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.
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
Joseph William Parker Farmlisted 1977
Population over time
2 figuresJoseph 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 344 | |
| 2020 | 288 | -56 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1940 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Elsinore quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
68 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 49 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2020 | Firearms and explosives use | under an acre | Central Area | JOE TOWN |
| 4 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | SARGENT MTN |
| 24 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Richfield Field Office | RIVER BOTTOM 2 |
| 18 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Central Area | JONES ROAD 2 |
| 16 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | not named |
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | NORTH SOUTH CANYON |
| 5 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | CHRISTMAS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 27 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bbb | Uranium, Diatomite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Bbb | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Elsinore Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel | |
| Elsinore Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit 21004 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit 21005 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit 21006 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit 21007 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit 21008 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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.
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 Joseph | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482481 | The 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.







