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Wendover, Utah

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Dugway-Wendover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84083. It lies near Needle Point. The Survey maps it on the Wendover quadrangle. 1,115 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,291 feet above sea level.

Wendover within Tooele County

On record in Wendover

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 109 shown

Every surveyed structure in Tooele County

Population over time

2 figures

Wendover fell from 1,400 to 1,115 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
20101,400
20201,115-285 (-20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

8 of 36 photographs shown, 1940

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.

Wendover, Utah
Wendover, Utah
Rothstein, Arthur, 1940. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, War Reserve Strategic Storage, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, War Reserve Strategic Storage, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, Squadron Hangar, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, Squadron Hangar, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, Airmen's Dormitory, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, Airmen's Dormitory, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, Post Ordnance Pyrotechnics Magazine, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, Post Ordnance Pyrotechnics Magazine, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, Dispensary, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, Dispensary, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Wendover Air Force Base, Maintenance Hangar, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Wendover Air Force Base, Maintenance Hangar, South of Interstate 80, Wendover, Tooele County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Tooele County

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Wendover between 1999 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
17 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreElko District OfficeOLA
14 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILDCAT ASSIST
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresElko District OfficeLEPPY
7 July 2007Fireworks40 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeMONTEGO
28 July 2005Natural1.0 acresElko District OfficeLEPPY PEAK
23 June 1999Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeI80MM408

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Wendover: 7 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 plant. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Leppy Peak Sand DunesSilicaOccurrenceQuartz
Reilly-Wendover PlantPotassium, Magnesite, SaltPlant1914, 1917
Utah Salt Co.SaltProducer
Wendover Quad. Sand DunesGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceSedimentary
Bonneville Ltd. Potash PlantBromineProducer1914, 1939
WendoverStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Wendover Quad. Subsurface BrinesBromineProducer1914, 1917
Wendover QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Best Western Motel CutsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendover in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2013: 8 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWendover$4,000no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWendover$500no account filed
July 2013Thunderstorm WindWendover-The Wendover Peak sensor recorded a wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindWendover-A thunderstorm produced a dry Microburst wind gust of 59 mph (51 kts) at the Wendover Airport.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindWendover-A dry thunderstorm produced a wind gust to 61 mph (53 kts) at the airport in Wendover.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWendover-The Port of Entry office at Wendover estimated thunderstorm winds gusting to 60 mph.
July 1996HailWendover-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWendover-no account filed
May 1993Thunderstorm WindWendover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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
Blair3.2 miles8
Silsbee5.8 miles8
Salduro9.6 miles8
Barro29.1 miles8
Knolls39.6 miles8
Gold Hill40.9 miles15
Clifton45.2 miles15
Ibapah48.4 miles16

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 WendoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q255781The 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 1434042. 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.