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Black Rock, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fillmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84751. The Survey maps it on the Black Rock quadrangle. It stands 4,856 feet above sea level.

Black Rock within Millard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Black Rock between 1994 and 2020, burning about 234 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
29 September 2005Natural164 acresRichfield Field OfficeSTATE 63
5 August 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresCentral AreaBLACK ROCK WELL
21 August 1999Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeGRANDSTAND
30 July 1994Natural60 acresRichfield Field OfficeCRICKET
1 July 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHIDDEN FIRE
4 June 2020Naturalunder an acreCentral AreaKANOSH 257
4 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRichfield Field OfficeHITCHIKER
28 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCABOOSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Millard County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Black Rock: 11 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Copper, Gold, Silver, Silver, Manganese, Gold, Copper, Iron. 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
Iron DepositsIronOccurrence
Mack #1 & Mack #2Manganese, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceMalachite
Mack 1 and Mack 2Silver, Manganese, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Black Rock Gravel Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Black Rock Gravel Pit No 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Black Rock Gravel Pit No.1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Black Rock Gravel Pit No.2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14082Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14083Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit 14084Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Millard 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
Malone4.4 miles13
Read9.9 miles13
Iron Basin14.8 miles13
Bloom17.2 miles13
Borden20.5 miles13
Eightmile Point22.3 miles16
Sixmile Point24.0 miles16
Neels25.0 miles13

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 Black RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4921687The 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 1425709. 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.