Colton, Utah

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Springville-Mapleton census division. It lies near Woods Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Colton quadrangle.

Colton within Utah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1885 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
1939 USGS Soldier Summit quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1942 USGS Soldier Summit 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 Colton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Nephi quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Colton between 1993 and 2018, burning about 60 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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/undetermined	7
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
21 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	not named
2 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TABBYUNE
12 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PICNIC FIRE
23 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	RIAD RIDGE
15 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	TIMBER LANE
14 August 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COLTON SHED
21 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WAYNE
19 July 2000	Natural	6.0 acres	Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest	TABY UNE

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Colton: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beaver Creek Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #25103	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #25104	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 25104	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. 25103	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Utah 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Kyune	4.0 miles	17
Gilluly	9.7 miles	20
Tucker (historical)	11.4 miles	20
Sky View (historical)	12.7 miles	20
Mill Fork	17.4 miles	16
Rio	24.1 miles	17
Three Forks	24.2 miles	22
West Portal	24.7 miles	22

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 Colton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5149462	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 1437529. 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.