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Thatcher, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Tremonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84337. The Survey maps it on the Thatcher Mountain quadrangle. 807 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,003 feet above sea level.

Thatcher within Box Elder County

Population over time

2 figures

Thatcher grew from 789 to 807 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
2010789
2020807+18 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Thatcher between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,514 acres in total. 14 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/undetermined40
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Debris and open burning7
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHERRIE MCNEELY
5 September 2001Natural40 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOULDING
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBOX ELDER
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOKADA'S PENROSE
17 September 2000Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPENROSE MOUNTAIN
15 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJACKSON FIRE
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOWEN STOKES
8 August 2003Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPUBLIC SOUTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Thatcher: 18 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Christensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Christensen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Compton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
D Homer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
D. Homer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Holdaway #02170 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Holdaway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Holdaway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jensen #02054 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thatcher in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 1998: 2 hail. 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 1998HailThatcher-no account filed
September 1997HailThatcher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Box Elder 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
Bothwell2.5 miles11
Penrose3.0 miles11
Tremonton6.9 miles9
Cropley7.0 miles9
Garland7.7 miles9
Evans7.9 miles11
Lampo Junction7.9 miles11
Elwood8.1 miles9

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 ThatcherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q542104The 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 1437700. 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.