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Cedar Creek, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the West Box Elder census division. It lies near Green Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Kelton Pass quadrangle. It stands 5,161 feet above sea level.

Cedar Creek within Box Elder County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1992 and 2018, burning about 14,365 acres in total. 15 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
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
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
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field Office42
2 September 2015Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestMOBERG
10 September 2006Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMOKEINTHECEDARS
7 August 1998Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeCEDARCREEK
6 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROSE
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestDUFFY CREEK
2 August 2009Natural66 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD BLACK PINE
15 August 2007Natural9,529 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeDUFFY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Creek: 11 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Cedar Creek GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cedar Creek Hi GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cedar Creek Hi GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
U - 30 - 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
U-30-2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
U-30-2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U-42-2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
U-42-2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Box Elder 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
Hardup4.8 miles11
Curlew Junction5.1 miles11
Park Valley13.7 miles12
Standrod14.1 miles13
Kelton15.3 miles10
Rosette16.9 miles13
Yost20.5 miles12
Snowville23.7 miles10

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 Cedar CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5056606The 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 1437519. 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.