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.
Population over time
2 figuresKanarraville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 355 | |
| 2020 | 442 | +87 (+25%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Kanarraville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Kanarraville quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
139 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 65 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MM 49 I-15 |
| 7 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Zion National Park | CAMP CREEK |
| 6 September 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | DAX |
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MILEMARKER 51 |
| 5 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | OLD HIGHWAY 91 |
| 4 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | PACKER |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PAVEMENT |
| 3 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | KANARRA CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rim Claims | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown Copper Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Malachite | |
| Borrow Pit #27004 Utah Dept. of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sand | |
| Gravel Pit #11062 Utah Dept. of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sand | |
| Gravel Pit #11064 Utah Dept. of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sand | |
| Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit No.27004 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.11062 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.11064 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept Hwys Pit No 11055 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Kanarraville | $30,000 | A 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 2024 | Flash Flood | Kanarraville | $10,000 | A 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 2021 | Flash Flood | Kanarraville | $2,000 | Flash flooding carried debris across Old U.S. Highway 91 through Kanarraville. |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Kanarraville | - | High water in Kanarra Falls required several hikers to be rescued. Time is estimated based on radar. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Kanarraville | - | A multi-vehicle accident was reported with accumulating hail on the interstate. Accumulating hail was reported on other roads near there. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanarraville | - | Mesonet station UTBLK at I-15 at Black Ridge recorded a wind gust of 60 mph. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kanarraville | - | The Interstate 15 at Black Ridge sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 58 mph. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamiltons Fort | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Cedar Highlands | 10.0 miles | 19 | |
| Cedar City | 11.6 miles | 19 | |
| Halivah | 11.9 miles | 18 | |
| Iron Mountain | 12.2 miles | 17 | |
| Desert Mound | 12.8 miles | 16 | |
| Old Irontown | 14.7 miles | 17 | |
| Iron Springs | 14.8 miles | 18 |
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 Kanarraville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483692 | 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 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.








