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Daniel, Utah

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Heber City South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84032. It lies near Big Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle. 916 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,715 feet above sea level.

Daniel within Wasatch County

Population over time

2 figures

Daniel fell from 938 to 916 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
2010938
2020916-22 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Daniel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 737 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined63
Debris and open burning53
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural18
Fireworks17
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism2

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSWEAT
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER ASSIST 2
6 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMITH FIRE
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWALLBURG 1/2 MILE 189
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEER CREEK RAINBOW BAY
30 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMIDWAY 6TH SO.
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyBWALLOW1
24 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER CREEPER 6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Daniel: 8 producers, 8 past producers, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, High Calcium. 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
Limestone Borrow Pit.Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Midway Hot PotGeothermalUnknown
Midway Tufa QuarriesLimestone, High CalciumPast ProducerCalcite
Big Hollow Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerQuartzite
Charleston Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerLimestone, Quartzite
Center Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Wasatch County

Storms near this place

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daniel in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
August 2024FloodDaniel$15,000Reports, videos, and webcams showed several flooded roads.
August 2024HailDaniel$1,000A CoCoRaHS observer reported 1 inch diameter hail.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDaniel$1,000A large and healthy tree was snapped off near its base at the Heber City police station.

Every storm recorded in Wasatch 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
Heber City2.5 miles26
Charleston2.9 miles21
Center Creek3.1 miles22
Midway4.3 miles26
Mountain Spa4.7 miles26
Mound City5.6 miles26
Wallsburg5.7 miles21
Interlaken5.8 miles26

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 DanielAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483162The 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 1455872. 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.