Glendale, Utah
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Orderville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84729. It lies near Bishop Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Glendale quadrangle. 312 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,778 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGlendale fell from 381 to 312 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 | 381 | |
| 2020 | 312 | -69 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1886 USGS Kanab quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Orderville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Kanab quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Glendale quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
157 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Glendale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,859 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | STEWART |
| 3 September 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Cedar City Field Office | REED CYN 2 |
| 25 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GRAVIL PIT |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | GRASSY HOLLOW |
| 2 September 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | REED CYN 2 |
| 16 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GLENDALE ASSIST 2 |
| 16 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | COVE |
| 14 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ELBOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Glendale: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aggregate, Light Weight, Pumice. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Knoll Cinder Deposit | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aggregate, Light Weight | Past Producer | Basalt | |
| Black Knoll Cinder Deposit | Pumice | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit No 13003 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept. Highways Pit #13003 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sand |
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glendale in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 2 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Glendale | - | Heavy rain resulted in flash flooding of the East Fork of the Virgin River. The flood wave started near the East Fork of the Virgin River near Glendale, which rose from 16 CFS to 544 CFS, corresponding to a 3 foot rise. The flood wave grew downstream from additional heavy rain, where the East Fork of the Virgin River near Springdale rose from 45 CFS to 2410 CFS, corresponding to a 6 foot rise. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Glendale | - | Multiple flash floods were reported in the upper Kanab Creek drainage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orderville | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Carmel | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Carmel Junction | 7.8 miles | 15 | |
| Alton | 10.3 miles | 14 | |
| Long Valley Junction | 12.6 miles | 16 | |
| Duck Creek Village | 14.6 miles | 19 | |
| Navajo lake Lodge | 17.7 miles | 19 | |
| Kanab | 19.0 miles | 17 |
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 Glendale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482682 | 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 1428204. 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.






