Rush Valley, Utah
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rush Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84069. The Survey maps it on the Saint John quadrangle. 431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,043 feet above sea level.
On record in Rush Valley
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 2 records
Davis, David E. Houselisted 2007- Clover Ward LDS Meetinghouselisted 2025
Population over time
2 figuresRush Valley fell from 447 to 431 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 | 447 | |
| 2020 | 431 | -16 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 22 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 Tooele Valley quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1918 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1979 USGS Rush Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Saint John quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Saint John quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
94 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Rush Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,830 acres in total. 36 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | RUSH LAKE |
| 3 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | RUSH VALLEY |
| 3 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | CLOVERSIDE |
| 28 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 720 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | RUSH LAKE |
| 26 September 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HOGANS ROAD |
| 22 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PENNYS CONTROL BURN |
| 14 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | BIG |
| 13 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | RUSSELL LANE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rush Valley: 8 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan:S Warm Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Morgan Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 23112 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut Dept of Hwys Gravel Pit No 23030 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 23112 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut. Dept of Hwys Gravel Pit #23101 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut. Dept of Hwys Gravel Pit No. 23031 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut. Dept of Hwys Gravel Pit No. 23102 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Ut. Dept. of Hwys Gravel Pit No 23113 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rush Valley in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1995 | Hail | Rush Valley | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint John | 0.6 miles | 22 | |
| Clover | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Stockton | 7.8 miles | 22 | |
| Center | 8.2 miles | 22 | |
| Bauer | 8.9 miles | 22 | |
| West Mercur | 9.7 miles | 23 | |
| Terra | 9.8 miles | 18 | |
| Ophir | 10.2 miles | 23 |
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 Rush Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482495 | 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 1699809. 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.







