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.
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
Alfred William Harper Houselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresLindon 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,070 | |
| 2020 | 11,397 | +1,327 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 24 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 Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1948 USGS Orem quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Orem quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Orem quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Provo quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Orem quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Orem quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
152 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 62 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 21 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Fireworks | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CASCADE FIRE |
| 6 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | DRY CANYON 2 |
| 6 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SHIP FIRE |
| 5 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | MAHOGANY |
| 4 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | OREM PEAT BOG 4 |
| 30 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | DRY CYN. LINDON |
| 27 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CANYON GLEN |
| 27 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ILLEGAL BURN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 34 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahogany Mtn. Prospect | Calcium | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Wadley Pit | Brick Clay | Producer | Surface | |
| Mcfarland Deposit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Wadley Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Ellis Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Ellis Mcfarland and Smith Pits | Clay | Producer | ||
| Ellis, Mcfarland & Smith Pits | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Mcfarland Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Smith Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Wadley Deposit | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Lindon | $50,000 | About 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 2016 | Hail | Lindon | - | Multiple reports were received of penny sized hail in Lindon and Pleasant Grove. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Lindon | - | Severe thunderstorms produced heavy rain and 3/4 inch hail in Lindon. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardy | 1.0 miles | 24 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 1.7 miles | 24 | |
| Orem Station | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Bunker | 2.5 miles | 24 | |
| Vineyard | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Orem | 3.5 miles | 24 | |
| Wing | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Snow | 3.9 miles | 24 |
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 Lindon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482609 | 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 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.









