Roy, Utah
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Ogden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84067. The Survey maps it on the Roy quadrangle. 39,306 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,541 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRoy grew from 36,884 to 39,306 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 36,884 | |
| 2020 | 39,306 | +2,422 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1954 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Roy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1987 USGS Promontory Point quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Roy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1999 USGS Roy quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 photographs, 2022Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
53 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Roy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 700 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 5145 AIRPORT RD |
| 9 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WEBER RIVER |
| 28 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | JET WAY |
| 23 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MM339 I-15 |
| 20 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | OCTAGON FIRE |
| 8 August 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PETERSON |
| 4 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | UINTAH FIRE |
| 31 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HOOPER POND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Roy: 17 prospects, 6 producers, 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. 6 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarence Waterfall Gravel Pits | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| South Weber Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unidentified Occurrence | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Unidentified Occurrence | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #06002 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #06009 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29001 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29002 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect |
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roy in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 5 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2016 | Tornado (EF1) | Roy | 5 hurt, $2,000,000 | A tornado touched down in Riverdale in Weber County. The tornado moved rapidly to the northeast, but was not consistently on the ground. It skipped on several occasions in Riverdale, producing primarily EF0 damage to trees and a several homes. The tornado then produced a more continuous swath of damage through Washington Terrace producing EF1 damage to numerous homes, structures, as well as many trees. Finally, the tornado skipped briefly into South Ogden producing EF0 damage before dissipating. One person suffered a head injury and took private transportation to a hospital. A few others were cut by flying glass, but were not hospitalized. The many downed trees across the area caused widespread power outages, with over 37,000 customers impacted. Approximately 12 homes in Washington Terrace were so damaged that they were deemed uninhabitable until repaired, and a total of about 30 homes were damaged across Weber County. |
| May 1998 | Heavy Rain | Roy | $80,000 | no account filed |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Roy | $60,000 | Over an inch of rain occurred in an hours time in weber county during the early morning. At least a dozen homes in the town of Roy experienced basement flooding. A 24-hour rain total of 2.05" was reported from a spotter in Roy. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Roy | $18,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roy | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds knocked a large tree onto a house near Roy. The time of the event is estimated. |
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roy | $3,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down a large tree and several large tree branches near Layton. Twenty-five minutes later, the Ogden Peak mesonet site recorded a wind gust of 61 mph. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roy | - | Shingle damage occurred to a home. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roy | - | Large branches were knocked down in Roy. |
| August 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roy | - | Severe thunderstorms in Weber County brought a 70 mph (65 kts) wind gust to the city of Roy. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosewood Estates | 0.3 miles | 14 | |
| Municipal Acres | 0.4 miles | 14 | |
| Purser | 0.4 miles | 14 | |
| Arsenal Villa | 0.4 miles | 14 | |
| Roy Park Addition | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| English Manor | 0.5 miles | 14 | |
| Royset Park Addition and Annex | 0.6 miles | 14 | |
| Brownscott Manor | 0.6 miles | 14 |
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 Roy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q130167 | 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 1432035. 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.






