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Bryce Canyon City, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Tropic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84764. It lies near Syrett Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Bryce Canyon quadrangle. 336 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,662 feet above sea level.

Bryce Canyon City within Garfield County

Population over time

2 figures

Bryce Canyon City grew from 198 to 336 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
2010198
2020336+138 (+70%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Bryce Canyon City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 45 acres in total. 57 started naturally. 1 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
Natural57
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkDUMP
4 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMERYLS BNC
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkSUNRISE
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkBRYCE CR
26 September 2019Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestDAVES HOLLOW
22 September 1992Naturalunder an acreBryce Canyon National ParkSMUDGE
2 September 2006Natural1.0 acresBryce Canyon National ParkSHIP
19 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDixie National ForestBOUNDARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Bryce Canyon City: 21 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport Borrow Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Airport Borrow Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Airport Borrow Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Airport Borrow Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pit No 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Airport Borrow Pits #4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Emery Valley Borrow Pit #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Emory Valley Borrow Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Bryce Canyon3.2 miles15
Tropic5.2 miles15
Cannonville9.2 miles16
Henrieville11.5 miles15
Hillsdale12.3 miles16
Widtsoe Junction13.6 miles14
Widtsoe13.9 miles16
Hatch14.8 miles16

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 Bryce Canyon CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483332The 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 2371469. 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.