Editing Elsinore, Utah

{{Short description|  Town in the state of Utah, United States}}
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'''Elsinore''' is a town in [[Sevier County, Utah|Sevier County]], [[Utah]], United States. The population was 847 at the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]].

==History==
The community was first settled in the spring of 1874 by James C. Jensen, Jens Iver Jensen, and others.  The area was settled by [[Danish American|Danish]] converts to [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]], and named after [[Kronborg]] Castle, known as Elsinore in ''[[Hamlet]]''.<ref name="arrington" /><ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sa9SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c38DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6741%2C5066695 | title=You name it - there's a town for it | work=The Deseret News | date=January 22, 1977 | access-date=October 18, 2015 | author=Van Atta, Dale | pages=15}}</ref> [[Helsingør]], the city where Kronborg Castle is located, is classically known as Elsinore as well.

The first passenger train arrived on July 21, 1896, from the [[Denver & Rio Grande Railroad]].

Elsinore was home to a [[Utah-Idaho Sugar Company]] factory for processing [[sugar beet]]s into sugar from 1911 to 1929, but was closed due to a sugar beet blight.<ref name="arrington">{{cite book|last=Arrington|first=Leonard J.|title=Beet sugar in the West; a history of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966|publisher=[[University of Washington Press]]|year=1966|oclc=234150|pages=73–75}}</ref>

On September 29 and October 1, 1921, Elsinore was hit by a series of magnitude six earthquakes.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=dePolo |first1=Craig M. |title=The Maximum Background Earthquake for the Basin and Range Province, Western North America |journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America |date=April 1994 |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=466–472 |url=http://www.resolutionmineeis.us/sites/default/files/references/depolo-1994.pdf |access-date=June 10, 2018}}</ref> Some buildings were damaged, and residents were frightened from their homes, but no deaths were reported.

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of 1.3&nbsp;square miles (3.3&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), all land.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1880= 223
|1890= 590
|1900= 625
|1910= 656
|1920= 843
|1930= 654
|1940= 674
|1950= 657
|1960= 483
|1970= 357
|1980= 612
|1990= 608
|2000= 733
|2010= 847
|estyear=2019
|estimate=882
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2019CenPopScriptOnlyDirtyFixDoNotUse">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2019.html|date=May 24, 2020|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref>
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2000, there were 733 people, 261 households, and 196 families residing in the town. The [[population density]] was 581.8 people per square mile (224.6/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 287 housing units at an average density of 227.8 per square mile (87.9/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the town was 95.50% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.14% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 1.36% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.27% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.95% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.77% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 2.59% of the population.

There were 261 households, out of which 40.6% had children under 18 living with them, 59.8% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 13.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.9% were non-families. 23.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years or older. The average household size was 2.81, and the average family size was 3.33.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 33.4% under 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 23.2% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.9 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 85.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $27,917, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $30,208 versus $16,705 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $12,523. About 16.2% of families and 20.5% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 30.3% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those aged 65 or over.

== Library ==
In 1980, 10-year-old Jason Hardman petitioned Elsinore's mayor for permission to open a library. The library was initially set up in the basement of the town's public school (the historic town hall building), with 1,000 books. Hardman became the librarian, making him the youngest librarian in the United States. By 1982, the library had 10,000 volumes, largely from donations. By 1985, it had 17,000 volumes.<ref>{{cite news | last = Noyce | first = David | title = Sevier County's down-home residents give it a unique character | newspaper = [[Salt Lake Tribune]] | date = July 31, 2005 | url = http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2903068?rss | access-date = April 29, 2014}}</ref>

== Staples Art Center ==
The town also has a small art gallery and gift shop to support area artists.  One of the founding members, Sue Ann Staples Brady, named it for her great-great-grandfather, George Staples, whose work with Native American tribes was instrumental in its founding.

== References ==
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* {{citation |first= Richard L. |last= Jensen |author-link= Richard L. Jensen |contribution= Danish Immigration and Life in Utah |url= http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/d/DANISH_IMMIGRATION.html |editor-last= Powell |editor-first= Allan Kent |year= 1994 |title= Utah History Encyclopedia |location= Salt Lake City, Utah |publisher= [[University of Utah Press]] |isbn= 978-0874804256 |oclc= 30473917 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002009/http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/d/DANISH_IMMIGRATION.html |archive-date= December 3, 2013 }}

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070320155305/http://www.seis.utah.edu/lqthreat/nehrp_htm/1921elsi/n1921el1.shtml 1921 Elsinore, Utah Earthquake]
*[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20080608/ai_n25506071 Staples Art Center]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

{{Geographic Location
|Centre    = Elsinore
|North     = [[Holden, Utah|Holden]]
|Northeast = [[Richfield, Utah|Richfield]]
|East      = [[Central Valley, Utah|Central Valley]]
|Southeast = [[Koosharem, Utah|Koosharem]]
|South     = [[Monroe, Utah|Monroe]]
|Southwest = [[Joseph, Utah|Joseph]]
|West      = ''[[Fishlake National Forest]]''
|Northwest = [[Fillmore, Utah|Fillmore]]<br/>[[Meadow, Utah|Meadow]]<br/>[[Kanosh, Utah|Kanosh]]
}}

{{Sevier County, Utah}}

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[[Category:Danish-American history]]
[[Category:Towns in Sevier County, Utah]]
[[Category:Towns in Utah]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1874]]
[[Category:1874 establishments in Utah Territory]]
[[Category:Kronborg]]