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Beryl Junction, Utah
Beryl Junction ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Iron County, Utah, Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 197 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Beryl Junction Airport, a small, private airport, is located here. Geography Beryl Junction is located at (and specifically the name of) the junction of two state highways, Utah State Route 18, SR-18 and Utah State Route 56, SR-56, in the southwestern part of Iron County, some northwest of Newcastle, Utah, Newcastle. The city of Enterprise, Utah, Enterprise is about south, and the small community of Beryl, Utah, Beryl is approximately north. Beryl Junction sits on the southern edge of the Escalante Desert. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Most of it lies to the southeast of the junction itself. History In 1909, the New Castle Reclamation Company invested in land near the Beryl Crossroads in the Escalante Valley. The company built a hotel to bring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census-designated Place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such as self-governing city (United States), cities, town (United States), towns, and village (United States), villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated area, unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, Edge city, edge cities, colonia (United States), colonias located along the Mexico–United States border, and unincorporated resort and retirement community, retirement communities and their environs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah State Route 56
State Route 56 (SR-56) is a state highway completely within Iron County in southwestern Utah. SR-56 runs from the Utah/Nevada border to SR-130 in Cedar City. Route description From its western terminus on the Nevada border near Modena, the route heads northeast until reaching Modena, where it turns southeast. It continues this direction until Newcastle, where it begins heading east and then southeast. After a junction with Pinto Road, it leaves the Harmony Mountains, enters Cedar Valley, then the route heads northeast until entering Cedar City, where it runs east until its eastern terminus. The portion of SR-56 from Iron Springs Road west of Cedar City to the eastern terminus at SR-130 is part of the National Highway System. History The road from Beryl Junction west to Modena became a state highway in 1918, Utah Department of TransportationHighway Resolutions , updated September 2007, accessed May 2008 Utah Department of TransportationState Route History, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Census-designated Places In Utah
This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Utah. At the 2010 census, there were 81 CDPs in Utah. That number dropped to 79 in 2016 when first Dutch John then Millcreek incorporated, and to 74 when five in Salt Lake County became metro townships. Census-Designated Places See also * List of municipalities in Utah References {{Lists of CDPs by state Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ... Census-designated places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar City, Utah
Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States. Located south of Salt Lake City, it is north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15 in Utah, Interstate 15. Southern Utah University is located in Cedar City. It is the home of the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Games, the Simon Fest Theatre Co., and other events. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census the city had a population of 35,235, up from 28,857 in the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History The presence of prehistoric people in the Cedar City area is revealed by rock art found in Parowan Gap to the north and Fremont culture, Fremont sites dated to A.D. 1000 and 1300. Ancestors of the present-day Southern Paiute people met the Domínguez–Escalante expedition in this area in 1776. Fifty years later, in 1826, mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith traveled through the area, exploring a route from Utah to California. Cedar City was originally settled in late 1851 by Mormon pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau, officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the Federal statistical system, U.S. federal statistical system, responsible for producing data about the American people and American economy, economy. The U.S. Census Bureau is part of the United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce and its Director of the United States Census Bureau, director is appointed by the president of the United States. Currently, Ron S. Jarmin is the acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau's primary mission is conducting the United States census, U.S. census every ten years, which allocates the seats of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives to the U.S. state, states based on their population. The bureau's various censuses and surveys help allocate over $675 billion in federal funds every year and it assists states, local communities, and businesses in making informed decisions. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escalante Desert
The Escalante Desert is a geographic Great Basin region and arid desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in southwestern Utah. Geography The Escalante Desert is northwest of Cedar City in Iron County, Utah, and extends into part of Millard County. The region spans most of Iron County, which annually has rainfall and snowfall. The Escalante region also lies primarily between State Route 56 and Route 21, as well as north and west of Interstate 15. From the Escalante Desert region's peripheral ridges, the elevation slowly declines to Lund Flats (), Escalante Valley (1440962), Lund Flats (1430016), Lund (1430015), Beryl Junction (1437499)">!--replaced URL--> Beryl Junction (1437499)/ref> which has railroad tracks between Milford and Lund. Subsidence Near Beryl Junction () are 3 fissures formed by suspected groundwater-related subsidence caused by groundwater extraction for agricultural irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise, Utah
Enterprise is a city in northwestern Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 1,711 at the 2010 census. History A post office called Enterprise has been in operation since 1899. It was settled largely by residents of the town of Hebron, later abandoned. The town was so named for the settlers' enterprising plan to find a water supply. Cattle ranchers thrived in the area, but the town needed a consistent water supply to sustain themselves and for agriculture to spread. The settlers decided to take on the ambitious project of constructing a dam. Many thought that the dam would be impossible to accomplish and left the area. The rest of the settlers began work on the dam. With a lot of work and little return, the dam was completed, and the reservoir has supported the town ever since. Geography Enterprise is located on the south rim of the Great Basin, at an elevation of . Enterprise is about 40 miles northwest of St. George and 45 miles southwest of Cedar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle, Utah
Newcastle (also New Castle) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Iron County, Utah, United States. It lies along State Route 56, west of Cedar City. Newcastle has a post office with the ZIP code of 84756. The population was 247 at the 2010 census. Newcastle was founded in 1910 by citizens of the more isolated Pinto. Newcastle is a small farming community which has a dairy, orchard, greenhouses producing house plants and tomatoes, and several fields. Crops produced include wheat, oats, alfalfa, corn and potatoes. Demographics The 2010 census reported 247 people and 92 housing units in the CDP. The 2010 census reported racial makeup was 88.7% White, 0.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, and 10.9% other races. Hispanic or Latino heritage comprised 19.0% of the population. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Newcastle has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps. See also * List of cens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah State Route 18
State Route 18 (SR-18) is a state highway in southern Utah, running for in Washington County, Utah, Washington and Iron County, Utah, Iron Counties from Saint George, Utah, St. George to Beryl Junction, Utah, Beryl Junction. It forms part of the Legacy Loop Highway from St. George to Parowan, Utah, Parowan. The highway closely follows the route of the Old Spanish Trail (trade route), Old Spanish Trail through Dixie National Forest. Route description St. George to Veyo SR-18 begins at Convention Center/Sunland Drive just south of the Bluff Street interchange with Interstate 15 in Utah, I-15 in St. George as an urban arterial and heads north through the west side of downtown St. George. After passing Sunset Boulevard (SR-8 (UT), SR-8), the route has an inverted single-point urban interchange with Snow Canyon Parkway/Red Hills Parkway. The route has a dumbbell interchange at Ledges Parkway as it continues north, passing through Snow Canyon State Park. SR-18 continues northwest t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
