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Portage, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Howell-Snowville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84331. It lies near Water Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Portage quadrangle. 273 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,367 feet above sea level.

Portage within Box Elder County

Population over time

2 figures

Portage grew from 245 to 273 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
2010245
2020273+28 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Portage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,083 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 1997Natural10 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestBURNETT CANYON
3 September 2008Debris and open burning100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASAKIE
3 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWASHAKIE
20 September 2009Natural21 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestNIEL
20 September 2009Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBURNETT CANYON
17 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined390 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBRUSH CANYON
1 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPORTAGE CANYON ENTRANCE
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestELGROVE SPRING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Portage: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Price S Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Briggs & Box Elder CountySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Briggs and Box Elder Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J. Allen #02045 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
J.Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Limekiln Knoll GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Limekiln Knoll GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
R. Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
R.Nelson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut.Dept.Of Highways Pit No.02046Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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
Washakie2.2 miles10
Plymouth7.7 miles10
Fielding12.1 miles10
Wheelon12.9 miles10
Riverside13.2 miles9
Beaver Dam13.9 miles10
Collinston15.1 miles10
Blue Creek15.4 miles9

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 PortageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483377The 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 1681817. 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.