Aragonite, Utah

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Dugway-Wendover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84029. The Survey maps it on the Aragonite quadrangle. It stands 4,554 feet above sea level.

Aragonite within Tooele County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tooele quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1973 USGS Aragonite quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Bonneville Salt Flats quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

53 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Aragonite between 1993 and 2020, burning about 64,603 acres in total. 19 started naturally. None 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	LOW
17 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	KRISTIN
11 September 1997	Natural	5.0 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	DUNN
8 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	NORTH CEDA
8 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	NEED FISHING POLE
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	ARAGONITE
29 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	MILE 52
28 August 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	UP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Aragonite: 8 past producers, 4 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Silica. 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
West Grassy Ridge Sand Dunes	Silica	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Aragonite Quarry North	Limestone, General	Producer	Vein
Hastings Pass Nw Mine	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Vein
Hastings Pass Nw Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Vein
Hastings Pass Sw Prospect	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Vein
Se Aragonite Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer	Vein
So Aragonite Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Vein
Aragonite Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Hastings Pass Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit No 23085	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Tooele 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
Low	4.4 miles	14
Clive	6.5 miles	8
Delle	12.0 miles	14
Knolls	15.3 miles	8
Timpie	18.3 miles	16
Iosepa (historical)	19.7 miles	17
Dolomite	22.8 miles	16
Flux	24.1 miles	16

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 Q16868967

The 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 1437835. 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.