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Plain City, Utah

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Northwest Weber census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84404. It stands on Fourmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plain City quadrangle. 7,833 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,242 feet above sea level.

Plain City within Weber County

On record in Plain City

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Plain City grew from 5,476 to 7,833 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
20105,476
20207,833+2,357 (+43%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Plain City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,668 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2019Debris and open burning4.3 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIONEER ASSIST
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands12TH STREET
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands4000 N
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,300 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFREEMONT ISLAND FIRE
4 September 2018Debris and open burning4.4 acresBear River AreaSTACK YARD
24 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeHAROLD CRANE UPLAND
21 September 2013Debris and open burning10 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVER BOTTOM
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILLARD BAY DIKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber 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 Plain City: 10 producers, 5 prospects, 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Harrisville Brick DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Harrisville Brick Plant DepositBrick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnnamedClayOccurrence
Utah Hot SpringsManganeseProspect1963
Utah Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Wasatch IronIronOccurrenceHematite
Dereice Balls Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Parcell and Cragun PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Parcell and Cragun PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Parcell and Cragun PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Weber County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plain City in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 flood, 2 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
February 2017FloodPlain City$100,000Heavy rain and snowmelt led to residential basement flooding across portions of Weber County, with damage reported in Farr West, Plain City, and across parts of the Ogden Valley.
June 2011FloodPlain City$100,000The Weber River continued to flood through early June, and became significantly worse when a levee near Plain City broke on June 9th. These flood waters impacted barns and houses along the river, though the houses were spared from interior damage. Many fields and yards across the area were inundated by significant amounts of water.
May 2021HailPlain City-Quarter-sized fell in Plain City.
June 2020HailPlain City-Hail estimated to be golf ball-sized hail was reported by broadcast media.

Every storm recorded in Weber 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
Wakefield0.3 miles12
Wheeler Village Unit Two0.3 miles12
Wheeler Village Unit One0.5 miles12
Rosehill0.8 miles12
Pioneer Village1.0 miles12
Parkvale1.4 miles12
Warren2.2 miles12
Freedom Acres2.5 miles12

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 Plain CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482813The 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 1444471. 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.