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Cottonwood Heights, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84121. It lies near Big Cottonwood Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Draper quadrangle. 33,617 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,823 feet above sea level.

Cottonwood Heights within Salt Lake County

On record in Cottonwood Heights

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

Population over time

2 figures

Cottonwood Heights grew from 33,433 to 33,617 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
201033,433
202033,617+184 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Cottonwood Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 719 acres in total. 25 started naturally. None 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
Natural25
Recreation and ceremony22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2005Natural10 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNORTH DEAF
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGUSON
3 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERGUSON
22 September 2020Natural60 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNEFFS
22 September 2005Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNEFFS WFU
21 September 2020Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestUPPER BROADS FORK
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
19 September 2007Debris and open burning13 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBELLS RESERVOIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 72 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Cottonwood Heights: 33 producers, 24 past producers, 15 occurrences. 33 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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
Blue Jay ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Cottonwood Gold Eagle MineSilver, IronPast Producer1925
Last Dollar MineLeadOccurrenceCalcite, Galena
Lower Bells Canyon WorkingsCopper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Mortand Cement Limestone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Murray Copper and Victor ClaimsCopper, Gold, LeadOccurrence1912
Murry Refractories PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
New State MineSilver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerVein
St. Patrick ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, Gold, AntimonyOccurrenceVein
Temple Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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
Knudsens Corner1.3 miles25
Little Cottonwood Creek Valley1.5 miles25
Cottonwood (historical)2.9 miles25
Union3.3 miles25
Holladay3.5 miles25
Wasatch Resort4.3 miles25
Sandy City4.4 miles24
Dalton4.6 miles25

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 Cottonwood HeightsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482523The 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 1440025. 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.