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Palmyra, Utah

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Spanish Fork-Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84660. The Survey maps it on the Provo quadrangle. 443 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,524 feet above sea level.

Palmyra within Utah County

Population over time

2 figures

Palmyra fell from 491 to 443 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
2010491
2020443-48 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,118 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined111
Debris and open burning57
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
7 September 2002Other causesunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOUT HOUSE FIRE
6 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALEM CANAL FIRE
5 September 2001Debris and open burning7.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHEPHERD
5 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsACE
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSWEDE LANE
4 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHINGLE
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFARMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Palmyra: 12 producers, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Silver, Lead, Gold. 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
Clay Canyon DepositGemstoneProducer
MilkmaidSilver, Lead, GoldPast ProducerReplacement
Silver Hill PropertyManganeseProducer
UnknownLimestone, GeneralProducer
Us Ferto CorpPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dep of Hwys No 25045Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dep of Hwys No 25049Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dep of Hwys No 25050Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 25023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Utah 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
Lake Shore2.1 miles21
Leland2.9 miles21
Spanish Fork2.9 miles21
Benjamin3.4 miles21
Lewis3.8 miles21
Springville5.0 miles22
Ironton5.9 miles22
Salem6.2 miles21

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 PalmyraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1895185The 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 1444167. 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.