Coal City, Utah
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Helper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84526. It lies near Coal Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Jump Creek quadrangle. It stands 7,133 feet above sea level.
On record in Coal City
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Sweet Mine, Southwest 1/4 section 17 Township 13 South, Range 8 East, Coal Cityfederal building survey, 7 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1885 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
- 1923 USGS Scofield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1925 USGS Scofield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Jump Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 2001 USGS Jump Creek quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
31 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Coal City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 24 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 | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | BULL POINT |
| 16 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | OAK SPRINGS |
| 1 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Moab Field Office | TRUSSEL |
| 9 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | ROAD TRIP |
| 5 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | SPRINGS CANYON |
| 4 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SLASH |
| 31 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | WILDCAT |
| 30 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | LONE TREE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Latuda | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Standardville | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Wildcat | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Storrs | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Peerless | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Clear Creek | 7.4 miles | 20 | |
| Martin | 8.2 miles | 20 |
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 Coal City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5137705 | The 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 1451215. 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.









