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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.

Croydon within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

104 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning25
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes2
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
8 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHILLCLIMB
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTOOME
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAMS CANYON ASSIST
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOWER BUMP
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined185 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHENEFER HORSESHOE
29 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSPEED DEMON
19 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTAGGART FIRE
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILD LOCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Arthur ForkUraniumOccurrenceVein
Devils Slide Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralProducerSurface
Tunnel Hollow and Mine Hollow ProspCopperPast Producer
Victoria No. 1Copper, Barium-Barite, LeadOccurrenceBarite
Anderton Clay PitsClayProducer1913
Anderton MineClayProducer
Devil S Slide QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Devils Slide PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Devil'm Slide Phosphate LocalityPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrenceCHEMICAL SEDIMENT
Devils Slide Phosphate LocalityPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011FloodCroydon$50,000Lost 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCroydon-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 2018Thunderstorm WindCroydon-A peak wind gust of 58 mph was reported at I-84 at Devil's Slide.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Devils Slide1.6 miles12
Taggarts4.2 miles12
Como Springs7.8 miles13
Morgan8.9 miles13
Richville10.2 miles13
Stoddard10.5 miles13
Porterville10.6 miles23
Littleton11.0 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 CroydonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5189638The 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.