Provo, Utah

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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 of 43 shown

• Reed O. Smoot HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975
• William D. Alexander Houselisted 1983
• Dr. Samuel H. Allen House and Carriage Houselisted 1979
• Amanda Knight Halllisted 2021
• Beebe, Angus, George and Martha Ansil, Houselisted 1980
• John E. Booth Houselisted 1982
• George M. Brown Houselisted 1982
• Clark-Taylor Houselisted 1975
• Harvey H. Cluff Houselisted 1982
• Charles E. Davies Houselisted 1982
• Simon P. Sr. Eggertsen Houselisted 1977
• Joseph H. Frisby Houselisted 1984

Every listing in Utah County

Surveyed buildings and structures 6 records

• Heber Creeper Railroad Line, Following course of Provo River, between Provo & Heber City, Provofederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Heber Creeper Railroad Line, Olmstead Bridge, Spanning Provo River, Provofederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Heber Creeper Railroad Line, Section from Bridal Veil Falls to Vivian Park, Between Provo & Heber City, Provofederal building survey, 19 photographs
• Heber Creeper Railroad Line, Vivian Park Bridge, Spanning South Fork of Provo River, Provofederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Provo Brickyard, Turbine House, 1620 North 200 West Street, Provofederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Provo River Bridge, 625 West Columbia Lane, Provofederal building survey, 12 photographs

Provo grew from 2,030 to 115,162 between 1860 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.

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.

• 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
• 1948 USGS Provo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1949 USGS Provo quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Provo quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Provo quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Provo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Provo quadrangle1:24000

1 chapter about Provo from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Provo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,275 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 22 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ironton
• Pleasant View
• Springville
• Lakeview
• Caryhurst
• Curtis

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Provo: 20 past producers, 14 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Utah County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Provo in 23 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 18 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 15 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Utah County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1444661. 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.