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Peoa, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Kamas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84061. It stands on Fort Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kamas quadrangle. 249 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,312 feet above sea level.

Peoa within Summit County

On record in Peoa

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

Peoa fell from 253 to 249 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
2010253
2020249-4 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Peoa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 405 acres in total. 16 started naturally. None 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 burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural16
Fireworks6
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
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
6 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDOG HOLLOW
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROB YOUNG POLE
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsI CAN HELP
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOUNTAIN MEADOW
28 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPEOA
23 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROCKPORT PARK
21 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBOULDERVILLE WIRE
19 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNORTH BENCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Peoa: 11 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. 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
Big KUraniumOccurrence
Utelite Clay Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Utelite Clay Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Brown's Canyon QuarriesStone, DimensionPast Producer
Browns Canyon QuarriesStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mountain Meadows QuarriesStone, DimensionPast Producer
Mountain Meadows QuarriesStone, DimensionPast Producer
Marion Cemetery Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Marion Cemetery Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 22006Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peoa in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 3 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
June 2010FloodPeoa$5,000,000Flooding was reported along the Weber River from Oakley to Hoytsville. The gauge on the Weber River near Oakley exceeded the flood stage of 4.5 feet on June 6th, with flooding continuing into June 10th. The gauge reached a peak of 3179 cfs on the evening of June 8th. ||Damage was reported in the communities of Oakley and Peoa, with water going over the top of some bridges and ending up in homes. Many homes and summer cabins were damaged, especially in basements and yards. Much of the damage occurred to structures at the mouth of the upper Weber River, and in homes along State Route 21 in Oakley. Residents used sandbags in several areas to try to control some of the flooding. Flood waters also ran over a portion of State Route 32, causing the road to close.
July 2011FloodPeoa$50,000Flooding continued on the Upper Weber River in early July, with the Weber at Oakley gauge peaking at 3390 cfs on July 1st. Much of this flooding up to Rockport Reservoir was mitigated, but once the Rockport Reservoir was filled, it increased the challenge for people trying to manage the flood threat downstream. At the Camper World downstream in Coalville, many of the 158 RV pads in the park were covered with water, as water flowed from canals in adjoining fields and through broken areas of a berm around the park. The park was evacuated except for employees. Other areas downstream of Rockport Reservoir also experienced minor flooding. Note that this event began in June.
June 2011FloodPeoa$20,000Flooding occurred on the Upper Weber River in late June due to the accelerated snowmelt, with the Weber at Oakley gauge peaking at 3133 cfs on June 30th. Much of this flooding was mitigated, but the high water did impact some buildings close to the river. Note that this event continued into July.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Oakley2.3 miles23
Marion4.6 miles23
Kamas6.5 miles23
Keetley Junction6.8 miles26
Wanship6.9 miles24
Atkinson7.1 miles26
East Basin7.8 miles26
Silver Creek Junction8.3 miles26

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 PeoaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7165443The 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 1444282. 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.