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Paradise, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Hyrum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84328. It lies near McMurdie Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Paradise quadrangle. 971 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,902 feet above sea level.

Paradise within Cache County

On record in Paradise

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Paradise grew from 904 to 971 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
2010904
2020971+67 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 1940

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Marion Olsen of Paradise, Cache County, Utah, is a Farm Security Administration "graduate." He has borrowed and paid back twelve thousand dollars since 1936, and can now finance himself or get credit from his local bank. Olsen is shown with his little daughter in front of the family home, on which it was possible to spend three hundred dollars of farm profit for repairs this year
Marion Olsen of Paradise, Cache County, Utah, is a Farm Security Administration "graduate." He has borrowed and paid back twelve thousand dollars since 1936, and can now finance himself or get credit from his local bank. Olsen is shown with his little daughter in front of the family home, on which it was possible to spend three hundred dollars of farm profit for repairs this year
Photographer not recorded, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Paradise between 1992 and 2019, burning about 447 acres in total. 9 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/undetermined21
Debris and open burning11
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
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
4 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYRUM BLVD
13 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTROY PARKER
9 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEST CANYON
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGOSHEN
30 August 2019Natural1.8 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYRUM DRY
28 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use9.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEST CANYON 2
21 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYRUM DAM
2 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPISGAH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Paradise: 16 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zinc, Lead, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silver, Lead. 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
Hyrum Canyon ClaimIron, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceGalena, Jarosite, Marcasite, Siderite, Sphalerite
Hyrum Canyon ClaimLead, Zinc, IronPast Producer
Lead KingSilver, LeadOccurrenceReplacement
Moon MineZinc, Lead, Iron, Silver, Copper, GoldPast Producer1915
Moon MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Iron, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Cache Concrete Co PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cache Concrete Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Highway Dept No 3023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paradise in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
September 1997HailParadise$10,000no account filed

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
Avon2.8 miles18
Hyrum4.6 miles17
Mount Sterling6.0 miles19
Greens Corner6.7 miles17
Wellsville7.0 miles17
Nibley7.3 miles17
Holt7.4 miles17
College Ward7.8 miles17

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 ParadiseAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482799The 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 1444178. 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.