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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.

Roy within Weber County

Population over time

2 figures

Roy 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.

YearPeople Change
201036,884
202039,306+2,422 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

2 photographs, 2022

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.

Ticket booth of Peery's Egyptian Theater, built by the brothers Louis and Harman Peery as an Egyptian-themed grand movie palace in 1924 on the site of the Arlington Hotel, destroyed by fire in Ogden, a city north of the state capital of Salt Lake City
Ticket booth of Peery's Egyptian Theater, built by the brothers Louis and Harman Peery as an Egyptian-themed grand movie palace in 1924 on the site of the Arlington Hotel, destroyed by fire in Ogden, a city north of the state capital of Salt Lake City
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Elaborate artwork behind the ticket booth of Peery's Egyptian Theater, built by the brothers Louis and Harman Peery as an Egyptian-themed grand movie palace in 1924 on the site of the Arlington Hotel, destroyed by fire in Ogden, a city north of the state capital of Salt Lake City
Elaborate artwork behind the ticket booth of Peery's Egyptian Theater, built by the brothers Louis and Harman Peery as an Egyptian-themed grand movie palace in 1924 on the site of the Arlington Hotel, destroyed by fire in Ogden, a city north of the state capital of Salt Lake City
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

53 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Fireworks3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5145 AIRPORT RD
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEBER RIVER
28 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJET WAY
23 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMM339 I-15
20 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOCTAGON FIRE
8 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPETERSON
4 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined600 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUINTAH FIRE
31 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHOOPER POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clarence Waterfall Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
South Weber Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #06002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #06009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29001Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Weber County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2016Tornado (EF1)Roy5 hurt, $2,000,000A 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 1998Heavy RainRoy$80,000no account filed
June 1997Flash FloodRoy$60,000Over 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 1998Tornado (F0)Roy$18,000no account filed
May 2016Thunderstorm WindRoy$3,000Thunderstorm winds knocked a large tree onto a house near Roy. The time of the event is estimated.
August 2008Thunderstorm WindRoy$3,000Strong 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 2022Thunderstorm WindRoy-Shingle damage occurred to a home.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRoy-Large branches were knocked down in Roy.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindRoy-Severe thunderstorms in Weber County brought a 70 mph (65 kts) wind gust to the city of Roy.

Every storm recorded in Weber 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
Rosewood Estates0.3 miles14
Municipal Acres0.4 miles14
Purser0.4 miles14
Arsenal Villa0.4 miles14
Roy Park Addition0.5 miles14
English Manor0.5 miles14
Royset Park Addition and Annex0.6 miles14
Brownscott Manor0.6 miles14

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 RoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q130167The 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.