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Scofield, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Helper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84526. It lies near U P Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Scofield quadrangle. 26 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7,740 feet above sea level.

Scofield within Carbon County

On record in Scofield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Scofield grew from 24 to 26 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
201024
202026+2 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

What the histories say of this town

60,210 words

1 chapter about Scofield from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

ChapterFrom Length
HistoryHistory of the Scofield Mine Disaster : A Concise Account of the Incidents and Scenes That Took Place at Scofield, Utah, May 1, 1900. When Mine Number Four Exploded, Killing 200 Men. Profusely Illustrated by 70 Choice Engravings (1900)60,210 words in 4 parts

Photographs

1 photograph,

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.

Winter Quarters Mine, Scofield, Carbon County, UT
Winter Quarters Mine, Scofield, Carbon County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Scofield between 1993 and 2020, burning about 294 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
6 September 2002Natural1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUMP CREEK
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestMINE TIMBER
5 August 1995Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestWOODS CANYON
30 August 2009Debris and open burning251 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWES SCOFIELD STATE
3 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROADS CANYON
29 August 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsKIRSTEN
27 August 1999Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGREEN
26 August 2014Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestTROUGH SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Scofield: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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
Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Deposit #04001Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Deposit 04002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerLimestone, Quartzite, Sandstone
Gravel Deposit 04002Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerLimestone, Quartzite, Sandstone
Utah Dept. of Highways No. 04001Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Carbon 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
Winter Quarters (historical)1.4 miles20
Clear Creek5.4 miles20
Consumers5.4 miles20
Coal City8.6 miles20
Latuda11.5 miles18
Standardville12.2 miles18
Storrs12.9 miles18
Peerless13.4 miles18

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 ScofieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482489The 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 1445380. 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.