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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.

Castle Dale within Emery County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Castle 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.

YearPeople Change
1890505
20001,657
20101,630-27 (-2%)
20201,492-138 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

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.

San Rafael Bridge, Spanning San Rafael River near Buckhorn Wash, Castle Dale, Emery County, UT
San Rafael Bridge, Spanning San Rafael River near Buckhorn Wash, Castle Dale, Emery County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

12 since 2001

Regional 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 burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJAKE
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAGNUSON 57
31 August 2006Debris and open burning1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCASTLE DALE
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCOAL
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSoutheast AreaCOAL HAUL ROAD
3 June 2016Debris and open burning2.5 acresMoab Field Office1100 SOUTH FARM
16 June 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMoab Field OfficeHWY10 MM36
14 June 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cedar, Buzzard, and Johnson BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Cottonwood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cottonwood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Emery Power Plant Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Emery Power Plant Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah State Dept of Highways Pit # 08014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Utah State Highway Dept. Pit 08016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindCastle Dale$10,000TSTM wind gust blew roof off buliding
September 2013HailCastle Dale-Hail with a diameter of one inch was reported in Castle Dale.
August 2006HailCastle Dale-Nickle to quarter size hail.
August 2005HailCastle Dale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Emery 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
Orangeville2.1 miles19
Clawson6.8 miles19
Lawrence7.5 miles15
Huntington8.4 miles15
Molen9.0 miles19
Ferron10.2 miles20
Ferron Mill11.7 miles20
Cleveland13.0 miles13

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 DaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q130074The 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.