Cunningham Hill, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beaver census division. The Survey maps it on the Gillies Hill quadrangle.

Cunningham Hill within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Gillies Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Cunningham Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 15,143 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 1 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WILDCAT
5 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Cedar City Field Office	BLACKMT.
27 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	MM 117 I 15
22 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	AUTUMN4
10 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	BON
9 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	EXIT 120
7 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CUNNINGHAM
30 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	PORCUPINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Manderfield

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Cunningham Hill: 20 past producers, 13 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Amazon	Silver, Gold, Copper	Producer
Bismuth Mine	Bismuth, Lead, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	Contact Metasomatic
Bradshaw Pumicite Deposit	Pumice	Producer
Burnt Hallow Group	Zinc, Tungsten, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Fortuna Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Replacement
King of the Hills Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	Contact Metasomatic
Major Bismuth	Molybdenum, Bismuth	Occurrence	Bismuthinite, Molybdenite
Mammoth Copper	Copper	Producer
Miller Scheelite Claims Mine	Beryllium, Iron, Manganese, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Uranium, Zinc, Lead	Past Producer	Apatite, Beryl, Chalcopyrite, Fluorite, Galena, Helvite, Magnetite, Sphalerite, Thulite
Porcupine Canyon Group	Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	Contact Metamorphic

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Manderfield	5.2 miles	15
North Creek	8.8 miles	17
Beaver	9.3 miles	15
Greenville	9.8 miles	15
Adamsville	10.2 miles	15
Sulphurdale	13.6 miles	15
Yellow Banks	14.1 miles	17
Milford	15.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437539. 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.