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Willard, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brigham City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84340. It lies in Willard Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Willard quadrangle. 1,978 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,350 feet above sea level.

Willard within Box Elder County

On record in Willard

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

Population over time

2 figures

Willard grew from 1,772 to 1,978 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
20101,772
20201,978+206 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

2 photographs,

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.

Shadrach Jones House, 101 West Second South, Willard, Box Elder County, UT
Shadrach Jones House, 101 West Second South, Willard, Box Elder County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
John L. Edwards Granary, 55 South Second West, Willard, Box Elder County, UT
John L. Edwards Granary, 55 South Second West, Willard, Box Elder County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Willard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,899 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined42
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use17
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Smoking2
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
8 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands362
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDEAD MANS CURVE
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestHOLMES
29 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWARMING
22 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands384
2 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsI-15 MP 356
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILLARD BAY DIKE
19 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBAY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Willard: 23 past producers, 19 producers, 13 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Copper, Clay, Copper, Silver. 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
AmericanSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Clay Pits and Borrow PitsClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
EldoradoSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1898
EldoradoLead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Homber MinesGraphite, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceLead, Malachite, Schist
Homber MinesZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, CoalPast Producer
Ogden Boilermakers ClaimCopper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Overland ClaimSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Silver QueenLeadOccurrenceVein
Stone QuarryQuartzPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

7 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willard in 7 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 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
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Willard$25,000A magnitude EF0 tornado touched down in Willard. The tornado path was one mile, starting at 75 East 300 South and ending at 300 East 230 South. The damage from the tornado included damaged siding, several uprooted trees, a couple of snapped trees, and a tossed empty snowmobile trailer.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWillard-A wind gust of 62 mph was recorded at the I-15 at Willard POE mesonet site.
June 2020HailWillard-Half-dollar-sized hail was reported in South Willard.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWillard-Wind gusts with this storm in Box Elder County included 66 mph at the Interstate 15 at Willard Point of Entry sensor, and 60 mph at at Interstate 15 at Tremonton sensor.
June 2014Funnel CloudWillard-A cold air funnel cloud was spotted over Willard Bay. The funnel did not move over land.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindWillard-The Willard Point of Entry sensor recorded a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWillard-A 56 knot wind gust was measured at a sensor near Willard Point of Entry on I-15.

Every storm recorded in Box Elder 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
Nerva2.8 miles12
South Willard3.2 miles12
Perry3.9 miles11
Brigham City7.1 miles12
Mantua7.7 miles13
Corinne10.6 miles12
Bear River City15.0 miles11
Honeyville16.0 miles11

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 WillardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q482707The 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 1447372. 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.