Liberty, Utah
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ogden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84310. It stands on Sheep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Huntsville quadrangle. 1,522 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,167 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLiberty grew from 1,257 to 1,522 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 | 1,257 | |
| 2020 | 1,522 | +265 (+21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
82 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,077 acres in total. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 14 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | POWERLINE ROAD |
| 7 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | COLD SPRINGS |
| 4 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ELK FIRE |
| 30 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SKYLAND |
| 3 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | FARMINGTON FLAT |
| 27 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | NORTH FORK |
| 26 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | not named |
| 25 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Bear River Area | VALLEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Liberty: 14 prospects, 2 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Joe Occurrence | Copper | Occurrence | Malachite | |
| Kathy Ann Claim | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| East Liberty Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29024 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29028 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29029 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29039 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29040 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29041 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29042 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect |
Storms near this place
8 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Flood | Liberty | $100,000 | Flooding occurred in localized areas of Weber County, primarily in the towns of Eden and Wolf Creek. Basement flooding was reported in 22 homes, including 12 Lakeside Condos units and 10 other homes. Some homeowners received as much as a foot of water in their basement, and others had to clean up dirty conditions due to overflowing raw sewage. In addition, some heavy construction equipment was damaged near the mouth of Weber Canyon, where it had been parked along the river bank. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Liberty | $80,000 | More heavy rainfall occurred across the Ogden Valley, causing isolated flooding incidents. Water flowed across several roadways, and six homes near the Wolf Mountain ski resort experienced flooding. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Liberty | $50,000 | Heavy rainfall on frozen ground, combined with some snowmelt, led to the flooding of some residential basements in Liberty, Utah. This flooding was eventually mitigated with pumps and sandbags. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Liberty | $3,000 | Flash flooding in Liberty included a road that was washed out, as well as minor landscape damage to a few homes. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | $1,000 | no account filed |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty | - | The North Ogden Divide mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 59 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Liberty | - | One inch hail was reported in Liberty. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Liberty | - | A severe thunderstorm dumped 3/4 inch hail and .78 inches of rain in about 10 minutes in the Nordic Valley area. The depth of the hail on the ground reached 5-6 inches. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Fork Estates | 0.4 miles | 12 | |
| Liberty Meadows | 0.7 miles | 12 | |
| Spring Mountain Ranchettes | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Willow Creek | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Eden Hills | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Patio Springs | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Liberty Bell Ranchettes | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Shannon Bee Estates | 1.7 miles | 12 |
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 Liberty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5974828 | 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 1429602. 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.






