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Buena Vista, Utah

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Salt Lake City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84104. The Survey maps it on the Salt Lake City North quadrangle.

Buena Vista within Salt Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 27 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Buena Vista between 1992 and 2020, burning about 547 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Natural1

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
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined460 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSALT LAKE ASSIST
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAILER
6 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsENSIGN INCORPORATED
5 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOSQUITO
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBECK ST ASSIST
20 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBANGERTER ASSIST
20 August 2019Railroad operations and maintenance9.6 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTANDLEE EAST ASSIST
20 August 2019Railroad operations and maintenance9.8 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTANDLEE WEST ASSIST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Salt Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Buena Vista: 19 producers, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite, Geothermal, Antimony. 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
Intermountain Smelting CorpAntimonyProducer
Victory Road Lime Pit.Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerCalcite
Becks Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Custom Milling & Supply MillBarium-BaritePast Producer
Eisenman Barite MillBarium-BariteProducer
Wasatch 8ot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
A-1 Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
A-1 Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Breitling Brothers N. Salt Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gardner Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Salt Lake County

Storms near this place

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buena Vista in 6 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2023FloodBuena Vista$150,000Multiple streets and Hunter High School in West Valley City were flooded. Flooding led to vehicles stranded along California Avenue between 2700 West and Gladiola Street in Salt Lake City.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-The Salt Lake City International Airport ASOS station recorded wind gusts of 59 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-ASOS station KSLC at Salt Lake City International Airport recorded a wind gust of 69 mph.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-The FAA Wind Sensor at Salt Lake City International Airport recorded a wind gust of 65 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-The Salt Lake City International Airport ASOS recorded a peak wind gust of 67 mph.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindBuena Vista-A peak wind gusts of 58 mph was recorded by a sensor at Salt Lake City International Airport.

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
Terminal2.3 miles20
Redwood (historical)3.3 miles25
Granite3.8 miles25
Salt Lake City4.0 miles27
Granger4.1 miles25
Roper4.3 miles25
West Valley City4.8 miles20
Becks4.8 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1454288. 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.