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Lindon, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the American Fork-Pleasant Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84042. It stands on Battle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orem quadrangle. 11,397 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,642 feet above sea level.

Lindon within Utah County

On record in Lindon

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Lindon grew from 10,070 to 11,397 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
201010,070
202011,397+1,327 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Lindon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,892 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 14 were 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/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony21
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism14
Fireworks12
Debris and open burning11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCASCADE FIRE
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use16 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDRY CANYON 2
6 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHIP FIRE
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMAHOGANY
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOREM PEAT BOG 4
30 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDRY CYN. LINDON
27 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCANYON GLEN
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsILLEGAL BURN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Lindon: 15 past producers, 15 producers, 4 occurrences. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Brick Clay. 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
Mahogany Mtn. ProspectCalciumOccurrenceReplacement
Wadley PitBrick ClayProducerSurface
Mcfarland DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Wadley PitFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Ellis Clay PitClayPast ProducerSurface
Ellis Mcfarland and Smith PitsClayProducer
Ellis, Mcfarland & Smith PitsClayOccurrence
Mcfarland Clay PitClayPast ProducerSurface
Smith Clay DepositClayOccurrence
Wadley DepositClayProducer

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lindon in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 hail, 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
July 2011Flash FloodLindon$50,000About an hour after a heavy rainstorm caused flash flooding in Salt Lake County, another storm moved through Utah County, causing flash flooding in Orem. Storm drains were overflowing and water covered the roads up to 3 inches deep. At least seven homes had flooding in their basements or garages.
May 2016HailLindon-Multiple reports were received of penny sized hail in Lindon and Pleasant Grove.
August 2000HailLindon-Severe thunderstorms produced heavy rain and 3/4 inch hail in Lindon.

Every storm recorded in Utah 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
Hardy1.0 miles24
Pleasant Grove1.7 miles24
Orem Station2.5 miles24
Bunker2.5 miles24
Vineyard3.5 miles24
Orem3.5 miles24
Wing3.5 miles20
Snow3.9 miles24

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 LindonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482609The 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 1442630. 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.