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.
Population over time
2 figuresSpring 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 458 | |
| 2020 | 528 | +70 (+15%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1948 USGS Spanish Fork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Provo quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Spanish Fork quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Provo quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Spanish Fork quadrangle1:24000
- 1998 USGS Spanish Fork quadrangle1:24000
What the histories say of this town
678 words1 chapter about Spring Lake from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.
| Chapter | From | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Utah County: a Graphic Account of Its Foundings, Its Wonderful Growth | Utah 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 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 114 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 15 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | I-15, MM251 |
| 8 September 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HYDRO |
| 6 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,832 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WILLIAM |
| 6 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | P MOUNTAIN |
| 6 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BANDIT |
| 4 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 9J HAYSTACK |
| 4 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | SANTIQUIN |
| 30 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SANTAQUIN CYN1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 75 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Balsam | Fluorine-Fluorite | Prospect | 1903 | |
| Black Balsam Prospect | Lead, Copper, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Malachite | |
| Brownstone Adit | Copper, Iron | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| El Dorado Mine | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Elsie Jane Drift | Lead, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Golden Leaf | Gold | Producer | ||
| Golden Relief Claims | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Goshen Hill Limestone Quarries | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Keigley Ne Prospects | Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Surface/Underground | |
| Keigley Quarry | Limestone, General, Dolomite | Producer | 1943 |
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Lightning | Spring Lake | 1 hurt, $5,000 | Four 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 2023 | Flood | Spring Lake | $50,000 | Utah 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. |
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.
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 Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3314515 | The 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.









