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Summit, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Parowan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84761. It stands on Summit Creek. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,955 feet above sea level.

Summit within Iron County

Population over time

2 figures

Summit grew from 160 to 170 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
2010160
2020170+10 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. 31 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Natural31
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsENOCH VIEW
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouthwest AreaSUMMIT WEST
7 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSUMMIT
30 September 2011Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeRED CANYON
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCINDER HILL
29 September 2011Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLOVELL
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeEGG
28 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTRANTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 22 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Volcanic Materials, Pumice. 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
Cinder Hill Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsPast Producer
Cinder Hill Cinder PitPumicePast Producer
Unnamed ProspectManganeseProspect1942
Red Hills ProspectsIronOccurrence
Red Hills ProspectsIronOccurrence
Braffits Creek Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone
Braffits Creek Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cinder Hill Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Cinder Hill Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clarks Canyon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerChert, Quartzite, Rhyolite

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 1 debris flow, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2022Debris FlowSummit$3,500Thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall north of Brian Head, with 3-hour Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor rainfall estimates of around 1 to 2.5 inches. This resulted in debris flows over state Route 143 between mileposts 11 and 13, and closure of the road. Additional reports from the public and media reported debris was up to 7 feet deep in spots.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSummit-The Black Rock mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.

Every storm recorded in Iron 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
Enoch5.0 miles17
Fort Johnson5.3 miles17
Parowan6.4 miles16
Brian Head8.7 miles18
Paragonah10.3 miles14
Cedar City10.8 miles19
North View11.3 miles18
Cedar Highlands12.7 miles19

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 SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3473382The 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 1433054. 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.