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Wanship, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Coalville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84017. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wanship quadrangle. 423 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,925 feet above sea level.

Wanship within Summit County

Population over time

2 figures

Wanship grew from 400 to 423 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
2010400
2020423+23 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Wanship between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,130 acres in total. 28 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
Debris and open burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Equipment and vehicle use34
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony9
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1
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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOWERLINE
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBUZZARD
7 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSEMI SIDE
6 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDOG HOLLOW
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVERSIDE COTTONWOOD
23 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROCKPORT PARK
22 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROCKPORT RANCH
19 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWANSHIP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Wanship: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Uranium. 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
Big KUraniumOccurrence
Utelite Clay Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerSedimentary
Utelite Clay Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wanship Dam Clay LocalityClayOccurrence
Wanship Dam Clay LocalityClayPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 22039Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 23018Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut State Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 22013Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut State Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 22016Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut. Dep. of Hwys. No 22039Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Summit County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wanship in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWanship1 killedA 21-year-old male was riding a paddle board on the reservoir at Rockport State Park when a strong wind gust caused by a thunderstorm moved through the area. The victim was separated from his group of friends and drowned in the reservoir. His body was recovered the next day. The strongest wind gusts recorded from nearby sensors included 52 mph at the Interstate 80 at Silver Creek Junction sensor and 45 mph at the Interstate 80 at Wanship sensor.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Hoytsville4.5 miles24
Atkinson6.1 miles26
Peoa6.9 miles23
Coalville7.3 miles22
Silver Creek Junction7.3 miles26
East Basin7.5 miles26
Oakley8.8 miles23
Jeremy Ranch9.0 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 WanshipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166372The 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 1433942. 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.