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Oak City, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Delta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84649. It lies near Rocky Ridge Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Oak City South quadrangle. 595 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,112 feet above sea level.

Oak City within Millard County

Population over time

2 figures

Oak City grew from 578 to 595 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
2010578
2020595+17 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Oak City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 213,320 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 2 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
Natural78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony6
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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 1999Natural2.0 acresRichfield Field OfficeBIG WASH
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLYN LANE 1
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLYN LANE 2
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestTV
8 September 2019Natural23 acresRichfield Field OfficeCLAY
7 September 1993Natural1.0 acresFishlake National Forestnot named
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestGRAVEL PIT
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined41 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPURPLE SAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oak City: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit 14060Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14058Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #14058Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #14059Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerQuartzite
Utah Highway Dept. Borrow Pit #14060Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak City in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 2 flash flood, 1 debris flow. 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
September 2012Flash FloodOak City$100,000Heavy rain over the Clay Springs burn scar caused a debris flow on the afternoon of September 1st. Four homes in the Fools Creek area experienced flooded basements, and one yard was severely damaged. In addition, a single wide trailer in the same area was pushed off its foundation. Six to eight inches of mud and debris crossed Highway 125, causing some damage along the edges of the roadway.
September 2014Flash FloodOak City-Heavy rain over the Clay Springs burn scar caused a minor debris flow, sending rocks and debris onto State Route 125.
September 2013Debris FlowOak City-Heavy rain over the Clay Springs Fire burn scar caused significant debris flows out of both the Fool Creek and Oak Creek drainages. However, prior mitigation efforts in Oak City protected homes from damage and flooding.

Every storm recorded in Millard 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
Strong8.2 miles16
Harding9.0 miles16
Lynndyl10.2 miles15
Mack11.0 miles15
Leamington11.4 miles15
McCornick11.7 miles15
Delta12.9 miles16
Scipio15.2 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 Oak CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483628The 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 1444013. 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.