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Crescent Junction, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Thompson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84540. It lies near Crescent Flat. The Survey maps it on the Crescent Junction quadrangle. It stands 4,882 feet above sea level.

Crescent Junction within Grand County

On record in Crescent Junction

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

39 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Crescent Junction between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,134 acres in total. 5 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/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTRUCK TIRE
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOWER
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCRESENT BENCH
4 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreMoab Field OfficeH20 BOTTLE
30 August 2011Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCRESCENT JUNCTION
2 August 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMoab Field OfficeI70 MM 186
14 August 1993Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeTUSHER
10 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresMoab Field OfficeTHOMPSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Crescent Junction: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Potassium, Potassium, Magnesite, Magnesite. 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
Salt Valley AnticlinePotassium, MagnesiteOccurrenceCarnalite, Sylvite
Salt Valley AnticlinePotassium, MagnesiteOccurrence
Reeder No. 1 WellPotassiumOccurrenceCarnallite, Potash, Sylvite
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #10008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. No. 10008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit. No. 10008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Grand 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
Brendel (historical)0.3 miles23
Thompson Springs5.8 miles22
Floy6.4 miles23
Vista7.6 miles22
Sego8.7 miles19
Solitude10.8 miles24
Sagers11.6 miles22
Elba16.5 miles22

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 Q5184382The 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 1437536. 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.