Tabiona, Utah
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Duchesne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84072. It lies near Little Valley. The Survey maps it on the Tabiona quadrangle. 143 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,516 feet above sea level.
On record in Tabiona
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 1 record
Stockmore Ranger Stationlisted 1999
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Irrigation Canals in the Uinta Basin, Jepp Thomas Canal, Duchesnefederal building survey, 2 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresTabiona fell from 171 to 143 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 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 143 | -28 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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 Uinta quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Tabiona quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Duchesne quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
80 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Tabiona between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 52 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 52 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | PICKUP |
| 8 September 2005 | Natural | 5.5 acres | Uintah and Ouray Agency | TABIONA |
| 4 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ROBERTS ROOST |
| 4 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ELK MEADOWS |
| 4 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Uintah and Ouray Agency | EASTTABBY |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | MURRAY'S EXCITED |
| 28 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PENROD |
| 27 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WET FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tabiona: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Oil Sands. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tabiona Tar Sand Deposit | Oil Sands | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tabiona in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Tabiona | 1 killed, 2 hurt, $200,000 | In an area already experiencing river flooding, heavy rainfall caused flash flooding near Tabiona. The primary road damage was along State Route 35, where a gulch running under the road was heavily backed up for hundreds of yards, and the pressure from the backup eventually washed out the road. The resultant damage was an area 30 feet deep and 40 feet across where the road was entirely missing.||Around 11:45 pm MDT, two vehicles drove directly into the washed out area. The occupants of the first vehicle suffered one fatality and one injury. The occupant of the other vehicle was injured. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabiona | $10,000 | Strong Microburst winds picked the roof off a shed and blew down a large cottonwood tree. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tabiona | $5,000 | The US-40 at Starvation sensor recorded a wind gust of 59 mph. In addition, trees were knocked down in Tabiona near State Route 35. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Tabiona | - | A public video showed multiple half-dollar-sized hailstones near Tabiona. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Tabiona | - | Public photos indicated approximately nickel-sized hail near Tabiona. |
| July 2011 | Hail | Tabiona | - | Hail with a diameter of 1 inch was reported in Tabiona. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanna | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Fruitland | 11.9 miles | 16 | |
| Talmage | 15.0 miles | 18 | |
| Utahn | 15.8 miles | 18 | |
| Mountain Home | 17.3 miles | 18 | |
| Moon Lake Lodge | 18.3 miles | 24 | |
| Moon Lake Resort | 18.4 miles | 22 | |
| Boneta | 19.5 miles | 17 |
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 Tabiona | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482429 | 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 1433156. 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.





