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Huntington, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Castle Dale-Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84528. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. 1,914 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,787 feet above sea level.

Huntington within Emery County

On record in Huntington

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 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Huntington fell from 2,129 to 1,914 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
20102,129
20201,914-215 (-10%)

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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Huntington Creek Bridge, Spanning Huntington Creek at State Route 10, Huntington, Emery County, UT
Huntington Creek Bridge, Spanning Huntington Creek at State Route 10, Huntington, Emery County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Huntington between 1998 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDUMP 2
20 August 2017Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands900 WEST
7 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeMISSION LANE
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast AreaGAME FARM
26 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeNORTH RESERVOIR
25 July 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSoutheast AreaOTTESON HOLLOW
8 June 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHUNTINGTON
7 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAILER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Huntington: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 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
Huntington Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Huntington Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huntington Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Huntington Lake Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
The Gumhill Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
The Gumhill, Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntington in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 debris flow, 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 2021Flash FloodHuntington$3,000UDOT reported two flash floods the Trail Mountain Fire burn scar flowed across state Route 31 between milepost 40 and milepost 44.
August 2022Flash FloodHuntington-A debris flow from the Trail Mountain Fire burn scar was observed on Huntington Creek near the Huntington Power Plant.
July 2021Tornado (EFU)Huntington-LANDSPOUT. A video and photos of a landspout tornado near Hungtington was sent to local broadcast media near Huntington.
July 2015Debris FlowHuntington-Heavy rain over the Seeley Fire burn scar caused flash flooding and debris flows onto State Route 31.
August 2013Flash FloodHuntington-Heavy rain caused a flash flood on Huntington Creek and a debris flow off of the Seeley Fire burn scar. Flooding impacted the Huntington Power Plant, with water having to be diverted around the plant. Logs, mud, and rocks were in the river as it passed the power plant.
August 2013Debris FlowHuntington-A debris flow occurred off of the Seeley Fire burn scar, covering State Route 31 with mud, and producing significant rises on Huntington Creek.
August 2011HailHuntington-The Emery County Dispatch reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch in Huntington.
September 2009HailHuntington-A trained spotter reported one inch hail near Huntington, Utah.

Every storm recorded in Emery 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
Lawrence2.9 miles15
Cleveland6.2 miles13
Mohrland8.3 miles20
Orangeville8.3 miles19
Castle Dale8.4 miles19
Elmo9.0 miles14
Victor14.2 miles14
Clawson15.1 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 HuntingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483315The 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 1428946. 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.