West Mountain, Utah
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Spanish Fork-Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84651. The Survey maps it on the West Mountain quadrangle. 1,250 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,547 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWest Mountain grew from 1,186 to 1,250 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,186 | |
| 2020 | 1,250 | +64 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Salt Lake quadrangle1:250000, 7 printings
- 1950 USGS West Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS West Mountain quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Salt Lake City quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Provo quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS West Mountain quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
248 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of West Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39,373 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 10 were 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/undetermined | 100 |
| Debris and open burning | 56 |
| Natural | 26 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | I-15, MM251 |
| 7 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | not named |
| 6 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Salt Lake Field Office | P MOUNTAIN |
| 6 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest | BANDIT |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | GOSHEN |
| 5 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SHEPHERD |
| 4 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WELDING |
| 4 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 38 acres | Salt Lake Field Office | BROAD HOLLOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 33 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of West Mountain: 19 past producers, 7 occurrences, 6 producers, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Limestone, General, Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keigley Ne Prospects | Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Surface/Underground | |
| Keigley Quarry | Limestone, General, Dolomite | Producer | 1943 | |
| Unknown Ls Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Genola No. 1 Prospect | Dolomite | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Genola No. 2 Prospect | Dolomite | Occurrence | Surface | |
| Goshen Hill Limestone Quarries | Limestone, General | Past Producer | Underground | |
| West Mountain N. Central Prospects | Limestone, General | Occurrence | Calcite | |
| Genola Shaft | Iron | Occurrence | Vein | |
| West Mountain Ne Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Surface | |
| West Mountain Nw Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | Vein |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payson | 3.2 miles | 21 | |
| Keigley | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Benjamin | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Spring Lake | 4.7 miles | 21 | |
| Lewis | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| Townsend | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Lake Shore | 5.2 miles | 21 | |
| Genola | 5.3 miles | 19 |
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 West Mountain | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2886389 | The 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 1852922. 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.







