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Brighton, Utah

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Cottonwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84121. It lies near Mount Evergreen. The Survey maps it on the Brighton quadrangle. 432 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 8,707 feet above sea level.

Brighton within Salt Lake County

On record in Brighton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Brighton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13 acres in total. 23 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
Recreation and ceremony25
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMARY
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestREDMAN
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGUARDSMAN PASS-CLOUD RIM
6 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBONANZA-CLOUD RIM
5 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGUARDSMAN PASS
4 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestALBION BASIN
4 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBRIGHTON ESTATES
4 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestMINERAL BASIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 338 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 338 workings within 5 miles of Brighton: 220 past producers, 67 occurrences, 31 producers, 19 prospects. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Copper, Silver, Lead, Lead. 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
Alta Consolidated MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, IronPast Producer1875, 1919
Alta Consolidated MineZinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
American Flag ShaftSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Manganese, IronPast ProducerGalena, Tetrahedrite
American Flag ShaftGold, Silver, Manganese, Lead, Copper, IronPast Producer
American Flag Shaft No. 2Silver, Lead, Gold, Iron, Manganese, CopperPast ProducerGalena, Tetrahedrite
American ProspectLead, Zinc, CopperProspect
American TunnelCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ManganesePast Producer1875, 1918
Anchor ShaftSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Anchor Tunnel ProtalGold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Big and Little Cottonwood DistrictsSilver, Lead, Cobalt, Gold, ZincPast Producer1864

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brighton in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 flash flood. 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 2013Flash FloodBrighton$15,000Heavy rain over the Salt Lake Valley flooded six residential properties in Midvale and Sandy. A couple of homes had significant basement flooding, while others had flooding on lawns and other outdoor property. The worst of the flooding was near 8000 South and 700 East in Sandy, where two homes had more than $5,000 in damage each.

Every storm recorded in Salt Lake 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
Silver Fork2.3 miles26
Alta3.1 miles26
Wasatch Resort9.8 miles25
Mount Aire11.1 miles26
Cottonwood Heights12.1 miles25
Mount Olympus12.3 miles25
Knudsens Corner12.4 miles25
Little Cottonwood Creek Valley13.1 miles25

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 BrightonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66222167The 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 1439115. 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.