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Paragonah, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Parowan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84760. It stands on Red Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paragonah quadrangle. 536 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,879 feet above sea level.

Paragonah within Iron County

On record in Paragonah

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Paragonah grew from 488 to 536 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
2010488
2020536+48 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

70 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Paragonah between 1995 and 2020, burning about 552 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 2 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning7
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
8 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeBROAD CYN
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCANYON ROAD
22 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouthwest Area400 WEST
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeP HILL
2 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeVALENTINE
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest Area291 WEST
3 August 2019Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeORDER CANYON
28 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPAROWAN CONTROL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Paragonah: 19 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Black Joe #1 & #2ManganeseOccurrence
Cemetary Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cemetery Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerBasalt, Conglomerate, Quartzite, Sand, Sandstone
Dry Canyon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerBasalt, Sandstone
Dry Canyon Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
East Parowan Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
East Parowan Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hurricane Cliffs Barrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Hurricane Cliffs Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Hurricane Cliffs Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paragonah in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 flash flood. 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 1997Flash FloodParagonah$40,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Parowan4.1 miles16
Wheatgrass6.0 miles14
Summit10.3 miles14
Brian Head13.9 miles18
Enoch15.3 miles17
Fort Johnson15.5 miles17
North View16.1 miles18
Cedar City20.9 miles19

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 ParagonahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q385536The 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 1431094. 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.