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Fountain Green, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84632. It lies near Big Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Green North quadrangle. 1,197 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,899 feet above sea level.

Fountain Green within Sanpete County

On record in Fountain Green

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fountain Green grew from 1,071 to 1,197 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
20101,071
20201,197+126 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Green between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49,060 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 3 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
4 September 2005Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOLLY'S PEAK
29 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAPT. LARSON
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1,586 acresRichfield Field OfficePOLLYS PEAK
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral AreaJERUSALEM
12 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTARLING
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROTHERSON
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCACTI
9 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHWY 132

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fountain Green: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
North Fountain Green Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20012Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20013Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept.Highways,Pit No.20015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Green in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2014: 5 flash flood, 2 debris flow. 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
July 2012Flash FloodFountain Green$100,000A large debris flow occurred at the Wood Hollow burn scar. This debris flow damaged multiple homes, with two homes in particular receiving significant damage. The main damage was caused by mud flowing into basements, with one home having muddy water pooled as much as 8 feet deep in the basement. In addition, the debris crossed over State Route 132 and closed the road for several hours.
July 2007Flash FloodFountain Green$25,000Debris from the Salt Creek burn scar pushed mud and debris into several homes in Fountain Green. Damage amounts were estimated as clean-up costs.
July 2012Flash FloodFountain Green$20,000An ash flow was reported after heavy rain fell over the Wood Hollow burn scar. Parts of Wood Hollow Road were washed out due to this flash flood.
August 2014Flash FloodFountain Green-Utah State Route 132 was temporarily closed at Milepost 37 due to flooding and debris on the roadway.
August 2013Debris FlowFountain Green-A large debris flow came off of the Wood Hollow Fire burn scar following heavy rainfall. The flow was generally 3 feet deep, and ran 4 miles out of the burn scar, but did not impact the town of Fountain Green.
August 2013Debris FlowFountain Green-Heavy rain over the Wood Hollow Fire burn scar resulted in a debris flow, with mud crossing over State Route 132 between Fountain Green and Moroni.
July 2007Flash FloodFountain Green-Heavy rain once again produced a debris flow on the Salt Creek scar. In 15 minutes, 0.97 in rainfall was recorded at a local RAWS.

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
Jerusalem4.7 miles19
Freedom6.1 miles19
Moroni7.6 miles18
Wales9.9 miles16
Fairview10.4 miles16
Hill Top10.5 miles16
Oak Creek11.1 miles16
Mount Pleasant11.1 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 Fountain GreenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483210The 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 1441187. 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.