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Burmester, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Tooele-Grantsville census division. It stands on Warm Springs Slough. The Survey maps it on the Burmester quadrangle. It stands 4,219 feet above sea level.

Burmester within Tooele 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.

Fires near this place

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Burmester between 1995 and 2020, burning about 4,942 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural3
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Firearms and explosives use1
Other causes1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNORTH COOLEY
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeSALT ROAD
22 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEVANS
8 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHIGLEY
8 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAR FIRE
5 August 2010Other causesunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCHURCH RD.
5 August 2010Natural2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTEAD
4 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands88

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burmester: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bromine. 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
Burmester Section of Great Salt LakeBromineProducer1825

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burmester in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2009Thunderstorm WindBurmester$10,000A semitrailer was blown over at mile marker 85 on I-80.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindBurmester$2,000A 51 knot wind gust was estimated at Burmester, and vinyl siding on a home was torn off.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindBurmester-The Solar Union Pacific Railroad automated weather station recorded a peak wind gust of 58 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBurmester-UDOT reported a semitrailer blown over on Interstate 80 near milepost 85.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBurmester-The Burmester sensor recorded a peak gust of 60 mph.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBurmester-The I-80 Grassey sensor measured a 55 knot wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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
Flux5.5 miles16
Grantsville6.3 miles15
Dolomite6.6 miles16
Marshall6.9 miles15
Mills Junction9.0 miles16
Stansbury park9.1 miles16
Erda9.5 miles17
Lake Point10.1 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.

Wikipedia article on BurmesterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4999466The 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 1437515. 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.