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.
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
Eureka City Cemeterylisted 1979
Knight Grain Elevatorlisted 1979
Tintic Smelter Sitelisted 1979
US Post Office-Eureka Mainlisted 1989- Centennial-Eureka Minelisted 1979
- Eagle and Blue Bell Minelisted 1979
- Eureka Historic Districtlisted 1979
- Fitch Cemeterylisted 1979
- Knightsville School Foundationlisted 1979
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Bullion Beck & Champion Mine, Headframe, Tintic Mining District, Eurekafederal building survey, 9 photographs
- Eureka Post Office, 205 Main, southeast corner of Main & Wallace Alley, Eurekafederal building survey, 17 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresEureka 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 669 | |
| 2020 | 662 | -7 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1885 USGS Sevier Desert quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1949 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Lynndyl quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Eureka quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
60 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 260 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | WATERWELL |
| 6 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GREAT EASTERN |
| 23 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | EUREKA S CURVE |
| 20 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | JUNCTION TREE |
| 11 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | PINYON C2 |
| 10 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Richfield Field Office | DAGMAR |
| 1 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.7 acres | Richfield Field Office | LONESOME PINE |
| 9 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | KEG SP. |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 412 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajax Mine | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Apex Standard Mine | Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1923 | |
| Beck Tunnel Consolidated Mining Co | Silver, Manganese, Lead, Gold, Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Bingham Mines Co? Adits | Lead, Cadmium, Silver | Occurrence | Surface/Underground | |
| Black Dragon | Gold, Silver, Clay | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Black Jack | Silver, Iron, Manganese, Gold | Past Producer | Contact Metasomatic | |
| Boss Tweed Mine | Copper, Bismuth, Silver, Gold, Antimony, Lead, Arsenic | Prospect | Replacement | |
| Brooklyn and Wedgewood Group | Manganese, Clay, Iron | Occurrence | Surface/Underground | |
| Bullion Beck and Champion | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Bullion-Beck | Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1882 |
Storms near this place
1 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eureka | - | Measured by Tintic HS AWS sensor |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knightville | 1.0 miles | 17 | |
| Mammoth Junction | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Mammoth | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Tintic Junction | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Silver City | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Knight | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Diamond | 5.1 miles | 17 | |
| Dennis | 8.6 miles | 16 |
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 Eureka | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482398 | 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 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.







