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Blue Creek, Utah

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Howell-Snowville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84307. The Survey maps it on the Howell quadrangle. It stands 4,701 feet above sea level.

Blue Creek within Box Elder County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Blue Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 35,022 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2005Debris and open burning2,000 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsANDERSON HILL
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear River Area84 MERIDIAN
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSHALE ROCK
8 August 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsI84 MP 10 AND 11
8 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4,530 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWHITES VALLEY
31 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBear River Area18 EAST
3 August 2018Natural15,046 acresBear River AreaGORING
29 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsI84 MM27

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Blue Creek: 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Blue Warm SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Bradshaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Bradshaw PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dutre ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Dutre ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02087Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02088Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02154Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #02087Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #02088Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Creek in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBlue Creek-The Blue Creek mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 63 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindBlue Creek-The Promontory Point mesonet site recorded a maximum wind gust of 78 mph.

Every storm recorded in Box Elder 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
Howell4.6 miles9
Washakie13.9 miles10
Thatcher14.5 miles11
Bothwell14.5 miles11
Snowville15.2 miles10
Portage15.4 miles10
Lampo Junction15.7 miles11
Plymouth16.6 miles10

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 Blue CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4929004The 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 1437505. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.