Laketown, Utah
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Garden City-Laketown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84038. It lies in Laketown Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Laketown quadrangle. 299 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,974 feet above sea level.
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Population over time
2 figuresLaketown grew from 248 to 299 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 | 248 | |
| 2020 | 299 | +51 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1912 USGS Randolph quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Laketown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Logan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Laketown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 444 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RI-004 |
| 6 August 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MEADOWVILLE |
| 27 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RENDEZVOUS |
| 1 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BIG CREEK |
| 24 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BAILER |
| 23 July 2010 | Fireworks | 25 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GAP |
| 22 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GAP POWER POLE |
| 20 July 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | FIRST POINT DUMPSTER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Laketown: 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Manganese, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeview Manganese Mine | Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Lakeview Claims | Manganese | Prospect | 1946 | |
| Lake Town Phosphate Deposits | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Laketown Phosphate Deposits | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Prospect | Whitlockite | |
| Unknown | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | 1909 | |
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Unknown Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laketown in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 waterspout. 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | A wind gust of 59 mph was recorded at the Otter Creek mesonet site. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | A wind gust of 61 mph was recorded at the East Bearlake mesonet site. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | The high elevation Otter Creek mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 76 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | The East Bearlake mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | The East Bearlake mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 62 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | The Otter Creek automated weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laketown | - | A maximum wind gust of 69 mph was recorded at the Otter Creek RAWS. |
| October 1998 | Waterspout | Laketown | - | A spotter observed a waterspout on the Utah portion of Bear Lake. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadowville | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Garden | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Pickelville (historical) | 6.9 miles | 16 | |
| Garden City | 9.2 miles | 16 | |
| Old Limber Pine | 10.4 miles | 16 | |
| Sage Creek Junction | 11.3 miles | 13 | |
| Lakota | 12.0 miles | 16 | |
| Randolph | 13.3 miles | 13 |
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 Laketown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483712 | 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 1429446. 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.





