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Wallsburg, Utah

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Heber City South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84082. It stands on Little Hobble Creek. The Survey maps it on the Charleston quadrangle. 290 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,676 feet above sea level.

Wallsburg within Wasatch County

Population over time

2 figures

Wallsburg grew from 250 to 290 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
2010250
2020290+40 (+16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 2022

Taken 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.

Dark skies give an extra glow to the hills above Deer Creek Reservoir, near Wallsburg in Wasatch County, Utah
Dark skies give an extra glow to the hills above Deer Creek Reservoir, near Wallsburg in Wasatch County, Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Dark skies give an extra glow to the hills above Deer Creek Reservoir, near Wallsburg in Wasatch County, Utah
Dark skies give an extra glow to the hills above Deer Creek Reservoir, near Wallsburg in Wasatch County, Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
Dark skies give an extra glow to the hills above Deer Creek Reservoir, near Wallsburg in Wasatch County, Utah
Dark skies give an extra glow to the hills above Deer Creek Reservoir, near Wallsburg in Wasatch County, Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Wallsburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,835 acres in total. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Natural15
Debris and open burning12
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWALLBURG 1/2 MILE 189
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOAK HILL LANE
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands1500 ROUND VALLEY RD
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRAINBOW BAY 3
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAIN CANYON CAMPFIRE
19 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRAINBOW BAY-ENCORE
18 September 2008Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBUCK CREEK FIRE
18 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJEPPERSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wallsburg: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ut Dep of Hwys No 26028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26018Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26024Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut. Dept of Hwys. No. 26018, Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerQuartzite
Ut. Dept. of Hwys. Gravel Pit No. 26028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Hwys. Gravel Pit No. 26024Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Wasatch County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallsburg in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2023HailWallsburg-A public report of approximately 1 inch diameter hail at Strawberry Reservoir was received.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindWallsburg-The US-40 at MP 55 Dollar Ridge Tripod mesonet station reported a peak wind gust of 67 mph.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Wallsburg-A brief, weak tornado touchdown was reported and photographed by multiple individuals at Strawberry Reservoir. No damage was observed. Time, exact location, and path width are all estimated.
August 2018Flash FloodWallsburg-Heavy rain caused a large debris flow over the Dollar Ridge Fire burn scar. The nearby Strawberry River saw a peak flow of 2000 cfs.
August 2018Flash FloodWallsburg-Heavy rain caused debris flows on the Coal Hollow Fire and Tank Hollow Fire burn scars.

Every storm recorded in Wasatch 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
Daniel5.7 miles21
Charleston6.0 miles21
Center Creek7.1 miles22
Heber City8.2 miles26
Midway9.0 miles26
Mountain Spa9.8 miles26
Mound City10.2 miles26
Independence10.5 miles23

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 WallsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482471The 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 1446968. 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.