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Francis, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Kamas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84036. The Survey maps it on the Francis quadrangle. 1,564 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,562 feet above sea level.

Francis within Summit County

On record in Francis

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

2 figures

Francis grew from 1,077 to 1,564 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
20101,077
20201,564+487 (+45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Francis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 122 acres in total. 23 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
Debris and open burning47
Recreation and ceremony27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMRS FIELDS BENCH CREEK
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOODLAND HILLS
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsAUERBACH
27 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSS HILL
23 September 2011Other causesunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOODLAND DUCE
2 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsVICTORY RANCH
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKAMAS CONE
16 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOODLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Francis: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Exploration Investment QuarryGemstonePast ProducerSurface
High Bluff Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerAndesite
Quarry Near Woodland CemeteryStonePast Producer
Webb Hollow MineGoldOccurrence
High Bluff QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface
Woodland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerQuartzite, Sandstone
Chuck No. 1 Thru 15Gold, SilverProducer
Gold Bullion No. 1 Thru 5Gold, SilverProducer
Lucky Strike Nos. 1 Thru 6.Gold, SilverProducer
South Francis Gravel Pit.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Francis in 1 storm report in 2016: 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 2016Thunderstorm WindFrancis$75,000Strong straight-line thunderstorm winds produced significant damage in Samak, Utah, primarily along Samak Park Loop. The winds snapped 10 aspen trees, uprooted a cottonwood tree, lifted and displaced a garage approximately 20 feet, and produced considerable roof damage to multiple other structures.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Kamas2.2 miles23
Woodland3.5 miles24
Samak3.6 miles24
Marion4.6 miles23
Oakley7.3 miles23
Peoa8.5 miles23
Keetley Junction10.6 miles26
Park City11.8 miles26

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 FrancisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482426The 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 1428080. 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.