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Delta, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Delta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84624. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle. 3,622 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,639 feet above sea level.

Delta within Millard County

On record in Delta

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Delta grew from 3,436 to 3,622 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
20103,436
20203,622+186 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,478 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
5 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral AreaEAST DELTA
26 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCORBIN FIRE
7 August 2013Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJOHNSON FARM
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands51 25 JUNCTION
21 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHARPE FIRE
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeHOLMAN
14 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral Area4000
10 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands30 FOOT DITCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Delta: 6 producers, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 6 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Delta Cemetary East Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delta Cemetary North Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Delta Cemetary North Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delta Cemetery East Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Delta Gravel Pit #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Delta Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Delta Gravel Pit No.5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Delta Gravel Pit No.6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit 14069Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14072Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delta in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2014: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2002Thunderstorm WindDelta$2,000no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindDelta$50Thunderstorms developed along and behind the cold front as it continued to move south through the state. These thunderstorms moved eastward very slowly, and produced two different severe wind gusts. Some minor damage occurred in the eastern portion of the county. Shingles were blown off a few homes along with some tree limbs torn off.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindDelta-The Delta Bus Garage sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindDelta-The A-Paid observer in Delta reported a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindDelta-A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 61 mph (53 kts) in Delta.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindDelta-A severe thunderstorm in Delta produced a wind gust of 58 mph (50 kts).
September 1998Funnel CloudDelta-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Delta-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDelta-no account filed
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDelta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Millard 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
Sutherland3.9 miles16
Oasis4.9 miles16
Hinckley5.3 miles16
Deseret6.0 miles16
Harding7.4 miles16
Strong8.0 miles16
Abraham8.1 miles16
Sugarville8.7 miles16

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 DeltaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482416The 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 1427334. 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.