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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.

Garden City within Rich County

Population over time

2 figures

Garden 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.

YearPeople Change
2010562
2020602+40 (+7%)

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

25 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks3
Natural2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAMPER WORLD
2 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCRAB RIDGE
10 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHODGES FIRE
6 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHODGES CANYON
24 August 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAD COON
19 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTABLE
14 August 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEZ CAR
10 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHODGES CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rich County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bear Lake Summit Limestone PitLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSurface
Hodge's CanyonIron, Barium-Barite, CopperOccurrenceVein
Johnson Ready Mix PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface
Victoria No 1 ProspectLead, Copper, Barium-BariteProspectVein
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Rich County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017FloodGarden City$250,000Heavy 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 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000A 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 2007Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000The roof of a mobile home was blown off.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindGarden 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 2007Thunderstorm WindGarden City-A 51 knot gust of wind was recorded at Otter Creek RAWS.

Every storm recorded in Rich 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
Pickelville (historical)2.4 miles16
Lakota2.8 miles16
Garden4.0 miles16
Old Limber Pine4.7 miles16
Meadowville7.1 miles13
Laketown9.2 miles13
Sage Creek Junction18.9 miles13
Randolph22.4 miles13

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483401The 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.