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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.

West Mountain within Utah County

Population over time

2 figures

West 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,186
20201,250+64 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

248 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined100
Debris and open burning56
Natural26
Firearms and explosives use21
Equipment and vehicle use15
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony6
Fireworks5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsI-15, MM251
7 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
6 September 2012Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeP MOUNTAIN
6 September 1994Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBANDIT
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGOSHEN
5 September 2001Debris and open burning7.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHEPHERD
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWELDING
4 September 2011Recreation and ceremony38 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeBROAD HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Keigley Ne ProspectsIron, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSurface/Underground
Keigley QuarryLimestone, General, DolomiteProducer1943
Unknown Ls MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Genola No. 1 ProspectDolomiteOccurrenceSurface
Genola No. 2 ProspectDolomiteOccurrenceSurface
Goshen Hill Limestone QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerUnderground
West Mountain N. Central ProspectsLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceCalcite
Genola ShaftIronOccurrenceVein
West Mountain Ne ProspectIronOccurrenceSurface
West Mountain Nw ProspectIronOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Utah 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
Payson3.2 miles21
Keigley4.0 miles20
Benjamin4.0 miles21
Spring Lake4.7 miles21
Lewis4.8 miles21
Townsend5.2 miles19
Lake Shore5.2 miles21
Genola5.3 miles19

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 MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2886389The 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.