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Bennion, Utah

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84129. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City South quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bennion within Salt Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bennion (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
31 August 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBINGHAM ASSIST
9 July 2019Fireworks2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAJESTIC OAKS ASSIST
7 June 1997Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMURDOCK
5 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands888 W ROCKHILL POINT CV
4 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5525 S COUGAR LN
21 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands963 W MOGUL PEAK RD
19 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands4430 S ATHERTON DR
1 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands5167 W 6275 S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Bennion (historical): 25 producers, 24 past producers, 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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
All Minerals MillBarium-BariteProducer
Alta ChampionSilver, Lead, Gold, BismuthProducerVein
Dry Fork MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Midvale Minerals CoLead, Zinc, Silver, ArsenicPast Producer
Midvale Minerals Co.Zinc, Silver, Lead, ArsenicProducer
National Tunnel and Mines Co.Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer
New EnglandSilver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Onyx RanchGemstoneProducerOnyx
Spring and SummitGold, SilverPast Producer
UnknownMercury, LeadOccurrenceCinnabar, Mercury

Every working recorded in Salt Lake 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
West Jordan2.0 miles24
Taylorsville2.0 miles25
Atwood2.2 miles25
Midvale2.8 miles24
Dalton2.9 miles25
Murray3.3 miles25
Kearns3.4 miles25
Union3.7 miles25

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 Q122545245The 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 1425430. 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.