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Midvale, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84047. It stands on Bingham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Midvale quadrangle. 36,028 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,383 feet above sea level.

Midvale within Salt Lake County

On record in Midvale

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Midvale grew from 27,964 to 36,028 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
201027,964
202036,028+8,064 (+29%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Midvale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIENNA
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUNION ASSIST
7 June 1997Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMURDOCK
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV
21 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands963 W MOGUL PEAK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Midvale: 30 producers, 27 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
All Minerals MillBarium-BariteProducer
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Cottonwood Clay PitsClayProducer
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
New EnglandSilver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
New York & Great Western Mining, Smelting, and Development CompanyZinc, LeadPast Producer
Onyx RanchGemstoneProducerOnyx

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midvale in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death and 7 injuries. 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
May 2000LightningMidvale1 killed, 6 hurtno account filed
May 2000LightningMidvale1 hurtno account filed
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMidvale$75,000Multiple trees fell on homes in the Midvale area. Additionally, power outages occurred.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindMidvale$30,000A large tree fell on a car at an apartment complex parking lot.
May 1999LightningMidvale$5,000Lightning struck Silvester's Restaurant in Midvale setting a portion of the roof on fire. Nobody was injured and the fire was quickly put out.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindMidvale$1,000A tree was snapped off near its base in Midvale.
August 1993HailMidvale$500Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles.
August 1993HailMidvale$500Tropical moisture surged further north into Utah. This moisture led to the development of severe thunderstorms over the southern portion of Salt Lake County. The rest of the county was hardly touched. The hail accumulated to a 3-inch depth in Herriman. The hail shredded vegetation, and damaged vehicles.
August 2017HailMidvale-A member of the public reported dime-sized hail near Interstate 15 and 7200 South.
June 2016HailMidvale-Nickel-sized hail was reported in Midvale.
July 2007FloodMidvale-Two foot deep water was reported at 7800S 300W.
August 2001HailMidvale-A severe thunderstorm dropped 1 inch diameter hail in Midvale.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Atwood1.5 miles25
Sandy City1.6 miles24
Endot1.6 miles24
Union1.6 miles25
West Jordan2.1 miles24
Bennion (historical)2.8 miles25
Dalton2.9 miles25
Lampton3.6 miles24

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 MidvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482518The 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 1430307. 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.