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Collinston, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Tremonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84306. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cutler Dam quadrangle. It stands 4,432 feet above sea level.

Collinston within Box Elder County

On record in Collinston

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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, 2022

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.

Hay bales dot the landscape near the town of Collinston, Utah, close to the Idaho border
Hay bales dot the landscape near the town of Collinston, Utah, close to the Idaho border
Highsmith, Carol M, 2022. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Collinston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,686 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use16
Debris and open burning13
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
3 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use197 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCORNWALL
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBEAVER DAM 2400 WEST
27 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRANGE BULLS
21 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGARY BEAL
2 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRIVERSIDE
18 September 1999Natural2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLONG DIVIDE II
15 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMAG PIE
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMALAD RIVER BOTTOMS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Collinston: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 5 producers. 5 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
A.A. Capener PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
A.M. Porter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Aa Capener PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Am.Porter PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Collingston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSand
Collingston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Hansen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
L S Capener LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
L. Larsen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collinston in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCollinston-The SR-30 mesonet station recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.

Every storm recorded in Box Elder 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
Fielding3.0 miles10
Riverside3.0 miles9
Beaver Dam3.1 miles10
Garland4.2 miles9
Wheelon4.3 miles10
Deweyville4.4 miles11
Crossroads5.0 miles9
Tremonton5.7 miles9

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 CollinstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5147453The 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 1439895. 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.