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Henefer, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Coalville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84033. It lies near Owens Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Henefer quadrangle. 838 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,335 feet above sea level.

Henefer within Summit County

On record in Henefer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Henefer grew from 766 to 838 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
2010766
2020838+72 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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, 1941

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.

Fields extending into the mountains. Henefer, Utah. Mormon farmers in this section not only practice irrigation but take advantage of as much of all natural runoff from the mountains as possible
Fields extending into the mountains. Henefer, Utah. Mormon farmers in this section not only practice irrigation but take advantage of as much of all natural runoff from the mountains as possible
Lee, Russell, 1941. Library of Congress
Fields extending into the mountains. Henefer, Utah. Mormon farmers in this section not only practice irrigation but take advantage of as much of all natural runoff from the mountains as possible
Fields extending into the mountains. Henefer, Utah. Mormon farmers in this section not only practice irrigation but take advantage of as much of all natural runoff from the mountains as possible
Lee, Russell, 1941. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Henefer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,347 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined36
Debris and open burning27
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural16
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands169 ECHO
8 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHILLCLIMB
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPJ FIRE
5 September 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands84 RAIL
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNortheast AreaECHO DAM
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAMS CANYON ASSIST
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOWER BUMP
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined185 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHENEFER HORSESHOE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Henefer: 7 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Arthur ForkUraniumOccurrenceVein
Devils Slide Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralProducerSurface
Anderton Clay PitsClayProducer1913
Anderton MineClayProducer
Devil S Slide QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Devils Slide PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tunnel Hollow and Mine Hollow ProspCopperPast Producer
Tunnel Hollow and Mine Hollow ProspectsCopperOccurrenceVein
Devils Slide Gravel DepositsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Devils Slide Gravel DepositsSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceCLASTIC SEDIMENTARY

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Henefer in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2015Thunderstorm WindHenefer$10,000Several large trees were knocked down by thunderstorm winds near Henefer.
September 2007HailHenefer-One inch diameter hail was reported by a television station in Henefer; the time provided was estimated.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Echo4.0 miles22
Echo Resort5.9 miles22
Coalville8.6 miles22
Emory10.5 miles10
Hoytsville11.6 miles24
Upton14.4 miles22
Wanship14.9 miles24
Castle Rock17.0 miles10

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 HeneferAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483393The 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 1428658. 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.