Croydon, Utah
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Morgan North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84018. It lies near Little Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Devils Slide quadrangle. It stands 5,344 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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 Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Devils Slide quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Morgan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Devils Slide quadrangle1:24000
- 1997 USGS Devils Slide quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
104 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Croydon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,880 acres in total. 14 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2008 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HILLCLIMB |
| 6 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TOOME |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HAMS CANYON ASSIST |
| 3 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POWER BUMP |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 185 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HENEFER HORSESHOE |
| 29 September 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SPEED DEMON |
| 19 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TAGGART FIRE |
| 17 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WILD LOCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Croydon: 7 producers, 5 occurrences, 5 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Fork | Uranium | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Devils Slide Quarry and Plant | Limestone, General | Producer | Surface | |
| Tunnel Hollow and Mine Hollow Prosp | Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Victoria No. 1 | Copper, Barium-Barite, Lead | Occurrence | Barite | |
| Anderton Clay Pits | Clay | Producer | 1913 | |
| Anderton Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Devil S Slide Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Devils Slide Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Devil'm Slide Phosphate Locality | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | CHEMICAL SEDIMENT | |
| Devils Slide Phosphate Locality | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Croydon in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Croydon | $50,000 | Lost Creek reached flood stage for the last week of May. Multiple bridges along Lost Creek were impacted by rising flood waters, and low lying roads were damaged as well. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Croydon | - | The Stokes Canyon mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Croydon | - | A peak wind gust of 58 mph was reported at I-84 at Devil's Slide. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devils Slide | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Taggarts | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Como Springs | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Morgan | 8.9 miles | 13 | |
| Richville | 10.2 miles | 13 | |
| Stoddard | 10.5 miles | 13 | |
| Porterville | 10.6 miles | 23 | |
| Littleton | 11.0 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 Croydon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5189638 | 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 1427128. 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.







