Dennis, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Eureka census division. It lies near Buckhorn Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Tintic Mountain quadrangle.

Dennis within Juab County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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 Sevier Desert quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Tintic Mountain quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Delta quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Lynndyl quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Tintic Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Dennis between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,885 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 2 were 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
30 September 2011	Natural	1,404 acres	Salt Lake Field Office	HANCOCK
28 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	RED MAPLE
2 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Salt Lake Field Office	HERD
17 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	RILEY SPRINGS
12 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	693
12 September 2016	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	RAILROAD TIE NUMBER 2
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Richfield Field Office	TOOLBOX
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	EAST STANDARD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 75 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Dennis: 34 occurrences, 34 past producers, 3 producers, 3 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Blue Bird Shaft	Copper, Lead, Silver, Iron	Occurrence	1885
Buckeye Prospect	Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Vein
Buckeye and Bull Domingo	Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Vein
Kennecott Drill Holes	Copper, Molybdenum	Occurrence	1945
Laclede Shaft	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead	Past Producer	1871, 1918
Little May	Silver, Copper, Lead, Bismuth	Past Producer	Vein
Little May Shaft	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	1920, 1923, 1929
Mintintic Drill Hole 4	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Occurrence	1943
Mintintic Drill Holes 1 and 3	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Occurrence	1943
Niebaver Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Underground

Every working recorded in Juab 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
Diamond	3.4 miles	17
McIntyre	4.5 miles	16
Silver City	5.8 miles	16
Mammoth	6.8 miles	16
Tintic Junction	7.7 miles	16
Mammoth Junction	7.9 miles	16
Knightville	8.4 miles	17
Eureka	8.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437543. 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.