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Hildale, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84784. It lies near Maxwell Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Hildale quadrangle. 1,127 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,049 feet above sea level.

Hildale within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Hildale fell from 2,726 to 1,127 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
20102,726
20201,127-1,599 (-59%)

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.

Fires near this place

77 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Hildale between 1996 and 2020, burning about 194 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 4 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
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSQUIRREL CANYON
18 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresArizona Strip Field OfficeBED
18 September 2019Naturalunder an acreColorado City Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
16 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMAXWELL
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado City Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado City Fire Department180670
8 August 2004Natural10 acresCedar City Field OfficeCANAAN 2
6 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado City Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Big Plain Junction8.0 miles17
Apple Valley10.2 miles17
Shunesburg10.7 miles16
Rockville11.5 miles16
Grafton12.8 miles16
Springdale12.9 miles16
Watchman Residential Area13.8 miles16
Oak Creek Residential Area14.3 miles16

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 HildaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483016The 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 1450387. 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.