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Mantua, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brigham City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84324. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mantua quadrangle. 1,090 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,200 feet above sea level.

Mantua within Box Elder County

On record in Mantua

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Mantua grew from 687 to 1,090 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
2010687
20201,090+403 (+59%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative binder in action. Mantua, Utah
FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative binder in action. Mantua, Utah
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Mantua Lime Kiln, One mile north of Mantua, Mantua, Box Elder County, UT
Mantua Lime Kiln, One mile north of Mantua, Mantua, Box Elder County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative binder in action. Mantua, Utah
FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative binder in action. Mantua, Utah
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Mantua between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,217 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony23
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism4
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD RESERVIOR
29 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestUPPER DOCK FLATS
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMANTUA WEST
25 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLOWER DOCK FLATS 3
23 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestUPPER DOCK FLATS
23 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAPLE SPRINGS
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNORTHSIDE HWY 89 CAZIER
12 September 2004Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBIG PINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Mantua: 19 past producers, 11 producers, 5 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Graphite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Coal. 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
Homber MinesGraphite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceLead, Malachite, Schist
Homber MinesZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, CoalPast Producer
Mantua PitsClayProducer
Maple Springs Calcite ProspectsCalciumOccurrenceVein
Ogden Boilermakers ClaimCopper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Overland ClaimSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Silver EagleSilver, Copper, LeadPast ProducerVein
Silver EagleSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
HoltonCopperOccurrenceReplacement
HoltonCopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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
Brigham City3.9 miles12
Perry5.2 miles11
Willard7.7 miles11
Corinne9.6 miles12
Nerva10.2 miles12
South Willard10.4 miles12
Honeyville12.2 miles11
Bear River City12.7 miles11

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 MantuaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483588The 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 1443141. 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.