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Price, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Price census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84501. It stands on Meads Wash. The Survey maps it on the Price quadrangle. 8,216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,627 feet above sea level.

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Price within Carbon County

On record in Price

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 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Price fell from 8,715 to 8,216 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
20108,715
20208,216-499 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

8 of 33 photographs shown, 1936

Taken 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.

Utah coal town housing. Consumers, near Price, Utah. Mines owned and controlled by absentee capital in the East
Utah coal town housing. Consumers, near Price, Utah. Mines owned and controlled by absentee capital in the East
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Consumers, near Price, Utah. View of company-owned houses. Utah coal town
Consumers, near Price, Utah. View of company-owned houses. Utah coal town
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Utah coal miner. Consumers, near Price, Utah
Utah coal miner. Consumers, near Price, Utah
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Consumers. Blue Blaze coal mine. Near Price, Utah
Consumers. Blue Blaze coal mine. Near Price, Utah
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Main street in a Utah coal mining settlement. Consumers, near Price
Main street in a Utah coal mining settlement. Consumers, near Price
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Consumers, near Price, Utah. Housing in Utah coal town
Consumers, near Price, Utah. Housing in Utah coal town
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Blue Blaze coal mine. Consumers, near Price, Utah
Blue Blaze coal mine. Consumers, near Price, Utah
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress
Miner's home, company-owned. Blue Blaze Coal Company. Consumers, near Price, Utah
Miner's home, company-owned. Blue Blaze Coal Company. Consumers, near Price, Utah
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1936. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Carbon County

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Price between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning22
Recreation and ceremony22
Natural21
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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 2017Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeMARSING
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCARBONVILLE
7 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWOODHILL
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCONSUMERS
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreSoutheast AreaMEADS WASH
5 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROADSIDE
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMoab Field OfficeGORDON CREEK
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCOAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Price: 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Industrial Center Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerChert, Limestone, Sandstone
Lowdermilk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerLimestone, Sandstone
Lowdermilk Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Limestone, Sandstone
Unknown Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #04011Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04011Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04012Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Limestone, Sandstone
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04020Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 2002Thunderstorm WindPrice$300,000Severe thunderstorm winds hit the area near Price, with most damage reported in Miller Creek. The strongest recorded wind was 58 mph (50 kts) at the Price Airport. However, 4 miles to the south in Miller Creek, the winds lifted a mobile home off its foundation and destroyed the structure. A roof was torn off another home and onto another. causing heavy damage. A horse was killed by flying debris. A total of 12 houses were damaged, along with a barn and a corral.
August 2017HailPrice-Nickel-sized hail was reported near Price.
September 2016Flash FloodPrice-Flash flooding was reported in Price and other surrounding areas, including near the Book Cliffs.
July 2011Flash FloodPrice-Flash flooding was reported on Gordon Creek, west of Price, after a radar-estimated 3 to 4 inches of rain fell over the area.
October 2010HailPrice-Nickel size (0.88 inch diameter) hail was reported near Price.
June 2006HailPrice-Estimated size...reported by NSSL. 1" hail also reported in Sunnyside and Wellington about the same time.
September 2006HailPrice-Large thunderstorms associated with a cold front produced 1.25" to 1.5" hail reported in numerous location in and just east of Price.
August 2005HailPrice-Hail fell for 20 min in downtown Price
July 2001Tornado (F0)Price-An F0 tornado was spotted over open country about 10 miles southwest of Price.
June 1997FloodPrice-A strong thunderstorm caused heavy rain to fall in the town of Price. Street flooding occurred due to this heavy downpour. A spotter in Price measured 1.61" of rain on this date.
September 2006HailPrice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Wood Hill0.8 miles19
Carbonville1.9 miles19
Spring Glen4.7 miles20
Wellington5.6 miles19
Kenilworth6.1 miles20
Helper6.3 miles20
Wildcat6.7 miles18
Martin7.7 miles20

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 PriceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482891The 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 1431465. 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.