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Richmond, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Lewiston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84333. The Survey maps it on the Richmond quadrangle. 2,914 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,610 feet above sea level.

Richmond within Cache County

On record in Richmond

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 18 shown

Every listing in Cache County

Population over time

3 figures

Richmond grew from 817 to 2,914 between 1870 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
1870817
20102,470
20202,914+444 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Richmond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 317 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands200 WEST
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGARR C.
3 September 2005Natural23 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestNORTH FORK WFU
14 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHERRY CREEK 1
13 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRICHMOND
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAYOR FIRE
1 September 2005Natural1.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCHERRY PEAK
7 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMENDANHALL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Richmond: 11 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper, Iron. 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
Egan ClaimLead, Iron, Barium-BariteOccurrenceBarite, Galena, Pyrite, Siderite
Egan ClaimLead, Iron, Barium-BaritePast Producer
Left Fork City CreekLead, IronPast Producer
Left Fork City Creek ProspectLead, IronOccurrenceGalena, Pyrite, Siderite
Smithfield Canyon ClaimCopperOccurrenceMalachite
Smithfield Canyon ClaimCopperPast Producer
Cherty Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Cherty Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
High Creek Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
High Creek Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richmond in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindRichmond$55,000A large barn was knocked down in Richmond and several trees were reported down across the area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRichmond$35,000Strong thunderstorm winds caused damage in Richmond, snapping trees and telephone poles.
June 2017FloodRichmond$10,000The Logan River exceeded flood stage several times through the first two weeks of June, with the gauge near Logan peaking at 1450 cfs on the morning of June 6. The flooding resulted in the closure of multiple campgrounds and other recreation areas in Logan Canyon, but otherwise mitigation and sandbagging helped prevent further damages.
April 2026Tornado (EF1)Richmond-The tornado is estimated to have touched down at 2:25PM MT approximately 1 mile south of the Sink Rd./HWY 89 intersection in far northwestern Rich county. The tornado promptly produced EF-1 damage snapping a few softwood trees. The tornado continued tracking north along the terrain into Cache county, increasing in width and producing a notably wider swath of softwood tree damage consistent with an EF-1 rating. The tornado then took a slight turn to the northeast and slightly weakened, producing a few more instances of EF-1 damage to softwood trees before dissipating in far southern Cache county at around 2:27PM. The maximum width of this tornado was 100 yards with a path length of 0.44 miles. Special thanks to the Cache and Rich county emergency managers for the assistance getting to the damage location, and another special thanks to our local spotters for reporting the damage.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRichmond-A wind gust of 63 mph was recorded at the Peter Sinks Rim mesonet site.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRichmond-The Peter Sinks sensor recorded a peak gust of 60 mph.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRichmond-A large tree was uprooted by strong winds.

Every storm recorded in Cache 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
Cove2.8 miles15
Lewiston4.3 miles15
White Horse Village4.6 miles18
Smithfield5.9 miles18
Amalga6.1 miles16
Trenton6.8 miles15
Cardon7.0 miles18
Morton7.2 miles15

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 RichmondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q129991The 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 1444892. 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.