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Gunnison, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gunnison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84634. It lies near Rocky Point. The Survey maps it on the Gunnison quadrangle. 3,509 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,138 feet above sea level.

Gunnison within Sanpete County

On record in Gunnison

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Gunnison grew from 3,285 to 3,509 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
20103,285
20203,509+224 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 2022

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

This old gas station in Gunnison, Utah, is defunct, but someone thought enough of it to give it a touch of elegance by painting it
This old gas station in Gunnison, Utah, is defunct, but someone thought enough of it to give it a touch of elegance by painting it
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
The Casino Star Theatre in the small city of Gunnison (population c. 3,500) the western U.S. state of Utah
The Casino Star Theatre in the small city of Gunnison (population c. 3,500) the western U.S. state of Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Gunnison between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,184 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural9
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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
11 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJOHANSEN CONSTRUCTION
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUGAR FACTORY LANE
7 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSANPITCH RIVER
6 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLUND FIRE
30 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCentral AreaDOVER RD
28 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCUFC 16
25 August 2011Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeMAY EAST
23 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHANSEN LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Gunnison: 19 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Stone. 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
Fayette Springs Gold ProspectGoldPast Producer
Gunnison Limestone ProspectsStonePast Producer
Mayfield Gypsum DepositGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Mayfield Gypsum DepositGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
Gunnison Limestone ProspectsStone, DimensionOccurrenceLimestone
Gunnison Sec. 35 QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerCalcite
Gunnison Sec. 5 QuarryStone, DimensionOccurrenceCalcite
East Centerfield Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Gravel Hills DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gunnison Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gunnison in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2001: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGunnison$50,000no account filed
June 1997FloodGunnison$20,000Heavy rain caused flooding at the state prison in Gunnison causing some damage. A nearby spotter measured 1.38" of rain on this date.
July 2001Flash FloodGunnison$2,000A flash flood occurred in Lone Cedar Canyon, southwest of Gunnison. A County road was washed out in several places, and about 60 acres of hay was damaged.
May 2000Tornado (F0)Gunnison-no account filed

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
Centerfield2.1 miles15
Spearmint3.1 miles15
Christianburg3.5 miles15
Fayette5.2 miles15
Mayfield6.4 miles16
Axtell6.9 miles15
Sterling7.2 miles16
Manti12.4 miles15

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 GunnisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q201769The 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 1428432. 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.