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Newton, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Smithfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84327. It stands on The Slough. The Survey maps it on the Newton quadrangle. 789 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,534 feet above sea level.

Newton within Cache County

On record in Newton

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Newton grew from 789 to 789 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
2010789
20207890 (0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Newton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,138 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined28
Natural8
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLONG DIVIDE I
23 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCUTLER PEAK
18 September 1999Natural2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLONG DIVIDE II
15 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRACK
7 August 1999Natural40 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCOTTPINE LONG DIVIDE
7 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLAYNE HARDY
6 August 2006Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands218
4 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMP2SR142

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Newton: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Trenton Gravel Pit # 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Trenton Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Highways Pit # 03006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Rejected Pit # 03aSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit # 03004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #03004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #03005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #03006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 2009HailNewton-Law enforcement in Cache County observed hail near Newton that they estimated to be the size of golf balls, or 1.75 inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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
Quigley Crossing0.6 miles16
Cache Junction2.0 miles10
Trenton4.6 miles15
Amalga5.0 miles16
Clarkston5.1 miles10
Ballard Junction5.4 miles16
Riverside5.5 miles16
Morton5.7 miles15

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 NewtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482895The 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 1430705. 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.