Brian Head, Utah Brian Head, Utah Location in Iron County and the state of Utah.
Location in Iron County and the state of Utah.
Country United States State Utah Named for Brian Head Peak Brian Head is a town in Iron County, Utah, United States.
Brian Head is also the locale of the Brian Head Ski Resort.
The improve was originally called "Monument Peak," but was changed to the current name after 1900 for reasons no longer known, although probably related to the name of (or renaming to) Brian Head Peak, in close-by Dixie National Forest.
In 1964, the Brian Head resort opened.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km ), all of it land.
The community, at an altitude of 9800 feet above sea level, is the highest town in Utah, as well as the second highest altitude town in the United States altogether.
Brian Head is about three miles north of Cedar Breaks National Monument.
There were 912 housing units at an average density of 294.1 per square mile (113.6/km ).
There were 55 homeholds out of which 18.2% had kids under the age of 18 residing with them, 49.1% were married couples residing together, 1.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.0% were non-families.
38.2% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and none had someone residing alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.85.
The age distribution was 22.0% under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 34.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $44,063, and the median income for a family was $44,375.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification, Brian Head has an alpine subarctic climate (Dsc).
With a mean annual snow flurry of 355.9 inches or 9.04 metres, Brian Head is one of the snowiest inhabited places in the United States, receiving over 5 feet or 1.5 metres more snow than Valdez, Alaska.
Snow depth remains at 7 inches or 0.18 metres as late as June, with the average monthly depth being around 75 inches or 1.91 metres in March and April, with extremes of over 130 inches or 3.30 metres.
The most snow flurry in one month was 142 inches or 3.61 metres amid March 1995 and the most amid a full year 486 inches or 12.34 metres between July 1997 and June 1998.
Winter temperatures are cold, with 80.3 days each year not topping freezing (a number certainly inflated by the very deep snow cover) and 0 F or 17.8 C reached nineteen times in an average winter.
The very heavy snow does not ease until May when temperatures begin to rise above 50 F or 10 C, and May and June are also the driest months.
Summer weather in Brian Head is influenced by the tail end of the North American Monsoon, which provides incessant thunderstorms in July and August, though convection is inhibited by the cool temperatures at Brian Head's extreme altitude.
Climate data for Brian Head, Utah Average high F ( C) 29.7 Average low F ( C) 10.0 United States Enumeration Bureau.
United States Geological Survey.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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