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.
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
Jenner-Griffiths Houselisted 1985
Minersville City Halllisted 1985
Rollins-Eyre Houselisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresMinersville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 907 | |
| 2020 | 807 | -100 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1885 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Minersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Minersville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | GOULES |
| 9 September 2000 | Smoking | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | HANGING RK |
| 8 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | JACKS PEAK |
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | CHECKERBOARD |
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | HANGING ROCK |
| 3 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BURN PERMIT |
| 27 September 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Cedar City Field Office | MINERSVILLE DAM |
| 24 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | COW PATH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 40 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Maple Area | Manganese | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Creole | Tungsten, Copper, Iron, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold | Producer | ||
| Creole Mine | Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Bismuth, Gold | Past Producer | 1910, 1950 | |
| Creole Mine | Tungsten, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Geyser Basin Property | Uranium | Producer | ||
| Harriett Mine | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Lincoln Mine Group | Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1845, 1855 | |
| Radium Dotsons Warm Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| South Black Mountain Adit | Copper | Occurrence | Stockwork | |
| Lincoln Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | 1854 |
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Minersville | $5,000 | A tree fell on a power line. |
| March 2014 | Dust Devil | Minersville | $1,000 | A 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Minersville | - | Heavy rain fell on the Black Mountain Fire burn scar, resulting in a debris flow that temporarily closed State Route 130 near Minersville. |
| August 2018 | Flash Flood | Minersville | - | Heavy rain resulted in a flash flood that temporarily closed state Route 21 near milepost 85. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adamsville | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Cook Corner | 8.6 miles | 10 | |
| Upton | 10.7 miles | 10 | |
| Laho | 10.8 miles | 10 | |
| Greenville | 11.5 miles | 15 | |
| Thermo | 13.1 miles | 9 | |
| Milford | 13.4 miles | 11 | |
| Shenendoah City | 14.8 miles | 9 |
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 Minersville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483354 | 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 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.





