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Fayette, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gunnison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84630. It stands on Fayette Wash. The Survey maps it on the Gunnison quadrangle. 245 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,052 feet above sea level.

Fayette within Sanpete County

Population over time

2 figures

Fayette grew from 242 to 245 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
2010242
2020245+3 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Fayette between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,484 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives 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
3 September 2012Natural59 acresRichfield Field OfficeAXE HANDLE 2
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRichfield Field OfficePATH FINDER
22 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUPER 8
18 September 2016Firearms and explosives useunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeMELLOR CANYON
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAYES
1 September 1999Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeSOUTH YUBA
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeROUGH CNYN
7 August 1998Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeSPRING CYN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Fayette: 12 past producers, 10 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Gold. 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
Fayette Springs Gold ProspectGoldPast Producer
Gunnison Limestone ProspectsStonePast Producer
Hot Spot & Cotton #1 PropertiesUraniumOccurrence
Gunnison Limestone ProspectsStone, DimensionOccurrenceLimestone
Gunnison Sec. 35 QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerCalcite
Gunnison Sec. 5 QuarryStone, DimensionOccurrenceCalcite
Fayette Cemetary Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand, Sandstone
Fayette Cemetary Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fayette Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Fayette Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fayette in 1 storm report in 2026: 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindFayette-The Gunnison Ridge mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Gunnison5.2 miles15
Christianburg7.1 miles15
Centerfield7.2 miles15
Spearmint8.3 miles15
Sterling9.0 miles16
Mayfield10.9 miles16
Axtell11.9 miles15
Manti12.0 miles15

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 FayetteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483439The 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 1427897. 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.