Collinston, Utah
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Tremonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84306. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cutler Dam quadrangle. It stands 4,432 feet above sea level.
On record in Collinston
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 1 record
Hampton's Ford Stage Stop and Barnlisted 1971
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Hampton's Ford Stage Station, Barn, State Route 154, Collinstonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
- Hampton's Ford Stage Station, State Route 154, Collinstonfederal building survey, 9 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1954 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Cutler Dam quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Tremonton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Cutler Dam quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2022Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
101 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Collinston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,686 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 54 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 197 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CORNWALL |
| 3 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BEAVER DAM 2400 WEST |
| 27 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RANGE BULLS |
| 21 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GARY BEAL |
| 2 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RIVERSIDE |
| 18 September 1999 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LONG DIVIDE II |
| 15 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAG PIE |
| 13 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MALAD RIVER BOTTOMS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Collinston: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 5 producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.A. Capener Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| A.M. Porter Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Aa Capener Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Am.Porter Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Collingston Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand | |
| Collingston Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hansen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Hansen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| L S Capener Location | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| L. Larsen Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
1 since 2025Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collinston in 1 storm report in 2025: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collinston | - | The SR-30 mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fielding | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Riverside | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Beaver Dam | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Garland | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Wheelon | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Deweyville | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Crossroads | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Tremonton | 5.7 miles | 9 |
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 Collinston | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5147453 | 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 1439895. 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.





