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Kanosh, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Fillmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84637. It stands on Corn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kanosh quadrangle. 508 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,020 feet above sea level.

Kanosh within Millard County

On record in Kanosh

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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Kanosh grew from 474 to 508 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
2010474
2020508+34 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cove Fort, State Routes 4 & 161, Kanosh, Millard County, UT
Cove Fort, State Routes 4 & 161, Kanosh, Millard County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Kanosh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,815 acres in total. 112 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
Natural112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestRIDGELINE
8 September 2017Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEST
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestMOUTH
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSHAREE
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestDAMERON
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestDRY WASH # 5
3 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestGHOST
28 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBRAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Kanosh: 19 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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
Meadow Travertine QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Rock Corral QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface
Rock Corral QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Black Rock VolcanoVolcanic MaterialsProducerCinders
Utah Dept. of Highways Cinder Pit No 14038Volcanic MaterialsPast ProducerBasalt, Cinders, Pumice
Utah Dept. of Highways Cinder Pit No. 14037Volcanic MaterialsPast ProducerBasalt, Cinders, Pumice
Black Rock Volcano Sw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fillmore Borrow Pit #24Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Fillmore Borrow Pit #25Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Fillmore Borrow Pit No.24Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kanosh in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 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 2024Thunderstorm WindKanosh-A wind gust of 58 mph was recorded at the I-15 at MP 144 mesonet site.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindKanosh-A wind gust of 59 mph was recorded at the I-15 at MP 144 mesonet site.
August 1997HailKanosh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Millard 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
Kanosh Indian Village2.2 miles16
Hatton2.8 miles16
Sixmile Point4.9 miles16
Meadow6.0 miles15
Eightmile Point6.8 miles16
Flowell12.3 miles15
Fillmore13.0 miles17
Bloom21.7 miles13

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 KanoshAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483427The 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 1442277. 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.