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Joseph, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Monroe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84739. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elsinore quadrangle. 288 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,436 feet above sea level.

Joseph within Sevier County

On record in Joseph

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

Joseph fell from 344 to 288 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
2010344
2020288-56 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Joseph between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 49 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
Natural49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Firearms and explosives use4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2020Firearms and explosives useunder an acreCentral AreaJOE TOWN
4 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFishlake National Forestnot named
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSARGENT MTN
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeRIVER BOTTOM 2
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral AreaJONES ROAD 2
16 September 1994Naturalunder an acreFishlake National Forestnot named
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestNORTH SOUTH CANYON
5 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestCHRISTMAS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Joseph: 11 producers, 10 past producers, 6 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Uranium, Diatomite. 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
BbbUranium, DiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
BbbUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Elsinore Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Elsinore Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept Highways Pit 21008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Sevier 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
Cove2.8 miles18
Sevier3.5 miles19
Monroe5.1 miles17
Elsinore5.3 miles17
Austin6.0 miles17
Nibley6.5 miles17
Belknap8.1 miles19
Central Valley8.2 miles17

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 JosephAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482481The 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 1442224. 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.