Toquerville, Utah
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Hurricane census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84774. It stands on Wet Sandy. The Survey maps it on the Pintura quadrangle. 1,870 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,389 feet above sea level.
On record in Toquerville
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 4 records
Thomas Forsyth Houselisted 1982
Naegle Winerylisted 1980
John Steele Houselisted 1988
Toquerville Halllisted 2020
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- David Spilsbury House, Spring Street (State Route 15), Toquervillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Naegle Winery, Spring Street (State Route 15), Toquervillefederal building survey, 4 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresToquerville grew from 1,370 to 1,870 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 | 1,370 | |
| 2020 | 1,870 | +500 (+36%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
- 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS La Verkin 2 SE quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS St. George quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Pintura quadrangle1:24000
- 2002 USGS Pintura quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
187 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Toquerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,851 acres in total. 68 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 68 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 63 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LEEDS ASST #2 |
| 7 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Arizona Strip Field Office | TOQUERVILLE ASSIST 2 |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | STANWORTH |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TV TOWER TOQUERVILLE |
| 3 September 2012 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | HURRICANE ASSIST 05 |
| 3 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LEWIS |
| 3 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | TOQUERSVILLE SOUTH |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | 681 acres | Cedar City Field Office | FALLS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 86 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Toquerville: 61 past producers, 10 producers, 6 prospects, 5 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Uranium, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chloride Chief | Silver, Uranium, Copper, Vanadium | Past Producer | Carnotite, Cerargyrite, Malachite, Vanadinite | |
| Hot Rock #1 | Uranium, Vanadium, Silver | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Hot Rock No.1 | Vanadium, Silver, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| La Verkin Dixie Hot Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Nevada | Copper, Uranium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sandstone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Sandstone Quarry | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Vanderbilt No.5 Mines | Silver, Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | ||
| Virgin Manganese | Manganese | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
12 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Toquerville in 12 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 7 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toquerville | $50,000 | Reports of property damage, large objects moved, and a solar panel relocated came from Toquerville. Time is estimated. |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | $15,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | $10,000 | Heavy rains, 1.00 inch in 7 minutes, in Toquerville produced flash flooding of a farmer's field and flooding of his barn. |
| October 2004 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | $10,000 | no account filed |
| October 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Toquerville | - | A wind gust of 58 mph was recorded at the Ash Creek mesonet site. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Toquerville | - | Law enforcement reported flooding in addition to video showing that Ash Creek was flowing outside of bankfull levels. An additional photo showed Ash Creek at the top of Blackridge at exit 36 was underwater. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | - | Washington County dispatch officials reported water over the road on State Route 17 near Toquerville, briefly closing the road. The bridge where water crossed the road is above full grown trees in the creek below, indicating a significant rise in water level. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | - | Heavy rain produced flash flooding that temporarily closed Interstate 15 near the town of Leeds. Flash flooding was also reported in Leeds and Washington City. |
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | - | Flash flooding occurred on both La Verkin Creek and Dry Creek, with the gauge along La Verkin Creek increasing to 800 cfs. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Toquerville | - | Multiple drainages southeast of the Pine Valley Mountains experienced flash flooding. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Toquerville | - | A thunderstorm dropped enough hail on Hurricane, Utah to cover the ground, with an estimated maximum hail size of 1 inch in diameter. |
| August 1999 | Heavy Rain | Toquerville | - | Heavy rain in Toquerville, with 2 inches falling in just one hour. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson Junction | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| LaVerkin | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| Leeds | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Silver Reef | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Hurricane | 5.4 miles | 17 | |
| Virgin | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Pintura | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Harrisburg | 6.7 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 Toquerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483289 | 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 1446655. 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.









