Bone Valley, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Panguitch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84759. It lies near Pole Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Circleville Mountain quadrangle.

Bone Valley within Garfield County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1885 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Circleville Mtn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Circleville Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Bone Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,438 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 6 were 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
Natural	20
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Fishlake National Forest	not named
20 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	SOUTH CREEK
14 September 2005	Natural	347 acres	Fishlake National Forest	CHOKECHERRY
11 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	ANDERSON MEADOW
27 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	ROUND
26 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	TENNESEN
24 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	LOST CREEK
17 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Fishlake National Forest	COYOTE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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 Bone Valley: 8 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Mercury, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Dog Valley Prospects	Mercury, Silver, Iron, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Cinnabar, Fluorite, Magnetite, Metacinnabar
Granite Knolls South	Fluorine-Fluorite, Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Granite Knolls South	Chromium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer
Granite Knolls North	Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Granite Knolls North	Silver	Past Producer
Veater Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Vein
Veater Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
Veater Mercury	Mercury	Occurrence	1915
Veater Mercury	Mercury	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Gravel

Every working recorded in Garfield 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spry	7.5 miles	13
Bear Valley Junction	11.1 miles	16
Panguitch	21.0 miles	15
Antimony	21.4 miles	17
Osiris	24.4 miles	17
Hillsdale	28.1 miles	16
Widtsoe Junction	29.4 miles	14
Widtsoe	29.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437507. 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.