Santaquin, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Spanish Fork-Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84655. It lies near West Park. The Survey maps it on the Santaquin quadrangle. 13,725 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,984 feet above sea level.
On record in Santaquin
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 1 record
Santaquin Junior High Schoollisted 1985
Population over time
2 figuresSantaquin grew from 9,128 to 13,725 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 | 9,128 | |
| 2020 | 13,725 | +4,597 (+50%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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 Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
- 1951 USGS Santaquin quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Santaquin quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Santaquin quadrangle1:24000
What the histories say of this town
857 words1 chapter about Santaquin from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Utah County: a Graphic Account of Its Foundings, Its Wonderful Growth | Utah County: a Graphic Account of Its Foundings, Its Wonderful Growth and Its Splendid Promise for the Future : Also a Descriptive Review of Its Resources, Attractions, Industries, Leading Business Houses and Institutions, with Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Early Settlers (1897) | 857 words |
Fires near this place
227 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Santaquin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,119 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 4 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 | 89 |
| Natural | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | I-15, MM251 |
| 8 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYDRO |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,832 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WILLIAM |
| 6 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | P MOUNTAIN |
| 6 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BANDIT |
| 5 September 2019 | Natural | 4.1 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WARM SPRINGS |
| 4 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SANTIQUIN |
| 4 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MP 241 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 74 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Santaquin: 39 past producers, 17 occurrences, 13 producers, 4 unknowns. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Copper, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Balsam | Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1903 | |
| Black Balsam Prospect | Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Malachite | |
| Brownstone Adit | Copper, Iron | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Chaffin Quarry | Dolomite, Limestone, General | Past Producer | Surface | |
| El Dorado Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Elsie Jane Drift | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Golden Leaf | Gold | Producer | ||
| Golden Relief Claims | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Goshen Hill Limestone Quarries | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Jewel No 9 | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
7 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santaquin in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Santaquin | $3,000,000 | Heavy rains over several days caused flash flooding and mudslides below a burn area in Santaquin. The rain also caused a canal to overflow its banks in the same area, making conditions even worse. An estimated 3 million dollars damage was done to to about 40 homes and several vehicles as mudslides up to 7 feet deep moved down the hillside. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santaquin | $2,000 | TSTM wind gusts damaged a shed, dog house, satellite dish, and knocked down powerlines |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santaquin | $750 | A tree was downed in Santaquin. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santaquin | - | The Santaquin mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santaquin | - | The West Mountain South mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santaquin | - | Mesonet station FG024 at West Mountain South recorded a wind gust of 58 mph. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Santaquin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keigley | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Townsend | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Spring Lake | 2.7 miles | 21 | |
| Genola | 3.4 miles | 19 | |
| Payson | 5.5 miles | 21 | |
| West Mountain | 5.9 miles | 20 | |
| Elk Ridge | 6.3 miles | 21 | |
| Goshen | 6.3 miles | 18 |
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 Santaquin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q374692 | 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 1445329. 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.








