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Highland, Utah

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the American Fork-Pleasant Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84004. It stands on Fort Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lehi quadrangle. 19,348 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,977 feet above sea level.

Highland within Utah County

On record in Highland

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

Highland grew from 15,523 to 19,348 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
201015,523
202019,348+3,825 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Highland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,014 acres in total. 28 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTIBBLE
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTANK CANYON #2
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTANK CANYON #1
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLONE PEAK
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMAHOGANY
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsILLEGAL BURN
4 September 2005Naturalunder an acreTimpanogos Cave National MonumentWESTTOUR
28 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSOLO # 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Highland: 24 producers, 21 past producers, 8 occurrences. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Lead, Brick 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
Alpine Galena MineLead, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Aqueduct QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerQuartz
Dry Hollow ProspectsIronOccurrenceHematite
M WorkingsSilver, Lead, ZincOccurrenceReplacement
Mahogany Mtn. ProspectCalciumOccurrenceReplacement
Upper Box Elder Canyon ProspectZinc, Silver, LeadOccurrenceReplacement
Wadley DepositClayProducer
Wadley PitBrick ClayProducerSurface
Wadley PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Alpine Galena MineLeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Utah 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
Alpine0.5 miles21
Cedar Hills2.5 miles21
American Fork5.2 miles21
Lehi5.9 miles21
Pleasant Grove6.2 miles24
Wing6.7 miles20
Mutual Dell6.7 miles24
Silver Lake Summer Home Area7.2 miles24

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 HighlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483297The 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 1448472. 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.