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Scipio, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Fillmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84656. It stands on Round Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scipio South quadrangle. 353 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,315 feet above sea level.

Scipio within Millard County

On record in Scipio

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Scipio grew from 327 to 353 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
2010327
2020353+26 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Scipio between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,815 acres in total. 90 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
Natural90
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeDEVILS CANYON
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFishlake National Forestnot named
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIG HOLLOW
5 September 2018Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeJIM WILLS
5 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFishlake National Forestnot named
28 September 2008Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeLOW HILLS
28 September 2004Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeLITTLEIND3
28 September 2004Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeLITTLEIND1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Scipio: 14 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 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
Scipio North Gravel Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Scipio Pass Gravel Pit #5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Scipio Pass Gravel Pit No. 4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Scipio Pass Gravel Pit No.4Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scipio Pass Gravel Pit No.5Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Scipio South Gravel Pit #3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Scipio South Gravel Pit No.3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14005Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Millard County

Storms near this place

6 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scipio in 6 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024FloodScipio$5,000State Route 50 was closed from Scipio to Salina from milepost 131 to milepost 154 due to flooding.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindScipio-The Scipio Summit mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 61 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindScipio-The Scipio Summit mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 61 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindScipio-The I-15 @ Scipio Summit mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 70 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindScipio-The UTSCI mesonet station recorded a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindScipio-The I-15 @ Scipio Summit sensor recorded a peak gust of 58 mph.

Every storm recorded in Millard 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
Holden13.4 miles16
Oak City15.2 miles17
Greenwood15.7 miles16
Maple Grove15.9 miles14
McCornick16.2 miles15
Harding19.3 miles16
Leamington22.1 miles15
Fillmore22.3 miles17

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 ScipioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482464The 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 1445376. 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.