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Elmo, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Castle Dale-Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84521. The Survey maps it on the Elmo quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,692 feet above sea level.

Elmo within Emery County

On record in Elmo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Elmo fell from 418 to 405 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
2010418
2020405-13 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Mounds Bridge, County Road 115 Spanning Price River, 12 miles Northeast of Elmo, Elmo, Emery County, UT
Mounds Bridge, County Road 115 Spanning Price River, 12 miles Northeast of Elmo, Elmo, Emery County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Elmo between 2007 and 2018, burning about 24 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 August 2016Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficePETERSON LANE
15 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGARDNER
6 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeDITCH
19 July 2015Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeELMO
17 July 2007Natural1.3 acresMoab Field OfficeDESERT LAKE
22 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresMoab Field OfficeTIMOTHY WASH
26 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.3 acresMoab Field Office800 E
10 April 2012Debris and open burning6.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsELMO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Elmo: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 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
Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerLimestone, Sandstone
Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit 08003Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerLimestone
Mathis Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Mathis Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wildcat Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Wildcat Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmo in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindElmo-A wind gust of 60 mph was measured at the Wellington Ameriflux Site.

Every storm recorded in Emery 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
Cleveland3.4 miles13
Victor5.3 miles14
Lawrence8.9 miles15
Huntington9.0 miles15
Mohrland11.2 miles20
Castle Dale16.4 miles19
Orangeville16.9 miles19
Cedar19.1 miles17

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 ElmoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482431The 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 1427806. 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.