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Bullion Falls, Utah

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Marysvale census division. It stands on Cascade Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mount Brigham quadrangle.

Bullion Falls within Piute County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Bullion Falls between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,526 acres in total. 14 started naturally. None 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
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFishlake National ForestPURPLE PEAK
4 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFishlake National Forestnot named
22 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAIL 1106 FIRE
22 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFishlake National ForestTRAIL1106
3 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestMILL CANYON
29 August 1995Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestDEER HAVEN
24 August 2011Naturalunder an acreFishlake National ForestBULLION CANYON
2 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFishlake National ForestNOSTRIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Piute County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 124 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 124 workings within 5 miles of Bullion Falls: 72 past producers, 27 occurrences, 22 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Gold, Silver, Uranium. 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
Bully Boy MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer1868
Bully Boy and Webster MineFluorine-Fluorite, Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, LeadPast Producer1886
Cascade MineSilver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, ManganesePast ProducerVein
Cascade MineZinc, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Contact No 4Lead, CopperOccurrenceQuartz
Crystal MineGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast ProducerVein
Crystal MineSilver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
DaltonGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast ProducerBornite, Gold, Silver, Tetrahedrite
DaltonLead, Gold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Deer Trail MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper, CadmiumPast Producer1878

Every working recorded in Piute 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
Alunite5.3 miles20
Upper Kimberly6.1 miles18
Lower Kimberly6.2 miles18
Marysvale6.4 miles20
Thompsonville6.5 miles20
Hoovers7.8 miles19
Pittsburg7.8 miles19
Junction13.4 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122565254The 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 1439306. 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.