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East Carbon City, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Carbon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84520. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. 1,556 people lived here at the 2020 count.

East Carbon City within Carbon County

Population over time

2 figures

East Carbon City grew from 1,301 to 1,556 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
20101,301
20201,556+255 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of East Carbon City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,802 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUNNYSIDE
10 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeWATER CANYON
7 August 2014Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTANK
30 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeFAN
21 August 2002Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeA CANYON
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined107 acresSoutheast AreaWATER CANYON
12 August 2005Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOLUMBIA
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresMoab Field OfficeICELANDER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Carbon City in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flash 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
September 2016Flash FloodEast Carbon City$4,000,000Multiple rounds of heavy rainfall brought widespread flooding to Carbon County. Significant flooding occurred in Wellington near 100 East, and severe damage was reported to approximately 10 homes. In Carbonville, the Pilling Trailer Park received extensive flooding, forcing the evacuation of 80 different mobile homes. Flooding also occurred in Sunnyside, with widespread street flooding causing manhole covers to pop up across the city. The Price River also experienced significant flooding, with flow along the river jumping from the normal flow of less than 10 cfs to greater than 8,000 cfs. In total across the county, flooding damaged over 140 private homes, several businesses, and many local roads. County officials reported uninsured damages of $1,602,000 to infrastructure, $971,000 in damage to businesses, and $1,071,000 to private property.
June 2025HailEast Carbon City$20,000Penny to quarter size hail was reported in Sunnyside.
July 2010Flash FloodEast Carbon City-Flash flooding occurred in Bottom, Gate, and Cottonwood Canyons. Bulldozers had to clean off nearby roads to open them for business, and some tourists had to be rescued.
August 2006HailEast Carbon City-Penny to nickle size hail

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Dragerton (historical)0.5 miles20
Sunnydale1.2 miles20
Sunnyside1.5 miles20
Columbia Junction1.9 miles20
Upper Sunnyside2.6 miles20
Columbia (historical)2.7 miles20
Bruin Point7.4 miles20
Sunnyside Junction8.5 miles18

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 East Carbon CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483387The 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 1455874. 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.

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.