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Beryl, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beryl-Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84714. The Survey maps it on the Beryl quadrangle. It stands 5,154 feet above sea level.

Beryl within Iron 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

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Beryl between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
4 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsZANE
28 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsYALE CROSSING
8 July 2015Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeLIZA WASH
6 July 2007Natural1.7 acresCedar City Field OfficeBERYLE
27 July 2020Naturalunder an acreSouthwest AreaMM 6 SR 56
20 July 1998Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands4-MILE WASH
18 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALVAGE
1 July 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Beryl: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Ut Dept Hwys Borrow Pit No 11084Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No 11085Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Borrow Pit No. 11084Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand
Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11085Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Zane4.6 miles13
Yale Crossing5.1 miles13
Heist10.4 miles13
Beryl Junction12.9 miles13
Lund14.4 miles8
Modena15.5 miles13
Avon16.5 miles13
Newcastle16.9 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on BerylAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3709524The 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 1437500. 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.