Mendon, Utah
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Wellsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84325. It lies near Bird Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle. 1,339 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,495 feet above sea level.
On record in Mendon
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 9 records
George Washington Baker Houselisted 1983
William & Elizabeth Barrett Farmsteadlisted 2008
Forster Hotellisted 2008
Mendon Stationlisted 2008
Muir Houselisted 2008
James F. & Mary Jane Whitney Houselisted 2008
James G. Willie Houselisted 1983- Samuel Baker Houselisted 1983
- James Gardner Houselisted 1982
Population over time
2 figuresMendon grew from 1,282 to 1,339 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 | 1,282 | |
| 2020 | 1,339 | +57 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1914 USGS Logan quadrangle1:125000
- 1916 USGS Logan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Logan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Wellsville quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
5 photographs, 1940Taken 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.
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
37 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Mendon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 690 acres in total. 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 13 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2005 | Natural | 50 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | DEEP CANYON |
| 8 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 3200 WEST |
| 27 August 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BENSEN MARINA |
| 27 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HAWS |
| 26 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | RAM |
| 26 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | DEWEYVILLE 2 |
| 26 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | DEWEYVILLE 3 |
| 24 August 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MP 11 SR 23 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mendon: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendon Pit No 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mendon Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mendon in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Flood | Mendon | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall in the Cache Valley, combined with frozen ground and snowmelt, produced flooding in portions of Mendon and Wellsville. Culverts in those areas quickly became clogged with debris, and several homes reported basement flooding. State Route 23 was also closed for a period of time due to water flowing across the road. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mendon | $50,000 | Severe thunderstorms blew through Cache County, snapping power poles and downing power lines in Mendon, and wrapping a large sprinkler line around a telephone pole in the Newton/Clarkston area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Petersboro | 4.1 miles | 16 | |
| Ballard Junction | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Wellsville | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Greens Corner | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| College Ward | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Benson | 5.9 miles | 16 | |
| Riverside | 6.5 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Sterling | 7.2 miles | 19 |
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 Mendon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483241 | 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 1450429. 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.







