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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.

Mendon within Cache County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Mendon 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,282
20201,339+57 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

5 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.

Houses belonging to a Mormon farmer in Mendon, Utah. The new house was built with profits from his farm
Houses belonging to a Mormon farmer in Mendon, Utah. The new house was built with profits from his farm
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Schoolhouse. Mendon, Utah
Schoolhouse. Mendon, Utah
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Part of congregation of Latter Day Saints Church. Mendon, Utah
Part of congregation of Latter Day Saints Church. Mendon, Utah
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
One of the older rock houses in the village of Mendon, Utah, second oldest Mormon settlement north of Salt Lake City
One of the older rock houses in the village of Mendon, Utah, second oldest Mormon settlement north of Salt Lake City
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress
Meeting of the priesthood in Mormon church. This meeting is held on the first Sunday of every month and includes all males fourteen years of age and older. On this morning these men do without breakfast and give the saved money to the Bishop's fund. Mendon, Utah
Meeting of the priesthood in Mormon church. This meeting is held on the first Sunday of every month and includes all males fourteen years of age and older. On this morning these men do without breakfast and give the saved money to the Bishop's fund. Mendon, Utah
Lee, Russell, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
3 September 2005Natural50 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDEEP CANYON
8 August 1998Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands3200 WEST
27 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use20 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBENSEN MARINA
27 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAWS
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestRAM
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDEWEYVILLE 2
26 August 2011Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDEWEYVILLE 3
24 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMP 11 SR 23

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mendon Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mendon Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2012FloodMendon$100,000Heavy 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 2003Thunderstorm WindMendon$50,000Severe 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.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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
Petersboro4.1 miles16
Ballard Junction5.2 miles16
Wellsville5.4 miles17
Greens Corner5.6 miles17
College Ward5.7 miles17
Benson5.9 miles16
Riverside6.5 miles16
Mount Sterling7.2 miles19

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 MendonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483241The 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.