Big Plain Junction, Utah

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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
• 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS La Verkin 4 SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Smithsonian Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1980 USGS St. George quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Big Plain Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,296 acres in total. 33 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Apple Valley
• Grafton
• Gunlock
• Motoqua
• Shunesburg
• Springdale

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Big Plain Junction: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone, Volcanic Materials, Pumice, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Washington County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437501. 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.