Garden City, Utah
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Garden City-Laketown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84028. It lies in Garden City Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle. 602 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,968 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGarden City grew from 562 to 602 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 | 562 | |
| 2020 | 602 | +40 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1912 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Logan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
25 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1992 and 2018, burning about 13 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CAMPER WORLD |
| 2 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | CRAB RIDGE |
| 10 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HODGES FIRE |
| 6 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HODGES CANYON |
| 24 August 2002 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAD COON |
| 19 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | STABLE |
| 14 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | EZ CAR |
| 10 August 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HODGES CANYON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Garden City: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Lake Summit Limestone Pit | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Hodge's Canyon | Iron, Barium-Barite, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Johnson Ready Mix Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Surface | |
| Victoria No 1 Prospect | Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite | Prospect | Vein | |
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Flood | Garden City | $250,000 | Heavy rain and snowmelt overwhelmed drainage systems in portions of Rich County. A 10 to 15 foot section of a canal was breached near Garden City, leading to flooding in several homes. Eleven homes were also flooded in Laketown, and water flowed over multiple area roadways, including State Route 16 between Randolph and Woodruff. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | A maximum wind gust of 45 mph was recorded at the Bear Lake sensor. Wind damage was reported near Bear Lake and in Garden City, including large tree limbs that were damaged and roof shingles that were blown off of a house. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | $2,000 | The roof of a mobile home was blown off. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | The FW8325 Garden City mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Garden City | - | A 51 knot gust of wind was recorded at Otter Creek RAWS. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pickelville (historical) | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Lakota | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Garden | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Old Limber Pine | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| Meadowville | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Laketown | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sage Creek Junction | 18.9 miles | 13 | |
| Randolph | 22.4 miles | 13 |
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 Garden City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483401 | 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 1428133. 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.






