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.
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
John T. Lewellyn Houselisted 1980
Wales Co-operative Mercantile Institutionlisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresWales 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 302 | |
| 2020 | 338 | +36 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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 Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Manti quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Wales quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
54 since 1994Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WALES RESERVOIR |
| 20 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SALVAGE YARD |
| 17 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LAMB |
| 15 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BIG MOUNTAIN |
| 12 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PETES CANYON |
| 29 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | BIG MOUNTAIN |
| 24 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SOUTH LEDGE |
| 22 August 2018 | Natural | under an acre | Manti-Lasal National Forest | CONGLOMORATE ROCK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 20 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moroni North Sandstone Prospects | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | Quartz | |
| Wales Tufa Deposit | Calcium | Occurrence | ||
| Spring Ditch Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Dept Highways Pit #20023 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel | |
| Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20026 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel | |
| Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20028 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sandstone | |
| Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20029 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sandstone | |
| Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20030 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sandstone | |
| Utah Dept. Highways, Pit #20027 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Gravel, Sand | |
| Utah Dept.Highways Pit No. 20016 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moroni | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Chester | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Freedom | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Jerusalem | 5.4 miles | 19 | |
| Pigeon Hollow Junction | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Spring City | 7.4 miles | 16 | |
| West Ephraim | 8.1 miles | 16 | |
| Ephraim | 9.2 miles | 16 |
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 Wales | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q482546 | 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 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.







