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Deseret, 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 Hinckley quadrangle. 327 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,590 feet above sea level.

Deseret within Millard County

On record in Deseret

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Deseret fell from 353 to 327 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
2010353
2020327-26 (-7%)

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

31 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Deseret between 1993 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTYLER FARM
21 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral AreaWEST HINCKLEY
2 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVER BANK
6 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOODY FARM
5 August 2020Debris and open burning3.8 acresCentral AreaMUD FORT
4 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral Area257
22 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOASIS
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeHOLMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Deseret: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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
Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit 14074Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit #14074Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deseret in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024Funnel CloudDeseret-Videos and pictures were received via social media of a moderately sized rotating funnel cloud extending approximately halfway down from cloud base to ground near Delta. Location estimated based upon video and associated description.

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
Oasis1.4 miles16
Hinckley2.8 miles16
Van4.0 miles13
Delta6.0 miles16
Sutherland7.1 miles16
Abraham8.3 miles16
Harding10.0 miles16
Sugarville12.3 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 DeseretAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5263865The 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 1427343. 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.