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.
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
- Mounds Bridge, County Road 115 Spanning Price River, 12 miles Northeast of Elmo, Elmofederal building survey, 8 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresElmo 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 418 | |
| 2020 | 405 | -13 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Elmo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
10 since 2007Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | PETERSON LANE |
| 15 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GARDNER |
| 6 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | DITCH |
| 19 July 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | ELMO |
| 17 July 2007 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Moab Field Office | DESERT LAKE |
| 22 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Moab Field Office | TIMOTHY WASH |
| 26 April 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.3 acres | Moab Field Office | 800 E |
| 10 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ELMO |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Limestone, Sandstone | |
| Gravel Deposit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit 08003 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Limestone | |
| Mathis Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Mathis Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wildcat Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Wildcat Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2022Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elmo | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was measured at the Wellington Ameriflux Site. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Victor | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lawrence | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Huntington | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Mohrland | 11.2 miles | 20 | |
| Castle Dale | 16.4 miles | 19 | |
| Orangeville | 16.9 miles | 19 | |
| Cedar | 19.1 miles | 17 |
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 Elmo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482431 | 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 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.






