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Sandy City, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84070. The Survey maps it on the Midvale quadrangle. 96,904 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,449 feet above sea level.

Sandy City within Salt Lake County

On record in Sandy City

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 within a mile 12 of 51 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Salt Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Sandy City grew from 87,461 to 96,904 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
201087,461
202096,904+9,443 (+11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sandy City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTONYA
1 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeQUAIL HOLLOW
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSIENNA
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
12 July 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUNION ASSIST
7 June 1997Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMURDOCK
29 June 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVER
21 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands963 W MOGUL PEAK RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Sandy City: 20 producers, 11 past producers, 9 occurrences. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead. 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
Blue Jay ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Cottonwood Clay PitsClayProducer
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Dipper MineGoldPast Producer1925, 1946
Josephine Tunnel ProspectGoldOccurrenceUnderground
Beehive Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Beehive Sand and Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cottonwood Heights Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Draper Gravel Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Draper Gravel Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy City in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2000Thunderstorm WindSandy City$20,000Strong thunderstorm winds in Sandy sent a large tree onto several cars, and knocked other trees onto a house and several power lines.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSandy City$1,000A tree with a diameter of approximately 3 inches was knocked down by thunderstorm winds in Sandy.
May 2015HailSandy City-Nickel sized hail was reported in Sandy.
May 2015HailSandy City-Nickel sized hail was reported near Sandy, Utah.
August 2010HailSandy City-Penny-sized hail, or hail of approximately 0.75 inches in diameter, was reported near Sandy.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindSandy City-Shingles blown off a roof, numerous small branches down
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSandy City-Microburst wind gusts to 61 mph (53 kts) knocked over two 40' trees in Sandy.
August 1999HailSandy City-A severe thunderstorm dropped 3/4 inch hail along Fort Union Blvd. in Sandy.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSandy City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Endot1.0 miles24
Midvale1.6 miles24
White City2.1 miles25
Union2.1 miles25
Lampton2.4 miles24
Crescent2.8 miles24
Atwood2.9 miles25
Little Cottonwood Creek Valley3.0 miles25

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 Sandy CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q52470The 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 1455905. 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.