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.
Population over time
2 figuresOrangeville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,470 | |
| 2020 | 1,224 | -246 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
- 1923 USGS Castle Dale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1925 USGS Castle Dale quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Manti quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Castle Dale quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 2000Regional 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 burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | DANISH BENCH |
| 2 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | JAKE |
| 12 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MAGNUSON 57 |
| 31 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | CASTLE DALE |
| 4 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | COAL |
| 20 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | GRIMES |
| 20 July 2014 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GRIMES |
| 10 July 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Southeast Area | COAL HAUL ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar, Buzzard, and Johnson Benches | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Limestone, Sandstone | |
| Cottonwood Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Cottonwood Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Huntington & Cottonwood Benches | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Huntington and Cottonwood Benches | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Limestone, Sandstone | |
| Huntington and Cottonwood Benches | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Limestone, Sandstone | |
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08014 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08016 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah State Dept of Highways Pit # 08014 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Utah State Highway Dept. Pit 08016 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
5 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orangeville | $5,000 | Emery 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 2022 | Flash Flood | Orangeville | $1,000 | Emery 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orangeville | - | 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Orangeville | - | Heavy rain caused a large debris flow on the Trail Mountain Fire burn scar that clogged retention structures. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Orangeville | - | Flash flooding closed Utah State Route 29 between Castle Dale and Joe's Valley, with water and rocks covering the roadway. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castle Dale | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| Clawson | 6.9 miles | 19 | |
| Lawrence | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Huntington | 8.3 miles | 15 | |
| Molen | 9.6 miles | 19 | |
| Ferron | 10.1 miles | 20 | |
| Ferron Mill | 11.2 miles | 20 | |
| Cleveland | 13.6 miles | 13 |
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 Orangeville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482419 | The 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.








