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.
Population over time
2 figuresEast 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,301 | |
| 2020 | 1,556 | +255 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 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.
- 1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
- 1915 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Price quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SUNNYSIDE |
| 10 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | WATER CANYON |
| 7 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | TANK |
| 30 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | FAN |
| 21 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | A CANYON |
| 2 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 107 acres | Southeast Area | WATER CANYON |
| 12 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | COLUMBIA |
| 11 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.2 acres | Moab Field Office | ICELANDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | East Carbon City | $4,000,000 | Multiple 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 2025 | Hail | East Carbon City | $20,000 | Penny to quarter size hail was reported in Sunnyside. |
| July 2010 | Flash Flood | East 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 2006 | Hail | East Carbon City | - | Penny to nickle size hail |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragerton (historical) | 0.5 miles | 20 | |
| Sunnydale | 1.2 miles | 20 | |
| Sunnyside | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Columbia Junction | 1.9 miles | 20 | |
| Upper Sunnyside | 2.6 miles | 20 | |
| Columbia (historical) | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Bruin Point | 7.4 miles | 20 | |
| Sunnyside Junction | 8.5 miles | 18 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483387 | 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 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.







