Moroni, Utah
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84646. The Survey maps it on the Moroni quadrangle. 1,544 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,531 feet above sea level.
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On record in Moroni
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 4 records
Jabez Faux House And Barnlisted 1976
Moroni High School Mechanical Arts Buildinglisted 1985
Moroni Opera Houselisted 1996
Mortensen-Nelson Houselisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresMoroni grew from 1,423 to 1,544 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 | 1,423 | |
| 2020 | 1,544 | +121 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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 Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Moroni quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Moroni quadrangle1:24000
- 1983 USGS Moroni Gap quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
63 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Moroni between 1994 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WALES RESERVOIR |
| 5 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | JUNCTION SPOT |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PIG FIRE |
| 4 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 515 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BLUE HILLS |
| 15 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Central Area | JERUSALEM |
| 12 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PETES CANYON |
| 4 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CHAPMAN FIRE |
| 30 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ROLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Moroni: 25 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moroni North Sandstone Prospects | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Wales Tufa Deposit | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Bruno's Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Chester - Highway 89 Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Chester Ponds Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sandstone | |
| Chester Ponds Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Chester-Highway 89 Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Moroni Canal Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Spring Ditch Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel |
Storms near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moroni in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moroni | $10,000 | Thunderstorm/microburst winds destroyed roof on a turkey hatchery. |
| September 2009 | Hail | Moroni | - | Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near Moroni. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom | 3.3 miles | 19 | |
| Wales | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Chester | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Jerusalem | 4.5 miles | 19 | |
| Spring City | 5.8 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Pleasant | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Pigeon Hollow Junction | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Fountain Green | 7.6 miles | 18 |
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 Moroni | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482849 | 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 1430498. 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.








