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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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Moroni within Sanpete County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Moroni 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,423
20201,544+121 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

63 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined16
Natural15
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWALES RESERVOIR
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNCTION SPOT
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIG FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony515 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBLUE HILLS
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral AreaJERUSALEM
12 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPETES CANYON
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHAPMAN FIRE
30 August 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Moroni North Sandstone ProspectsStone, DimensionPast ProducerQuartz
Wales Tufa DepositCalciumOccurrence
Bruno's Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester - Highway 89 Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester-Highway 89 Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Moroni Canal Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Ditch Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMoroni$10,000Thunderstorm/microburst winds destroyed roof on a turkey hatchery.
September 2009HailMoroni-Hail with a diameter of 0.75 inches was reported near Moroni.

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Freedom3.3 miles19
Wales3.5 miles16
Chester3.7 miles16
Jerusalem4.5 miles19
Spring City5.8 miles16
Mount Pleasant7.3 miles16
Pigeon Hollow Junction7.3 miles16
Fountain Green7.6 miles18

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 MoroniAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482849The 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.