Torrey, Utah
22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Loa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84775. It lies near Poverty Flat. The Survey maps it on the Torrey quadrangle. 231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,837 feet above sea level.
On record in Torrey
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 10 records
Elijah Cutler Behunin Cabinlisted 1999
Cathedral Valley Corrallisted 1999
Civilian Conservation Corps Powder Magazinelisted 1999
Fruita Rural Historic Districtlisted 1997
Hanks' Dugoutslisted 1999
Charles W. and Leah Lee Houselisted 1996
Lesley Morrell Line Cabin and Corrallisted 1999
Oyler Minelisted 1999
Pioneer Registerlisted 1999- Torrey Log Church-Schoolhouselisted 1993
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Capitol Reef National Park Roads & Bridges, Along State Route 24 between Torrey & Cainesville, Torreyfederal building survey, 10 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresTorrey grew from 182 to 231 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 | 182 | |
| 2020 | 231 | +49 (+27%) |
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 Fish Lake quadrangle1:250000
- 1896 USGS Fish Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1952 USGS Notom 2 SW quadrangle1:24000
- 1952 USGS Torrey quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Loa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Torrey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Torrey quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
2 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
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
31 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Torrey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 42 acres in total. 24 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | BIRCH SPRINGS |
| 3 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Fishlake National Forest | TORREY |
| 26 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Richfield Field Office | COZY COVE |
| 11 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | ROCKY RIDGE |
| 1 September 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | BULLBERRY |
| 9 August 1992 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Dixie National Forest | not named |
| 26 August 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | CEDAR |
| 23 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Dixie National Forest | CABIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Torrey: 9 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birch Spring Prospect | Uranium, Copper, Vanadium | Occurrence | Brochantite, Chalcanthite | |
| Picture Stone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Sandstone | |
| Picture Stone Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Sulphur Creek Prospect | Barium-Barite | Past Producer | ||
| Catherine Black Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Torrey Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Torrey Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Blacks Claim | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Blacks Claims | Uranium | Past Producer | Surface/Underground | |
| Blacks Claims | Uranium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
14 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Torrey in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 14 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1997 | Flash Flood | Torrey | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2025 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | A flood wave (flash flooding) was reported in Sulphur Creek at the Capitol Reef National Park western Boundary. Approximately 0.25 to 0.50 inches of rain fell to create the flood wave. |
| August 2024 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | A park ranger reported flash flooding along Sulphur Creek just outside of Capitol Reef National Park. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Capitol Reef National Park officials reported flash flooding in a dry wash leading into Sulphur Creek from upstream heavy rainfall. The water level on Sulphur Creek near the Visitor center rose 2 feet. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Capitol Reef National Park officials reported flash flooding on Sulphur Creek and the Fremont River, along with muddy conditions on Scenic Drive. The initial flood wave through Sulphur Creek contained black boulders. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Park rangers reported flash flooding along Sulphur Creek in Capitol Reef National Park. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Park rangers at Capitol Reef National Park reported flash flooding on Sulphur Creek, with the flood reaching the Visitor Center at 225 pm MDT. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Sulphur Creek in Capitol Reef National Park experienced flash flooding following heavy rainfall. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Flash flooding was reported by the park rangers at Capitol Reef National Park. This flooding primarily occurred along the Scenic Drive, closing the Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge areas. |
| September 2012 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Flash flooding was reported in multiple locations across Capitol Reef National Park. Flooding occurred along Sulphur Creek, and water also flowed across the Scenic Drive, causing park officials to temporarily close the road. |
| July 2012 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Flash flooding occurred along Sulphur Creek in Capitol Reef National Park, impacting a section of State Route 24. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Flash flooding occurred in Capitol Reef National Park. Grand Wash was flooded and the Scenic Drive was closed due to flooding. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Flash Flood across parts of Capitol Reef NP. Roads closed including the Grand Wash and Scenic Highway |
| August 2003 | Flash Flood | Torrey | - | Flash flood water over Highway 12 west of Torrey closed the road for a time. |
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.
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 Torrey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q483141 | 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 1446658. 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.









