Nephi, Utah
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Nephi census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84648. It lies near Miller Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Nephi quadrangle. 6,443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,128 feet above sea level.
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On record in Nephi
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 5 records
Edwin Robert Booth Houselisted 1979
Oscar M. Booth Houselisted 1983
Juab County Jaillisted 1987
US Post Office-Nephi Mainlisted 1989
George Carter Whitmore Mansionlisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresNephi grew from 5,389 to 6,443 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 | 5,389 | |
| 2020 | 6,443 | +1,054 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 21 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 Nephi quadrangle1:62500, 4 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 Nephi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
163 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Nephi between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12,425 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 5 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 | 59 |
| Natural | 40 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 40 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SR 28 MM 37 |
| 5 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ELEVATOR ROAD |
| 29 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | not named |
| 29 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WILKES |
| 29 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GOLF COURSE |
| 27 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,681 acres | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BIRCH |
| 24 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HOWARD |
| 21 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.4 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WINDMILL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Nephi: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rowleys Mine & Quarry | Gypsum-Anhydrite | Unknown | ||
| Nephi Gravel Pit #6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Nephi Gravel Pit #6 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12008 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12009 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12010 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12034 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12035 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut. Dept. of Hwys. No. 12034 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut. Dept. of Hwys. Pit # 12010 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nephi in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nephi | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2025 | Flash Flood | Nephi | - | Heavy rainfall from a thunderstorm falling over steep terrain in Nephi Canyon caused flooding and an associated closure of SR-132 at mile marker 35. A railroad weather station located near the top of the adjacent canyon recorded 0.59 inches of rain in 10 minutes and 0.9 inches of rain in 30 minutes. Time and location are estimated. |
| September 2012 | Hail | Nephi | - | Penny to quarter sized hail was reported on Interstate 15 between mile markers 230 and 235. |
| June 2005 | Hail | Nephi | - | 0.88" Hail covering the ground |
| July 2001 | Hail | Nephi | - | A severe thunderstorm deposited 1" diameter hail in Nephi. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Nephi | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nephi | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Funnel Cloud | Nephi | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gypsum Mill | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Sharp | 6.6 miles | 19 | |
| Mona | 7.4 miles | 19 | |
| Levan | 10.6 miles | 20 | |
| Starr | 11.0 miles | 19 | |
| Juab | 14.3 miles | 19 | |
| Rocky Ridge | 14.8 miles | 19 | |
| Dennis | 15.6 miles | 16 |
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 Nephi | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q130153 | 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 1443793. 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.








