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Loa, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Loa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84747. It stands on Road Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loa quadrangle. 516 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,064 feet above sea level.

Loa within Wayne County

On record in Loa

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

Loa fell from 572 to 516 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
2010572
2020516-56 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Loa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral AreaLANDFILL
7 July 2001Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestSADDLE PASS
28 July 2003Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestBURNT SPRINGS
18 July 1992Naturalunder an acreFishlake National Forestnot named
2 June 2005Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestCEDAR SPRINGS
23 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresCentral AreaDAVIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Loa: 13 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Vanadium, 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
Pinion #12Uranium, VanadiumOccurrenceUnderground
Pinion No 12UraniumPast Producer
Allred Point Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAndesite, Basalt, Clay
Allred Point Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Ridge Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAndesite, Basalt
Black Ridge Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dry Valley Gravel Pit # 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAndesite, Basalt
Dry Valley Gravel Pit # 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAndesite, Basalt
Dry Valley Gravel Pit No.1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Graveyard Hollow Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerAndesite, Basalt

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Loa in 2 storm reports in 2010: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
August 2010HailLoa$20,000Hail, that was estimated to be one inch in diameter, pitted cars traveling along SR-24 near Loa. This storm was slow moving, and 5 inches of hail accumulated in the same area. Several accidents were reported on the highway as the storm was overhead. Note that this storm also caused flash flooding in the area.
August 2010Flash FloodLoa-A slow moving thunderstorm produced very heavy rain, and caused flash flooding along SR-24 between Loa and Koosharem. There were several accidents on the highway as the storm was overhead. Note that this storm also produced severe hail.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Lyman2.9 miles19
Fremont4.0 miles19
Bicknell6.8 miles18
Teasdale11.9 miles22
Torrey13.9 miles22
Grover19.7 miles22
Fruita22.5 miles20
Notom30.2 miles20

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 LoaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483311The 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 1442822. 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.