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Wellsville, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Wellsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84339. It lies near Wide Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Wellsville quadrangle. 4,060 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,547 feet above sea level.

Wellsville within Cache County

On record in Wellsville

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 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wellsville grew from 3,432 to 4,060 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
20103,432
20204,060+628 (+18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

A thresher cuts and gathers hay in a valley near Wellsville, Utah
A thresher cuts and gathers hay in a valley near Wellsville, Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A thresher cuts and gathers hay in a valley near Wellsville, Utah
A thresher cuts and gathers hay in a valley near Wellsville, Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress
A thresher cuts and gathers hay in a valley near Wellsville, Utah
A thresher cuts and gathers hay in a valley near Wellsville, Utah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Wellsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined20
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined37 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeASPEN
13 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTROY PARKER
9 August 2020Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBRUSHY
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGOSHEN
21 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHYRUM DAM
21 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSAVAGE
2 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDRY LAKE
19 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBRUSHY CANYON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cache County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Wellsville: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Garetts Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Garrett's Hollow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Highway Dept No 3025Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Highway Dept No 3031Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ut Dept of Highways Pit No 17028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Highways Pit No. 03031Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 17028Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. of Highways Pit No. 03025Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Cache County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wellsville in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 1998FloodWellsville$30,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Murray's Hill mesonet station recorded an initial strong wind gust of 59 mph at 4:50 pm MST, followed by a subsequent peak wind gust of 66 mph at 5:10 pm MST, and a final strong wind gust of 62 mph at 5:30 pm MST. More modest wind gusts in the 53 mph to 55 mph were recorded in between these observations. These wind gusts were the result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Murray's Hill mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Murray's Hill mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 61 at 3:10 am MST, followed by a peak gust of 63 mph at 3:20 am MST. These gusts were the result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Murray's Hill mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 70 mph as a result of a convective section of a cold frontal boundary advancing through the area.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Sherwood Hills mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWellsville-A wind gust of 61 mph was recorded at the Murray's Hill mesonet site.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Murray's Hill mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 73 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindWellsville-The Murray's Hill weather station recorded a wind gust of 58 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWellsville-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded by the Sherwood Hills sensor.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWellsville-A 60 mph wind gust was recorded at the Wellsville sensor.
August 1998Funnel CloudWellsville-no account filed
April 1993Thunderstorm WindWellsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cache 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
Greens Corner1.3 miles17
Mount Sterling2.0 miles19
College Ward3.9 miles17
Hyrum4.3 miles17
Holt5.2 miles17
Mendon5.4 miles17
Nibley5.9 miles17
Millville6.6 miles17

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 WellsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482873The 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 1447103. 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.