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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.

Liberty within Weber County

Population over time

2 figures

Liberty 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,257
20201,522+265 (+21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

82 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning7
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOWERLINE ROAD
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCOLD SPRINGS
4 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsELK FIRE
30 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSKYLAND
3 September 2012Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFARMINGTON FLAT
27 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNORTH FORK
26 September 1992Debris and open burning2.5 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forestnot named
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBear River AreaVALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jenny Joe OccurrenceCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Kathy Ann ClaimUraniumUnknown
East Liberty Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29024Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29029Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29039Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29040Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29041Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29042Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Weber County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2011FloodLiberty$100,000Flooding 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 2012FloodLiberty$80,000More 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 2012FloodLiberty$50,000Heavy 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 2009Flash FloodLiberty$3,000Flash flooding in Liberty included a road that was washed out, as well as minor landscape damage to a few homes.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindLiberty$1,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLiberty-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 2007HailLiberty-One inch hail was reported in Liberty.
August 2003HailLiberty-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.

Every storm recorded in Weber 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
North Fork Estates0.4 miles12
Liberty Meadows0.7 miles12
Spring Mountain Ranchettes1.2 miles14
Willow Creek1.5 miles12
Eden Hills1.5 miles12
Patio Springs1.6 miles12
Liberty Bell Ranchettes1.7 miles12
Shannon Bee Estates1.7 miles12

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 LibertyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5974828The 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.