Castle Dale, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Castle Dale-Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84513. It stands on Bolden Wash. The Survey maps it on the Castle Dale quadrangle. 1,492 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,676 feet above sea level.
On record in Castle Dale
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 7 records
Castle Dale Schoollisted 1978
Paul C. Christensen Houselisted 1980
Peter Johansen Houselisted 1980
San Rafael Bridgelisted 1996
Justis Wellington II Seeley Houselisted 1979- Castle Dale Bridgelisted 2019
- Castle Dale High School Shoplisted 1985
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- San Rafael Bridge, Spanning San Rafael River near Buckhorn Wash, Castle Dalefederal building survey, 17 photographs
Population over time
4 figuresCastle Dale grew from 505 to 1,492 between 1890 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1890 | 505 | |
| 2000 | 1,657 | |
| 2010 | 1,630 | -27 (-2%) |
| 2020 | 1,492 | -138 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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.
- 1885 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
- 1923 USGS Castle Dale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1925 USGS Castle Dale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Manti quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Castle Dale quadrangle1:24000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
12 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Castle Dale between 2001 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | JAKE |
| 12 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAGNUSON 57 |
| 31 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CASTLE DALE |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | COAL |
| 10 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southeast Area | COAL HAUL ROAD |
| 3 June 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Moab Field Office | 1100 SOUTH FARM |
| 16 June 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Moab Field Office | HWY10 MM36 |
| 14 June 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WOOD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Castle Dale: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 5 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar, Buzzard, and Johnson Benches | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Limestone, Sandstone | |
| Cottonwood Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Cottonwood Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Emery Power Plant Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Emery Power Plant Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08014 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08016 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah State Dept of Highways Pit # 08014 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Utah State Highway Dept. Pit 08016 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
4 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Dale in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Castle Dale | $10,000 | TSTM wind gust blew roof off buliding |
| September 2013 | Hail | Castle Dale | - | Hail with a diameter of one inch was reported in Castle Dale. |
| August 2006 | Hail | Castle Dale | - | Nickle to quarter size hail. |
| August 2005 | Hail | Castle Dale | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orangeville | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Clawson | 6.8 miles | 19 | |
| Lawrence | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Huntington | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Molen | 9.0 miles | 19 | |
| Ferron | 10.2 miles | 20 | |
| Ferron Mill | 11.7 miles | 20 | |
| Cleveland | 13.0 miles | 13 |
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 Castle Dale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q130074 | 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 1426380. 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.








