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Spring City, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84662. It stands on Canal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spring City quadrangle. 949 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,823 feet above sea level.

Spring City within Sanpete County

On record in Spring 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 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 15 shown

Every surveyed structure in Sanpete County

Population over time

2 figures

Spring City fell from 988 to 949 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
2010988
2020949-39 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Photographs

6 photographs,

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.

Spring City Area Study, Log Cabin, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Spring City Area Study, Log Cabin, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Spring City Area Study, Tithing Office, Second Street, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Spring City Area Study, Tithing Office, Second Street, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Spring City Area Study, Stone House, Main & F Streets, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Spring City Area Study, Stone House, Main & F Streets, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Spring City Area Study, Tithing Barn, Second Street, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Spring City Area Study, Tithing Barn, Second Street, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Spring City Area Study, Bishop's Storehouse, Fourth & E Streets, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Spring City Area Study, Bishop's Storehouse, Fourth & E Streets, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Spring City Area Study, Adobe House, First Street, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Spring City Area Study, Adobe House, First Street, Spring City, Sanpete County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

84 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Spring City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 6 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
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
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 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJUNCTION SPOT
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPIG FIRE
4 September 2006Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSP FIRE
4 September 2001Natural75 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCRUB
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSPRING CITY
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALVAGE YARD
2 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUSPICION FIRE
2 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Spring City: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
Pigeon Hollow Limestone ProspectStone, DimensionOccurrenceLimestone
Pigeon Hollow Limestone ProspectStonePast Producer
Chester - Highway 89 Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone
Chester Ponds Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chester-Highway 89 Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Spring Ditch Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20031Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No.20024Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring City in 3 storm reports in 1998: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Flash FloodSpring City$900,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodSpring City$200,000no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodSpring City$100,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sanpete 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
Chester3.6 miles16
Mount Pleasant4.9 miles16
Pigeon Hollow Junction5.4 miles16
Moroni5.8 miles18
Wales7.4 miles16
West Ephraim8.9 miles16
Freedom9.1 miles19
Ephraim9.7 miles16

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 Spring CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482972The 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 1445992. 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.