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Wales, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Mount Pleasant-Moroni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84667. It lies in Wales Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Wales quadrangle. 338 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,627 feet above sea level.

Wales within Sanpete County

On record in Wales

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wales grew from 302 to 338 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
2010302
2020338+36 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Wales between 1994 and 2020, burning about 99 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 6 were 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
Natural16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWALES RESERVOIR
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALVAGE YARD
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLAMB
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIG MOUNTAIN
12 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPETES CANYON
29 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBIG MOUNTAIN
24 August 2013Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSOUTH LEDGE
22 August 2018Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestCONGLOMORATE ROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sanpete County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Wales: 17 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Stone, Dimension. 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
Moroni North Sandstone ProspectsStone, DimensionPast ProducerQuartz
Wales Tufa DepositCalciumOccurrence
Spring Ditch Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20026Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20029Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20030Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sandstone
Utah Dept. Highways, Pit #20027Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Sand
Utah Dept.Highways Pit No. 20016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sanpete 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
Moroni3.5 miles18
Chester3.9 miles16
Freedom3.9 miles19
Jerusalem5.4 miles19
Pigeon Hollow Junction6.0 miles16
Spring City7.4 miles16
West Ephraim8.1 miles16
Ephraim9.2 miles16

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 WalesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482546The 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 1446954. 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.