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Hanksville, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Hanksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84734. It stands on Bull Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hanksville quadrangle. 158 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,295 feet above sea level.

Hanksville within Wayne County

On record in Hanksville

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

Hanksville fell from 219 to 158 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
2010219
2020158-61 (-28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hanksville between 1995 and 2009, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 1995Natural2.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeFREMONT
26 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeTAMARAK
11 June 1996Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeFREMONT RV
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresRichfield Field OfficeFREMONTRIV
4 March 2009Debris and open burning1.8 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHANKSVILLE RIVER BOTTOM

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hanksville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
Copper QueenUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanksville in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2003: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 1999Flash FloodHanksville$50,000Heavy rains in the Henry Mountains caused the Bull Creek to overflow its banks near Hanksville. Some basements were flooded near the creek, and even the Mayor's yard on the south end of town got flooded.
September 2003Flash FloodHanksville-A thunderstorm dropped 0.94 inches of rain in 30 minutes in Hanksville, producing flash floods east of town on Bull Creek.
September 2002Tornado (F0)Hanksville-A small tornado (F0) was observed 20 miles southeast of Hanksville in Wayne County. It was on the ground over open country for a short time, and debris from the ground was observed rising before the funnel dissipated.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Caineville16.4 miles19
Notom23.5 miles20
Fruita28.9 miles20
Grover35.2 miles22
Torrey37.7 miles22
Teasdale40.9 miles22
Bicknell44.0 miles18
Lyman46.4 miles19

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 HanksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483655The 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 1428508. 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.