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Newcastle, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Beryl-Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84756. The Survey maps it on the Newcastle quadrangle. 330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,276 feet above sea level.

Newcastle within Iron County

Population over time

2 figures

Newcastle grew from 247 to 330 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
2010247
2020330+83 (+34%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Newcastle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 201 acres in total. 56 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
Natural56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest AreaHOLDING POND
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreDixie National ForestWHEAT GRASS
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeSILVER PEAK
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHIGHWAY 56
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest AreaBLUE BOX
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeBOUNDARY
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeBULLION
27 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBERYL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Newcastle: 18 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron. 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
Lucky ChanceCopper, SilverOccurrenceVein
UnknownManganese, BentonitePast Producer
Unknown Clay DepositBentonite, ManganesePast ProducerReplacement
Lucky ChanceSilver, CopperProspect
UnknownIronOccurrence
UnknownSilver, CopperOccurrence
Unknown Iron ProspectIronOccurrenceVein
Black Jack ClaimsManganeseOccurrence
Giant AManganeseOccurrenceVein
Taylor PropertyManganeseOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newcastle in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNewcastle-The Urie hollow mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 1998Tornado (F0)Newcastle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Beryl Junction6.4 miles13
Old Irontown7.0 miles17
Iron Mountain9.1 miles17
Desert Mound14.9 miles16
Beryl16.9 miles13
Yale Crossing17.3 miles13
Iron Springs17.6 miles18
Zane17.9 miles13

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 NewcastleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473218The 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 1443812. 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.