LaVerkin, Utah
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84745. It stands on Chinatown Wash. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle. 4,354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,192 feet above sea level.
On record in LaVerkin
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 within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Hurricane-LaVerkin Bridgelisted 1995 · 0.8 miles away- La Verkin Hydroelectric Power Plantlisted 2022 · 0.6 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresLaVerkin grew from 4,060 to 4,354 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 | 4,060 | |
| 2020 | 4,354 | +294 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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
- 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS La Verkin 3 NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS St. George quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Hurricane quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
114 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of LaVerkin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,945 acres in total. 22 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 | 45 |
| Natural | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Fireworks | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LEEDS ASST #2 |
| 7 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | TOQUERVILLE ASSIST 2 |
| 4 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HURRICANE ASST.#9 |
| 3 September 2012 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HURRICANE ASSIST 05 |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TOQUERSVILLE SOUTH |
| 27 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Southwest Area | STATE STREET |
| 18 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | L |
| 17 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.5 acres | Cedar City Field Office | TURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 55 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of LaVerkin: 35 past producers, 8 producers, 7 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Volcanic Materials, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Rock #1 | Uranium, Vanadium, Silver | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Hot Rock No.1 | Vanadium, Silver, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| La Verkin Dixie Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Nevada | Copper, Uranium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Vanderbilt No.5 Mines | Silver, Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Adah | Copper | Producer | ||
| Gould Ranch Tar Sand Deposit | Oil Sands | Occurrence | ||
| Maud | Silver, Uranium, Copper | Past Producer | Malachite | |
| Timpoweap Canyon Tar Sand Deposit | Oil Sands | Occurrence | ||
| Vanderbilt | Silver, Copper | Past Producer | Malachite |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurricane | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Toquerville | 3.7 miles | 18 | |
| Virgin | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Leeds | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Anderson Junction | 6.0 miles | 18 | |
| Silver Reef | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Harrisburg | 6.6 miles | 17 | |
| Harrisburg Junction | 9.0 miles | 17 |
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 LaVerkin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482758 | 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 1429398. 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.








