Angle, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Circleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84712. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Angle quadrangle.

Angle within Piute County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1885 USGS Fish Lake quadrangle1:250000
1896 USGS Fish Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1960 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Salina quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Angle quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Loa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2002 USGS Angle quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Angle between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,449 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	LITTLE MEADOW
22 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	ANDYS CANYON
20 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	RED YUBA
6 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	WHITE LEDGE
11 July 2007	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	DEAD HORSE
16 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Central Area	BLOOD
31 March 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Richfield Field Office	OTTERCREEK
3 October 1993	Debris and open burning	777 acres	Richfield Field Office	KINGSTON

Every fire recorded in Piute County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Angle: 5 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Nucular Sniffer #1 Prospect	Uranium	Occurrence
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 16020	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 16021	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept Highways Pit No 16023	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit # 16020	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16021	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16022	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #16023	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel

Every working recorded in Piute County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Angle in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Flash Flood	Angle	-	Flash flooding occurred near the town of Angle due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Piute 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kingston	11.5 miles	16
Greenwich	12.9 miles	18
Junction	12.9 miles	16
Circleville	16.5 miles	14
Alunite	16.9 miles	20
Thompsonville	17.2 miles	20
Marysvale	19.3 miles	20
Bullion Falls	22.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1438227. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.