Thompson Springs, Utah
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Thompson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84540. It lies near Thompson Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Thompson Springs quadrangle. 34 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,082 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresThompson Springs fell from 39 to 34 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 | 39 | |
| 2020 | 34 | -5 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 22 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 La Sal quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Thompson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Moab quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1991 USGS Thompson Springs quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
4 photographs, 2022Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
56 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Thompson Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,834 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Moab Field Office | SEGO CANYON |
| 15 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Moab Field Office | MILEMARKER 187 |
| 12 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | 192 FIRE |
| 11 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.1 acres | Moab Field Office | I70 MM192 |
| 4 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Moab Field Office | H20 BOTTLE |
| 2 August 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Moab Field Office | I70 MM 186 |
| 16 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Moab Field Office | TRACK |
| 10 August 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Moab Field Office | THOMPSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Thompson Springs: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit #10009 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Utah Dept of Highways Pit #10010 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 10010 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. No. 10009 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vista | 2.0 miles | 22 | |
| Sego | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Brendel (historical) | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Crescent Junction | 5.8 miles | 23 | |
| Sagers | 6.1 miles | 22 | |
| Elba | 11.1 miles | 22 | |
| Floy | 12.2 miles | 23 | |
| Solitude | 16.2 miles | 24 |
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 Thompson Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6146129 | 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 1433468. 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.









