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Independence, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Heber City East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84082. It lies near Foreman Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Twin Peaks quadrangle. 121 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,073 feet above sea level.

Independence within Wasatch County

Population over time

2 figures

Independence fell from 164 to 121 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
2010164
2020121-43 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Independence between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,782 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 1 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMILL A.
9 September 1993Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forestnot named
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLITTLE CLYDE CREEK
8 September 1997Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTELEPHONE HOLLOW
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCURRANT CREEK
29 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHUB
22 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBJORKMAN 2
2 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestEPHEMERAL

Every fire recorded in Wasatch 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 Independence: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Hobble Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Point of the Pines Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Point of the Pines Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26027Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. Z6027Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Wasatch Sand and Gravel No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Wasatch 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
Wallsburg10.5 miles21
Timber Lakes11.8 miles22
Center Creek13.2 miles22
Daniel14.3 miles21
Charleston16.0 miles21
Heber City16.3 miles26
Midway18.5 miles26
Mountain Spa19.0 miles26

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 IndependenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483623The 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 2547779. 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.