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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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Nephi within Juab County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Nephi 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.

YearPeople Change
20105,389
20206,443+1,054 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

163 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined59
Natural40
Equipment and vehicle use40
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSR 28 MM 37
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsELEVATOR ROAD
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
29 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILKES
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGOLF COURSE
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,681 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBIRCH
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHOWARD
21 September 2019Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWINDMILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rowleys Mine & QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Nephi Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Nephi Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12034Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12035Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut. Dept. of Hwys. No. 12034Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. of Hwys. Pit # 12010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Juab County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNephi$5,000no account filed
August 2025Flash FloodNephi-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 2012HailNephi-Penny to quarter sized hail was reported on Interstate 15 between mile markers 230 and 235.
June 2005HailNephi-0.88" Hail covering the ground
July 2001HailNephi-A severe thunderstorm deposited 1" diameter hail in Nephi.
April 2005Heavy RainNephi-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindNephi-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudNephi-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juab 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
Gypsum Mill1.7 miles21
Sharp6.6 miles19
Mona7.4 miles19
Levan10.6 miles20
Starr11.0 miles19
Juab14.3 miles19
Rocky Ridge14.8 miles19
Dennis15.6 miles16

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 NephiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q130153The 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.