Cedar, Utah

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Green River census division. It stands on Horse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cedar quadrangle.

Cedar within Emery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Woodside quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS Cedar quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Cedar between 1994 and 2017, burning about 59 acres in total. 28 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
Natural	28
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
26 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Moab Field Office	RING
18 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	DEAD HORSE
11 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Moab Field Office	ICELANDER
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HORSE JCT
3 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	THREE AMIGOS
3 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HORSE
3 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HOUND DOG
28 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SECTION14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Horse Canyon

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cedar: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Devil	Uranium	Occurrence	Underground
Rock Island Group	Uranium	Occurrence	Stratiform
Rock Island Group	Uranium	Prospect
Gravel Deposit #08056	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Deposit 08055	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Gravel Deposit 08056	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Limestone, Sandstone
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No. 08057	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Emery 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Horse Canyon	6.8 miles	17
Woodside	10.5 miles	17
Victor	13.8 miles	14
Elmo	19.1 miles	14
Cleveland	21.3 miles	13
Desert	22.3 miles	13
Lawrence	26.0 miles	15
Huntington	27.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437518. 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.