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Holden, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Fillmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84636. It stands on Wild Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holden quadrangle. 438 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,102 feet above sea level.

Holden within Millard County

Population over time

2 figures

Holden grew from 378 to 438 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
2010378
2020438+60 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Holden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,354 acres in total. 43 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
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
8 September 2019Natural1.8 acresRichfield Field OfficeCHURCH
6 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHOLDEN DUMP
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeHOLDEN OVERPASS
3 September 1995Natural1.0 acresFishlake National ForestEAST CHURCH HILLS
29 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral AreaFLOW
27 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresRichfield Field OfficeWIDECANYON
2 September 2007Natural3.4 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAPLE HOLLOW
2 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHURCH HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Holden: 16 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cedar Mtn Nw Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cedar Mtn Nw Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Church Spring Ditch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Church Spring Ditch Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Church Spring Wash Gravel Pit No.26Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Church Spring Wosh Gravel Pit No. 26Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Greenwood Gravel Pit No. 9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerQuartzite
Greenwood Gravel Pit No.9Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holden No. 8 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartzite
Holden No.8 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holden in 1 storm report in 2017: 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
July 2017Flash FloodHolden-Heavy rain south of Scipio caused flash flooding along US-50, temporarily closing the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Millard 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
Greenwood4.6 miles16
Fillmore9.4 miles17
McCornick10.9 miles15
Maple Grove11.1 miles14
Flowell11.8 miles15
Scipio13.4 miles15
Meadow16.5 miles15
Harding16.7 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 HoldenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483669The 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 1428763. 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.