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Center Creek, Utah

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Heber City East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84032. It stands on Center Creek. The Survey maps it on the Center Creek quadrangle.

Center Creek within Wasatch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Center Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,663 acres in total. 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Debris and open burning39
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural17
Fireworks10
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEBER ASSIST 2
6 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSMITH FIRE
4 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCOYOTE LANE
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLAKE CREEK
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyBWALLOW1
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPHONE POLE
21 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMILLERS
20 September 2000Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNORTHFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wasatch County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Center Creek: 9 producers, 6 past producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Big Hollow Crushed Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducerQuartzite
Timber Lakes QuarriesStone, DimensionProducerSandstone
Center Creek Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Heber City Borrow Pit. #2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26015Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26017Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26022Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept of Hwys No 26023Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Wasatch County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center Creek in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCenter Creek$1,000Public report of intense winds blowing trees, breaking tree parts, and damaging household parts outside.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCenter Creek-A wind gust of 75 mph was recorded at the Currant Creek Peak mesonet site.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCenter Creek-A wind gust of 63 mph was recorded at the Duchesne Ridge mesonet site.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindCenter Creek-The Creek Peak Avalanche sensor recorded a peak wind gust of 62 mph.
July 2013HailCenter Creek-Hail approximately the size of a penny was reported near Heber City.

Every storm recorded in Wasatch 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
Daniel3.1 miles21
Heber City3.6 miles26
Timber Lakes5.8 miles22
Charleston6.0 miles21
Midway6.6 miles26
Mountain Spa6.7 miles26
Wallsburg7.1 miles21
Interlaken7.5 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1439607. 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.