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Orangeville, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Castle Dale-Huntington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84537. It stands on Bolden Wash. The Survey maps it on the Castle Dale quadrangle. 1,224 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,778 feet above sea level.

Orangeville within Emery County

Population over time

2 figures

Orangeville fell from 1,470 to 1,224 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
20101,470
20201,224-246 (-17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

17 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Orangeville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
27 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeDANISH BENCH
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJAKE
12 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAGNUSON 57
31 August 2006Debris and open burning1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCASTLE DALE
4 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCOAL
20 July 2014Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeGRIMES
20 July 2014Natural1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGRIMES
10 July 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSoutheast AreaCOAL HAUL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Orangeville: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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
Cedar, Buzzard, and Johnson BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Cottonwood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cottonwood Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Huntington & Cottonwood BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Huntington and Cottonwood BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Huntington and Cottonwood BenchesSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceLimestone, Sandstone
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah State Dept of Highways Pit # 08014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Utah State Highway Dept. Pit 08016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Emery County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangeville in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 2 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 WindOrangeville$5,000Emery County EM reported multiple trees down along with numerous large branches in Orangeville as a result of strong outflow winds. Time estimated by EM's report.
August 2022Flash FloodOrangeville$1,000Emery County dispatch reported state Route 29 was impassible from milepost 9 to Joes Valley Reservoir. Up to a foot of mud and debris was deposited across the road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOrangeville-The Orangeville - Agrimet CSDU mesonet station recorded an initial peak wind gust of 62 mph and a subsequent gust of 61 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
August 2018Flash FloodOrangeville-Heavy rain caused a large debris flow on the Trail Mountain Fire burn scar that clogged retention structures.
August 2014Flash FloodOrangeville-Flash flooding closed Utah State Route 29 between Castle Dale and Joe's Valley, with water and rocks covering the roadway.

Every storm recorded in Emery 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
Castle Dale2.1 miles19
Clawson6.9 miles19
Lawrence8.1 miles15
Huntington8.3 miles15
Molen9.6 miles19
Ferron10.1 miles20
Ferron Mill11.2 miles20
Cleveland13.6 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 OrangevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482419The 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 1431021. 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.