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Brigham City, Utah

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brigham City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84302. It lies near Bott Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Brigham City quadrangle. 19,650 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,436 feet above sea level.

Brigham City within Box Elder County

On record in Brigham City

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 12 of 27 shown

Every listing in Box Elder County

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

Population over time

8 figures

Brigham City grew from 975 to 19,650 between 1860 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
1860975
18701,315+340 (+35%)
18801,877+562 (+43%)
18902,139+262 (+14%)
19002,989+850 (+40%)
19103,887+898 (+30%)
201017,899
202019,650+1,751 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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,

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.

Roxy Theatre, 106 South Main Street, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT
Roxy Theatre, 106 South Main Street, Brigham City, Box Elder County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Brigham City between 1992 and 2019, burning about 809 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOMANCHE
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD RESERVIOR
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEIGHTY NINE FIRE
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUS FISH & WILDLIFE
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMANTUA WEST
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
21 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBear River Migratory Bird RefugeWELDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Brigham City: 30 past producers, 14 producers, 4 occurrences. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Clay, Antimony. 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
BakerLead, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerReplacement
Baker MineZinc, Silver, LeadPast ProducerUnderground
Copper BlossomCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceReplacement
Copper BlossomZinc, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Dry Lake AntimonyAntimony, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Dry Lake AntimonyAntimony, SilverPast Producer
Homber MinesGraphite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceLead, Malachite, Schist
Homber MinesZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, CoalPast Producer
Silver EagleSilver, Copper, LeadPast ProducerVein
Silver EagleSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brigham City in 7 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2004HailBrigham City$24,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindBrigham City$1,500A carport was blown down in Brigham City.
June 2016HailBrigham City-Hail with a diameter of one inch was reported in Brigham City.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindBrigham City-Mesonet
May 1995HailBrigham City-A severe thunderstorm put down hail up to one inch in diameter at the Thiokol plant.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBrigham City-Microburst thunderstorm winds did minor damage in Wendover as shingles were blown off the Port of Entry building. In Brigham City, several trees were blown down.
April 2005Heavy RainBrigham City-no account filed

Every storm 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
Perry3.3 miles11
Mantua3.9 miles13
Corinne5.8 miles12
Willard7.1 miles11
Bear River City9.3 miles11
Honeyville9.5 miles11
Nerva9.9 miles12
South Willard10.2 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 Brigham CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482976The 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 1439109. 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.