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.
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
John P. and Sarah James Houselisted 1994
McMurdie-White Farmsteadlisted 2005
Paradise Tithing Officelisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresParadise 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 904 | |
| 2020 | 971 | +67 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 18 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.
- 1914 USGS Logan quadrangle1:125000
- 1916 USGS Logan quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ogden quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Logan quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1991 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1940Taken 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.
Photographer not recorded, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
51 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2006 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYRUM BLVD |
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TROY PARKER |
| 9 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WEST CANYON |
| 4 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GOSHEN |
| 30 August 2019 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYRUM DRY |
| 28 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WEST CANYON 2 |
| 21 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYRUM DAM |
| 2 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PISGAH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 21 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyrum Canyon Claim | Iron, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Galena, Jarosite, Marcasite, Siderite, Sphalerite | |
| Hyrum Canyon Claim | Lead, Zinc, Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Lead King | Silver, Lead | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Moon Mine | Zinc, Lead, Iron, Silver, Copper, Gold | Past Producer | 1915 | |
| Moon Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Iron, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Phosphate Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence | ||
| Phosphate Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Cache Concrete Co Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Cache Concrete Co. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Highway Dept No 3023 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Hail | Paradise | $10,000 | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avon | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Hyrum | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Mount Sterling | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| Greens Corner | 6.7 miles | 17 | |
| Wellsville | 7.0 miles | 17 | |
| Nibley | 7.3 miles | 17 | |
| Holt | 7.4 miles | 17 | |
| College Ward | 7.8 miles | 17 |
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 Paradise | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482799 | 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 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.








