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Cisco, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Thompson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84515. The Survey maps it on the Cisco quadrangle.

Cisco within Grand County

On record in Cisco

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Dewey Bridge, Spanning Colorado River at State Highway 128, Cisco, Grand County, UT
Dewey Bridge, Spanning Colorado River at State Highway 128, Cisco, Grand County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cisco between 1993 and 2020, burning about 329 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCISCO DUMP
14 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCISCO
14 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCAR
3 August 2003Natural1.3 acresMoab Field OfficeCISCO
4 July 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreMoab Field OfficeRAMP
4 July 1998Natural100 acresMoab Field OfficeCISCO
18 July 1993Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresMoab Field OfficeWAKEUP
13 July 2008Natural2.0 acresMoab Field OfficeCISCO DESERT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cisco: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #10011Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #10014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit 10011Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit No 10014Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cisco in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 2 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death. 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 1999LightningCisco1 killedno account filed
September 2000HailCisco$10,000no account filed
September 2025Heavy RainCisco-Law Enforcement reported standing water on Interstate 70 near Cisco, UT due to heavy rain from passing thunderstorms.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCisco-no account filed
July 2000WildfireCisco-no account filed
July 2000WildfireCisco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grand 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
Agate5.1 miles19
Cottonwood9.8 miles19
Elba10.0 miles22
Dewey11.1 miles25
Westwater13.3 miles20
Sagers14.8 miles22
Vista18.9 miles22
Sego20.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437522. 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.