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Taylorsville, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84123. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City South quadrangle. 60,448 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,295 feet above sea level.

Taylorsville within Salt Lake County

On record in Taylorsville

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

Population over time

2 figures

Taylorsville grew from 58,652 to 60,448 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
201058,652
202060,448+1,796 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Taylorsville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism1
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
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAILER
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5525 S COUGAR LN
21 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands963 W MOGUL PEAK RD
19 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands4430 S ATHERTON DR
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5167 W 6275 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Taylorsville: 24 producers, 21 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
New EnglandSilver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Onyx RanchGemstoneProducerOnyx
Spring and SummitGold, SilverPast Producer
UnknownMercury, LeadOccurrenceCinnabar, Mercury
Utah Delaware Mining Co.Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

9 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylorsville in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2021Thunderstorm WindTaylorsville$1,500A tree was blown down in Taylorsville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindTaylorsville$1,000Multiple power lines were downed in Taylorsville.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindTaylorsville-The I-215 at MP 16 Taylorsville mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 66 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
June 2023Funnel CloudTaylorsville-Photos from social media showed a funnel cloud looking east from Taylorsville.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindTaylorsville-Multiple reports of wind damage associated with a thunderstorm were reported in Taylorsville. A vinyl fence was damaged, a large tree was uprooted, and large limbs were downed.
August 2018HailTaylorsville-Penny-sized hail was reported in Taylorsville.
July 2008Flash FloodTaylorsville-A CoCoRaHS observer reported a rainfall total of 1.26 inches near Kearns. Local media reported flooding in the Kearns and Taylorsville area, and standing water accumulated 1 to 3 feet in low lying areas.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindTaylorsville-35ft evergreen tree uprooted at Bennion Jr. High School
August 2006HailTaylorsville-Numerous hail reports betweeen 0.5 and 0.88" in teh Salt Lake Valley betwen 1350 and 1420 MST.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Bennion (historical)2.0 miles25
Granger2.5 miles25
Murray2.7 miles25
Dalton3.0 miles25
Kearns3.1 miles25
Redwood (historical)3.1 miles25
Atwood3.2 miles25
Roper3.6 miles25

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 TaylorsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q52475The 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 1433206. 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.