Desert, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Green River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84525. The Survey maps it on the Desert quadrangle.

Desert within Emery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1886 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1896 USGS Price River quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Desert quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Desert between 1995 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
19 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SMITH CAMP
25 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Moab Field Office	DESERT
10 August 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Moab Field Office	MP294
20 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Moab Field Office	HIGHWAY
2 June 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Moab Field Office	RAILROAD
2 June 1996	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Manti-Lasal National Forest	BLACK DRAGON
19 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.6 acres	Moab Field Office	HWY6 MM288

Every fire recorded in Emery County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Desert: 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium. 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
Green Tree Mine	Uranium	Occurrence
Summerville Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Summerville Gypsum	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Lost Spring Benches	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Lost Spring Benches	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Utah Dept of Highways Pit #08051	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Utah State Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit #08051	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Chert, Quartzite, Sandstone

Every working recorded in Emery 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
Green River	10.5 miles	24
Woodside	12.3 miles	17
Cedar	22.3 miles	17
Horse Canyon	25.6 miles	17
Victor	30.2 miles	14
Cleveland	33.5 miles	13
Elmo	33.5 miles	14
Lawrence	35.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437544. 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.