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Alta Acres, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the North Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84037. It lies near Bair Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kaysville quadrangle.

Alta Acres within Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Alta Acres between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,431 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural10
Fireworks5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning1

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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestROCK RING
7 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERNWOOD
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSNOW CREEK
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFRUIT
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDANIELS CANYON
5 September 2002Debris and open burning100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFARMINGTON BAY
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined128 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSNOQUALMIE
16 September 2019Natural365 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFRANCIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Alta Acres: 12 prospects, 7 occurrences, 6 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Copper, Gold. 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
Morning Star Claims GroupCopper, GoldOccurrence
Morris Creek East ProspectsCopperOccurrenceVein
Nance and FanningCopperOccurrence
Nance and Fanning ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Upper Baer Canyon WorkingsCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Malachite
Mountain Road Gravel Pit.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit 06015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Davis 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
Calder Hill0.2 miles13
Cherrywood0.2 miles13
Upland0.2 miles13
Rolling Greens0.3 miles13
Four Corners0.3 miles13
Heath0.4 miles13
Foster-Grant0.4 miles13
Gailey0.5 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122573202The 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 1454097. 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.