Draper, Utah
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84020. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Draper quadrangle. 51,017 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,505 feet above sea level.
On record in Draper
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 12 of 19 shown
J. R. Allen Houselisted 1980
Reid Beck Houselisted 2012
Crossgrove Houselisted 2012
Draper Park Schoollisted 1980
Draper Poultrymen and Egg Producers' Plantlisted 2004
Fitzgerald House
Perry and Agnes Wadsworth Fitzgerald Houselisted 2004
Perry and Agnes Fitzgerald House and Cabin (Boundary Decrease)listed 2023
Benjamin and Olivia Meek Houselisted 2001
Joseph E. and Mina W. Mickelsen Houselisted 2004
S.J. Mickelsen Hardware Store and Lumber Yardlisted 2004
Nielsen-Sanderson Houselisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresDraper grew from 42,274 to 51,017 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 42,274 | |
| 2020 | 51,017 | +8,743 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 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.
- 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1925 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000
- 1928 USGS Ft. Douglas quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1980 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Draper quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
36 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Draper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,285 acres in total. 10 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 | 13 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | LONE PEAK |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TONYA |
| 19 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BELLS RESERVOIR |
| 16 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WOODS LANDING ASSIST |
| 16 September 1992 | Natural | 30 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | not named |
| 15 September 2015 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | ENNISS PEAK |
| 13 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PRESERVE |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SIENNA |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Draper: 15 producers, 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 1 unknown. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aqueduct Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Crystal Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Dry Hollow Prospects | Iron | Occurrence | Hematite | |
| Rocky Mouth Canyon Adit | Copper, Molybdenum, Lead | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Lower Bells Canyon Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Maple Hollow Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Olivers Siding Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | 1982 | |
| Point of the Mountain Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Salt Lake Valley Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unidentified Occurrence | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Draper in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Lightning | Draper | 1 killed, 2 hurt | no account filed |
| May 1997 | Flash Flood | Draper | $1,200,000 | no account filed |
| September 2023 | Flash Flood | Draper | $15,000 | A broadcast media story and associated video showed localized basement flooding due to heavy rains in the area. No exact addresses were provided, so the flood area is estimated. |
| September 2023 | Flood | Draper | $15,000 | A broadcast media story and associated video showed localized basement flooding due to heavy rains in the area. No exact addresses were provided, so the flood area is estimated. |
| August 1995 | Hail | Draper | - | This thunderstorm dropped golf ball sized hail across portions of Interstate 15. The Utah Highway Patrol reported numerous accidents due to the hail. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Draper | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverton Siding | 2.2 miles | 24 | |
| Crescent | 2.3 miles | 24 | |
| White City | 2.8 miles | 25 | |
| Lampton | 3.1 miles | 24 | |
| Riverton | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Olivers | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| South Jordan | 4.3 miles | 24 | |
| Bluffdale | 4.7 miles | 22 |
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 Draper | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482888 | 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 1427473. 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.









