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Cook Corner, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84751. The Survey maps it on the Milford Flat quadrangle.

Cook Corner within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Cook Corner between 1992 and 2011, burning about 11,292 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined8
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWELLS
8 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBEAVER RIVER
4 August 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTRAVIS
2 August 1996Natural10,476 acresCedar City Field OfficeHONEY BOY
4 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBALD RIDGE
29 July 2001Smokingunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsBARNES
26 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHARD LUCK
18 July 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCATES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Cook Corner: 26 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Copper. 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
Estelle MineLead, Zinc, Copper, SilverPast Producer1875
Estelle MineZinc, Silver, LeadPast Producer
Gold Crown MineGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, IronPast Producer1872, 1875
Gold Crown MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Harrington-Hickory MineLead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc, Antimony, ManganesePast Producer1860, 1870
Prospects Northwest of Hearn WellZinc, Silver, Lead, CopperOccurrenceReplacement
Unknown ProspectCopper, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrence
Woodhouse MineSilver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1910, 1950
Woodhouse ShaftsGold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, IronPast ProducerHematite, Limonite, Pyrite
Woodhouse ShaftsZinc, Lead, CopperPast ProducerUnderground

Every working recorded in Beaver 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
Upton2.2 miles10
Laho4.2 miles10
Shenendoah City6.2 miles9
Shauntie7.1 miles9
Milford7.3 miles11
Thermo8.6 miles9
Minersville8.6 miles17
Yellow Banks9.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437532. 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.