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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Brigham City quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Howell quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Tremonton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2,000 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | ANDERSON HILL |
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Bear River Area | 84 MERIDIAN |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SHALE ROCK |
| 8 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | I84 MP 10 AND 11 |
| 8 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,530 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | WHITES VALLEY |
| 31 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Bear River Area | 18 EAST |
| 3 August 2018 | Natural | 15,046 acres | Bear River Area | GORING |
| 29 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | I84 MM27 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Warm Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Bradshaw Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Bradshaw Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dutre Prospect | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Dutre Prospect | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02087 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02088 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ut Dept Highways Pit No.02154 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #02087 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments | |
| Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #02088 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Creek | - | The Promontory Point mesonet site recorded a maximum wind gust of 78 mph. |
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.
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4929004 | The 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.




