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Castle Rock, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Coalville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84017. It stands on Tristram Creek. The Survey maps it on the Castle Rock quadrangle. It stands 6,214 feet above sea level.

Castle Rock within Summit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Castle Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 246 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use16
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural3
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2

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
6 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCASTEL ROCK 2
3 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSLAUGHTERHOUSE CREEK
28 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLITTLE RAIL
12 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands186 CASTLEROCK
1 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined177 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsASPEN MEADOWS
3 August 2000Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNEW PORT
23 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsVIRGINIA
22 August 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLOST FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castle Rock in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2010: 2 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCastle Rock-A 59 mph wind gust was measured at the Wasatch Hills sensor.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindCastle Rock-The Wasatch Hills sensor recorded a maximum wind gust of 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Summit 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
Emory6.9 miles10
Wahsatch7.7 miles9
Upton10.4 miles22
Echo Resort15.1 miles22
Echo15.7 miles22
Coalville16.9 miles22
Henefer17.0 miles10
Hoytsville18.9 miles24

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 Q97601722The 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 1437517. 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.

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.