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Wellington, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Price census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84542. The Survey maps it on the Wellington quadrangle. 1,605 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,413 feet above sea level.

Wellington within Carbon County

Population over time

2 figures

Wellington fell from 1,676 to 1,605 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
20101,676
20201,605-71 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Wellington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 93 acres in total. 4 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
Debris and open burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROADSIDE
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTAKE FARM
24 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMILLER CREEK
14 September 2006Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBROTHERSON
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSoutheast AreaPRICE CANAL
7 August 2017Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHWY 6 MM 245
9 July 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSAWDUST
7 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMoab Field OfficeAIRPORT ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Wellington: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 4 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
Industrial Center Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerChert, Limestone, Sandstone
Miller Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Miller Creek Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Limestone, Sandstone
Unknown Gravel DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #04024Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #04025Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerGravel, Limestone, Sandstone
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04020Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSandstone
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 04024Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellington in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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
September 1996Flash FloodWellington$100,000no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindWellington$10,000no account filed
July 2006Heavy RainWellington-0.77 inch rain in one hour.
August 2006HailWellington-Golfball size hail

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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
Price5.6 miles19
Wood Hill6.2 miles19
Carbonville7.5 miles19
Sunnyside Junction8.7 miles18
Spring Glen10.2 miles20
Kenilworth10.7 miles20
Helper11.6 miles20
Wildcat12.3 miles18

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 WellingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482904The 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 1434038. 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.