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Minersville, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84752. It lies near Muddy Hill. The Survey maps it on the Minersville quadrangle. 807 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,282 feet above sea level.

Minersville within Beaver County

On record in Minersville

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Minersville fell from 907 to 807 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
2010907
2020807-100 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Minersville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 10,998 acres in total. 43 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
Natural43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Firearms and explosives use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
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
9 September 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeGOULES
9 September 2000Smokingunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeHANGING RK
8 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeJACKS PEAK
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCHECKERBOARD
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeHANGING ROCK
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBURN PERMIT
27 September 2008Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMINERSVILLE DAM
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOW PATH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Minersville: 27 past producers, 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Lead. 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
Big Maple AreaManganeseOccurrenceVein
CreoleTungsten, Copper, Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc, GoldProducer
Creole MineCopper, Tungsten, Silver, Bismuth, GoldPast Producer1910, 1950
Creole MineTungsten, CopperPast Producer
Geyser Basin PropertyUraniumProducer
Harriett MineCopper, Lead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Lincoln Mine GroupSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1845, 1855
Radium Dotsons Warm SpringsGeothermalUnknown
South Black Mountain AditCopperOccurrenceStockwork
Lincoln MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1854

Every working recorded in Beaver County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minersville in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 dust devil, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindMinersville$5,000A tree fell on a power line.
March 2014Dust DevilMinersville$1,000A trampoline was blown out of a backyard and into some power lines in Minersville. Recorded wind gusts in the area at the time were relatively light, so it is likely that this was caused by a strong dust devil. Time listed is approximate.
July 2018Flash FloodMinersville-Heavy rain fell on the Black Mountain Fire burn scar, resulting in a debris flow that temporarily closed State Route 130 near Minersville.
August 2018Flash FloodMinersville-Heavy rain resulted in a flash flood that temporarily closed state Route 21 near milepost 85.

Every storm recorded in Beaver 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
Adamsville7.5 miles15
Cook Corner8.6 miles10
Upton10.7 miles10
Laho10.8 miles10
Greenville11.5 miles15
Thermo13.1 miles9
Milford13.4 miles11
Shenendoah City14.8 miles9

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 MinersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483354The 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 1430376. 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.