Hyrum

History

Hyrum was founded in 1860 by a group of 23 families, mainly either Danish immigrants or sons of Ezra T. Benson. Benson organized an LDS ward there in May 1860. The town got a post office in 1861. By 1900 the population had grown to the point that the ward was divided in three. Hyrum had 1,869 inhabitants in 1930. On December 12, 2006, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E) staged a coordinated predawn raid at E.A. Miller, a meat packing plant in Hyrum, and at five other Swift & Company plants located in the western United States, interviewing workers and hauling off hundreds in buses. On December 30, 2017, an elementary-school art teacher was reprimanded, and eventually terminated, after showing classical nude images in the classroom setting. The images were from materials provided by the school.

Geography

Hyrum is located near the southern end of the Cache Valley and is bordered to the southwest by Hyrum Reservoir. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which , or 0.26%, is water. This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Hyrum has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Black-billed Magpie

  Pica hudsonia (Sabine, 1823) · Aves
  5,333
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  5,323
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,020
• European Starling

  Sturnus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,808
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  4,242
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  3,997
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  3,934
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  3,919

Most recent

• M 3.23 — 2026-07-23
  6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
• M 2.99 — 2026-07-22
  6 km WSW of Bennington, Idaho
• M 2.57 — 2026-07-11
  15 km W of Paris, Idaho
• M 2.59 — 2026-06-25
  12 km E of Millville, Utah
• M 2.51 — 2026-06-16
  25 km NNW of Snowville, Utah
• M 2.6 — 2026-06-15
  2 km ESE of Malad City, Idaho