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Fort Duchesne, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84026. It lies near Bottle Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fort Duchesne quadrangle. 546 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,990 feet above sea level.

Fort Duchesne within Uintah County

On record in Fort Duchesne

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 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Fort Duchesne fell from 621 to 546 between 2000 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
2000621
2010714+93 (+15%)
2020546-168 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of Fort Duchesne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 881 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning97
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Fireworks32
Smoking24
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural17
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresVernal Field OfficeSOUTH COTTONWOOD
7 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresUintah and Ouray AgencyGUN RANGE
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWARDCUT
6 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyL CHICAGO
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyCOONSVILLE
30 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresUintah and Ouray AgencyYELLOWSTON
3 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyJAILHOUSE
26 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyFOOTHILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uintah 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
Gusher2.1 miles16
Randlett4.6 miles16
Ballard4.7 miles17
Independence5.1 miles16
Bennett7.3 miles17
Leeton7.8 miles16
Lapoint8.6 miles17
Tridell11.4 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 Fort DuchesneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306698The 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 1428039. 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.