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Eureka, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84628. It lies near Keystone Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Eureka quadrangle. 662 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,430 feet above sea level.

Eureka within Juab County

On record in Eureka

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 9 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Eureka fell from 669 to 662 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
2010669
2020662-7 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

2 photographs,

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.

Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Bullion Beck & Champion Mine, Headframe, Tintic Mining District, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Bullion Beck & Champion Mine, Headframe, Tintic Mining District, Eureka, Juab County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Eureka between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,888 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 4 were 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
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution260 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeWATERWELL
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGREAT EASTERN
23 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEUREKA S CURVE
20 September 2014Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNCTION TREE
11 September 1997Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficePINYON C2
10 September 2003Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeDAGMAR
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresRichfield Field OfficeLONESOME PINE
9 August 2003Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKEG SP.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 412 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 412 workings within 5 miles of Eureka: 213 past producers, 166 occurrences, 16 prospects, 16 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Gold, Lead, Silver, Iron. 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
Ajax MineCopper, Lead, Silver, Gold, IronOccurrence
Apex Standard MineSilver, Manganese, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1923
Beck Tunnel Consolidated Mining CoSilver, Manganese, Lead, Gold, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Bingham Mines Co? AditsLead, Cadmium, SilverOccurrenceSurface/Underground
Black DragonGold, Silver, ClayOccurrenceReplacement
Black JackSilver, Iron, Manganese, GoldPast ProducerContact Metasomatic
Boss Tweed MineCopper, Bismuth, Silver, Gold, Antimony, Lead, ArsenicProspectReplacement
Brooklyn and Wedgewood GroupManganese, Clay, IronOccurrenceSurface/Underground
Bullion Beck and ChampionSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Bullion-BeckGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer1882

Every working recorded in Juab County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eureka in 1 storm report in 2005: 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 2005Thunderstorm WindEureka-Measured by Tintic HS AWS sensor

Every storm recorded in Juab 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
Knightville1.0 miles17
Mammoth Junction1.9 miles16
Mammoth1.9 miles16
Tintic Junction2.8 miles16
Silver City3.1 miles16
Knight4.1 miles16
Diamond5.1 miles17
Dennis8.6 miles16

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 EurekaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482398The 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 1437974. 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.