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Spring Lake, Utah

21 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 84651. It lies near Crooked Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Spanish Fork quadrangle. 528 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,731 feet above sea level.

Spring Lake within Utah County

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Lake grew from 458 to 528 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
2010458
2020528+70 (+15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

678 words

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

ChapterFrom Length
Utah County: a Graphic Account of Its Foundings, Its Wonderful GrowthUtah 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)678 words

Fires near this place

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Spring Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,983 acres in total. 29 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/undetermined114
Debris and open burning34
Natural29
Recreation and ceremony20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Firearms and explosives use15
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2

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 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsI-15, MM251
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYDRO
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5,832 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILLIAM
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeP MOUNTAIN
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBANDIT
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands9J HAYSTACK
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSANTIQUIN
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSANTAQUIN CYN1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Spring Lake: 35 past producers, 21 occurrences, 15 producers, 3 unknowns. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Clay, Iron. 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
Black BalsamFluorine-FluoriteProspect1903
Black Balsam ProspectLead, Copper, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Malachite
Brownstone AditCopper, IronOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pyrite
El Dorado MineSilver, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerUnderground
Elsie Jane DriftLead, Zinc, SilverPast ProducerGalena
Golden LeafGoldProducer
Golden Relief ClaimsCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceGold
Goshen Hill Limestone QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerUnderground
Keigley Ne ProspectsIron, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSurface/Underground
Keigley QuarryLimestone, General, DolomiteProducer1943

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Lake in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2009LightningSpring Lake1 hurt, $5,000Four people were riding in a late model GMC Yukon SUV south on I-15, when the vehicle was struck by lightning about halfway between Santaquin and Payson. The vehicle immediately stalled. The front passenger was touching the radio/CD player at the moment lightning struck; she became unconscious and stopped breathing. Her husband administered CPR and she was resuscitated, and has since made a full recovery. The vehicle was damaged, with the electrical system and other components having to be replaced.
May 2023FloodSpring Lake$50,000Utah County Sherriff's Department initially reported a partial washout of the Nebo Loop Scenic Byway in Payson Canyon near the Shram Creek Trailhead on 5/22/23 associated with ongoing spring snowmelt runoff (likely further exacerbated by nearly daily scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms). By 5/25/23, pictures and follow-up reports showed that the road had fully washed out due to the continued runoff.

Every storm recorded in Utah 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
Santaquin2.7 miles19
Payson3.1 miles21
Keigley3.4 miles20
Elk Ridge3.7 miles21
Townsend4.4 miles19
West Mountain4.7 miles20
Genola5.1 miles19
Salem5.3 miles21

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3314515The 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 1446051. 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.