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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.

Toquerville within Washington County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Toquerville 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,370
20201,870+500 (+36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

187 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Equipment and vehicle use25
Debris and open burning13
Fireworks7
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Firearms and explosives use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLEEDS ASST #2
7 September 2009Naturalunder an acreArizona Strip Field OfficeTOQUERVILLE ASSIST 2
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTANWORTH
5 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTV TOWER TOQUERVILLE
3 September 2012Natural5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHURRICANE ASSIST 05
3 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLEWIS
3 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTOQUERSVILLE SOUTH
28 September 2005Natural681 acresCedar City Field OfficeFALLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 86 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chloride ChiefSilver, Uranium, Copper, VanadiumPast ProducerCarnotite, Cerargyrite, Malachite, Vanadinite
Hot Rock #1Uranium, Vanadium, SilverPast ProducerUnderground
Hot Rock No.1Vanadium, Silver, UraniumPast Producer
La Verkin Dixie Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
NevadaCopper, Uranium, SilverPast Producer
Sandstone QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandstone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerSedimentary
Sandstone QuarrySilicaPast Producer
Vanderbilt No.5 MinesSilver, Copper, UraniumPast Producer
Virgin ManganeseManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

12 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2024Thunderstorm WindToquerville$50,000Reports of property damage, large objects moved, and a solar panel relocated came from Toquerville. Time is estimated.
October 2004Flash FloodToquerville$15,000no account filed
September 2002Flash FloodToquerville$10,000Heavy rains, 1.00 inch in 7 minutes, in Toquerville produced flash flooding of a farmer's field and flooding of his barn.
October 2004Flash FloodToquerville$10,000no account filed
October 2024Thunderstorm WindToquerville-A wind gust of 58 mph was recorded at the Ash Creek mesonet site.
March 2023FloodToquerville-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 2021Flash FloodToquerville-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 2018Flash FloodToquerville-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 2014Flash FloodToquerville-Flash flooding occurred on both La Verkin Creek and Dry Creek, with the gauge along La Verkin Creek increasing to 800 cfs.
August 2012Flash FloodToquerville-Multiple drainages southeast of the Pine Valley Mountains experienced flash flooding.
July 2012HailToquerville-A thunderstorm dropped enough hail on Hurricane, Utah to cover the ground, with an estimated maximum hail size of 1 inch in diameter.
August 1999Heavy RainToquerville-Heavy rain in Toquerville, with 2 inches falling in just one hour.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Anderson Junction2.4 miles18
LaVerkin3.7 miles17
Leeds4.1 miles17
Silver Reef4.4 miles18
Hurricane5.4 miles17
Virgin6.0 miles15
Pintura6.1 miles18
Harrisburg6.7 miles17

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 ToquervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q483289The 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.