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Kanarraville, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cedar City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84742. The Survey maps it on the Kanarraville quadrangle. 442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,541 feet above sea level.

Kanarraville within Iron County

Population over time

2 figures

Kanarraville grew from 355 to 442 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
2010355
2020442+87 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Kanarraville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,215 acres in total. 65 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
Natural65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use22
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMM 49 I-15
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkCAMP CREEK
6 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDAX
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMILEMARKER 51
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeOLD HIGHWAY 91
4 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficePACKER
30 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPAVEMENT
3 September 2017Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeKANARRA CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Kanarraville: 16 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Uranium. 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
Rim ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
UnknownCopperOccurrence
Unknown Copper ProspectCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Borrow Pit #27004 Utah Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand
Gravel Pit #11062 Utah Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand
Gravel Pit #11064 Utah Dept. of HighwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand
Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit No.27004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.11062Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.11064Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Pit No 11055Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kanarraville in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 FloodKanarraville$30,000A dike collapse due to heavy rainfall led to a large amount of debris across Old U.S. Highway 91, with the road being closed.
July 2024Flash FloodKanarraville$10,000A strong thunderstorm resulted in flash flooding in and around Kanarraville. One house received flood damage from water, mud, and debris per Iron County Emergency Management.
August 2021Flash FloodKanarraville$2,000Flash flooding carried debris across Old U.S. Highway 91 through Kanarraville.
July 2025Flash FloodKanarraville-High water in Kanarra Falls required several hikers to be rescued. Time is estimated based on radar.
June 2023HailKanarraville-A multi-vehicle accident was reported with accumulating hail on the interstate. Accumulating hail was reported on other roads near there.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKanarraville-Mesonet station UTBLK at I-15 at Black Ridge recorded a wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKanarraville-The Interstate 15 at Black Ridge sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 58 mph.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Hamiltons Fort5.8 miles19
Cedar Highlands10.0 miles19
Cedar City11.6 miles19
Halivah11.9 miles18
Iron Mountain12.2 miles17
Desert Mound12.8 miles16
Old Irontown14.7 miles17
Iron Springs14.8 miles18

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 KanarravilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483692The 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 1429278. 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.