BlockBefore

Kearns, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84118. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City South quadrangle. 36,723 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,528 feet above sea level.

Kearns within Salt Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Kearns grew from 35,731 to 36,723 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
201035,731
202036,723+992 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Kearns between 1998 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
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
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAILER
31 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsU 111
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
19 May 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFIRST
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5525 S COUGAR LN
19 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands4430 S ATHERTON DR
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5167 W 6275 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 52 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 52 workings within 5 miles of Kearns: 25 producers, 23 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
New EnglandSilver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Onyx RanchGemstoneProducerOnyx
Spring and SummitGold, SilverPast Producer
UnknownMercury, LeadOccurrenceCinnabar, Mercury
Utah Delaware Mining Co.Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Murray Slag DumpZinc, LeadProducer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kearns in 6 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2011Flash FloodKearns$350,000A heavy rainstorm produced flash flooding across parts of the Salt Lake Valley, and the hardest hit areas were Kearns, Taylorsville, and Murray. In Kearns, water was 9 to 12 inches deep across several roads, making them impassable. In Taylorsville, at least a half dozen homes had flooded basements near the intersection of 5400 South and 3200 West. Water caused a sinkhole to form in the roadway around 6200 South and 2700 West, buckling and collapsing the street. In Murray, approximately 25 homes were flooded, with some basements filling with 4 to 6 feet of water.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindKearns$500no account filed
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKearns-Microburst winds blew from the west and northwest along the Wasatch front producing isolated damage reports. The most significant damage occurred in the Woods Cross area. With wind gusts estimated at 80 mph, gravel and small debris became airborne and was driven into a few new cars, damaging the paint and breaking out windows. Auto damage was estimated at $20,000. An adjacent building lost a few shingles. Lightning started at least 12 range fires in Box Elder and Tooele Counties. The northwest microburst winds blew choking smoke into the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindKearns-The above mentioned thunderstorm also produced frequent lightning and high winds. Lightning struck a house, and caused only minor damage. The spotter in Kearns reported only one gust to 52 knots, but had two gusts to 47 knots shortly thereafter.
May 2000HailKearns-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindKearns-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
West Valley City2.2 miles20
Oquirrh2.8 miles20
Hunter2.9 miles20
Granger3.0 miles25
Taylorsville3.1 miles25
Bennion (historical)3.4 miles25
West Jordan4.6 miles24
Redwood (historical)4.8 miles25

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 KearnsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306750The 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 1429290. 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.