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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.

Coal City within Carbon County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

31 since 1994

Regional 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
16 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeBULL POINT
16 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeOAK SPRINGS
1 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTRUSSEL
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeROAD TRIP
5 August 2008Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeSPRINGS CANYON
4 August 2010Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSLASH
31 August 1994Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeWILDCAT
30 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLONE TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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
Consumers3.4 miles20
Latuda4.5 miles18
Standardville5.0 miles18
Wildcat5.3 miles18
Storrs5.7 miles18
Peerless5.9 miles18
Clear Creek7.4 miles20
Martin8.2 miles20

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 CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5137705The 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.