Desert Mound, Utah

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 St. George quadrangle1:250000
• 1891 USGS St. George quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1950 USGS Desert Mound quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Iron Mountain quadrangle1:62500
• 1951 USGS Desert Mound quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Cedar City quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Desert Mound between 1992 and 2020, burning about 82 acres in total. 74 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Halivah
• Iron Springs

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 72 workings within 5 miles of Desert Mound: 22 prospects, 21 past producers, 18 occurrences, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Mercury, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Iron County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437545. 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.