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Sigurd, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Richfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84657. It stands on Brine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sigurd quadrangle. 405 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,226 feet above sea level.

Sigurd within Sevier County

Population over time

2 figures

Sigurd fell from 429 to 405 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
2010429
2020405-24 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Sigurd between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,028 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 2 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
Natural58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeKING MEADOW
3 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeCEDAR WASH
26 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral AreaTRASH
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeI70 52
26 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeROAD JUMP
22 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresRichfield Field OfficeBLACK MTN2
19 September 2004Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeLANDFILL
13 September 2009Naturalunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeROCKY FORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sevier County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Sigurd: 11 producers, 9 past producers, 5 occurrences, 4 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. 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
Wooley #9 ClaimUraniumOccurrence
Bestwall PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Sigurd Gypsum MillGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Sigurd QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Sigurd QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Us Gypsum Co. QuarryGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer1948
Us Gypsum PlantGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Black Knoll Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Black Knoll Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rainbow Hills Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand

Every working recorded in Sevier 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
Vermillion1.4 miles17
Venice3.5 miles15
Kema3.9 miles15
Prattsville5.2 miles15
Gramse5.3 miles15
Glenwood5.5 miles17
Aurora5.9 miles18
Richfield7.8 miles15

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 SigurdAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483665The 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 1445583. 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.