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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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Laketown within Rich County

Population over time

2 figures

Laketown 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.

YearPeople Change
2010248
2020299+51 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

16 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRI-004
6 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMEADOWVILLE
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRENDEZVOUS
1 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIG CREEK
24 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBAILER
23 July 2010Fireworks25 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGAP
22 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGAP POWER POLE
20 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFIRST POINT DUMPSTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rich County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lakeview Manganese MineManganese, IronPast ProducerVein
Lakeview ClaimsManganeseProspect1946
Lake Town Phosphate DepositsPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Laketown Phosphate DepositsPhosphorus-PhosphatesProspectWhitlockite
UnknownPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence1909
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
UnknownStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Unknown Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Rich County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLaketown-A wind gust of 59 mph was recorded at the Otter Creek mesonet site.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindLaketown-A wind gust of 61 mph was recorded at the East Bearlake mesonet site.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindLaketown-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 2023Thunderstorm WindLaketown-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 2023Thunderstorm WindLaketown-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 2021Thunderstorm WindLaketown-The Otter Creek automated weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindLaketown-A maximum wind gust of 69 mph was recorded at the Otter Creek RAWS.
October 1998WaterspoutLaketown-A spotter observed a waterspout on the Utah portion of Bear Lake.

Every storm recorded in Rich 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
Meadowville4.3 miles13
Garden5.5 miles16
Pickelville (historical)6.9 miles16
Garden City9.2 miles16
Old Limber Pine10.4 miles16
Sage Creek Junction11.3 miles13
Lakota12.0 miles16
Randolph13.3 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 LaketownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483712The 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.