BlockColumbia, Utah
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Carbon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84520. It lies near Water Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. It stands 6,185 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
- 1915 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Price quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
42 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Columbia (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 637 acres in total. 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Moab Field Office | BIG ROCK |
| 7 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | HORSE CANYON |
| 6 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | PATMOS |
| 5 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | SUNNYSIDE |
| 10 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | WATER CANYON |
| 7 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | TANK |
| 30 August 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Moab Field Office | FAN |
| 3 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Moab Field Office | THREE AMIGOS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnydale | 1.5 miles | 20 | |
| Sunnyside | 2.4 miles | 20 | |
| Dragerton (historical) | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| East Carbon City | 2.7 miles | 20 | |
| Columbia Junction | 3.4 miles | 20 | |
| Upper Sunnyside | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Bruin Point | 8.8 miles | 20 | |
| Sunnyside Junction | 10.1 miles | 18 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q123472776 | 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 1426815. 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.