
5 August 2018Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestOGDEN
4 August 2001Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestMOUNT OGDEN
28 August 1994Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestSNEAK
20 August 1992Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestSADIE'S NIPPLE

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elenora #1Uranium, VanadiumProducer
Big HollowGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceAnhydrite, Gypsum
Big HollowGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
New Home BenchStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
New Home BenchStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Betty JackUraniumProducer
Black Cat #2UraniumProducer
Black Mtn.UraniumProducer
Blue RibbonUraniumProducer
BuffUraniumProducer

Every working recorded in Garfield 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
Escalante13.5 miles17
Osiris29.6 miles17
Widtsoe30.8 miles16
Widtsoe Junction31.2 miles14
Eggnog32.0 miles19
Antimony33.8 miles17
Henrieville38.5 miles15
Tropic40.0 miles15

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 TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483367The 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.