Randlett, Utah
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84063. The Survey maps it on the Randlett quadrangle. 184 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,816 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresRandlett fell from 224 to 184 between 2000 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 224 | |
| 2010 | 220 | -4 (-2%) |
| 2020 | 184 | -36 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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 Ashley quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1917 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Randlett quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Vernal quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
150 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Randlett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 985 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Smoking | 19 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 17 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Fireworks | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Uintah and Ouray Agency | GUN RANGE |
| 6 September 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | L CHICAGO |
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | NATCHES |
| 3 September 2004 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | JAILHOUSE |
| 26 September 1994 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | FOOTHILLS |
| 16 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Uintah and Ouray Agency | SUNSHINE ACRES |
| 16 September 1992 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Uintah and Ouray Agency | JORDAN |
| 15 September 2016 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Uintah and Ouray Agency | SOUTH RANDLETT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Randlett in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Randlett | $12,000 | Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding in the Randlett area. Fast flowing water from 1 to 3 feet deep washed out several driveways and cut a deep gully across a road that branches off of 7500 East. Many agricultural fields were flooded, inundating irrigation sprinkler systems. |
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Randlett | - | A funnel cloud was reported with a severe thunderstorm moving into far western Uinta County near the Leland Bench and Pelican Lake area. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Randlett | - | Hail up to golf ball size pummeled the Randlett area, damaging crops and gardens. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Randlett | - | Nickel-size hail pummeled the oil and gas fields in west-central Uintah County. |
| September 2006 | Heavy Rain | Randlett | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Randlett | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Randlett | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Duchesne | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Gusher | 4.8 miles | 16 | |
| Independence | 6.8 miles | 16 | |
| Ballard | 8.2 miles | 17 | |
| Leota | 8.8 miles | 17 | |
| Lapoint | 11.8 miles | 17 | |
| Bennett | 11.9 miles | 17 | |
| Ouray | 12.1 miles | 17 |
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 Randlett | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2346287 | The 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 1431565. 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.
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.






