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Devils Slide, Utah

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Morgan North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84050. It lies near Powder Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Devils Slide quadrangle.

Devils Slide within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Devils Slide between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,097 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined41
Debris and open burning25
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHILLCLIMB
7 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSCOTTS NALE
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTOOME
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMOUNTAIN GREEN
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAMS CANYON ASSIST
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPOWER BUMP
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined185 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHENEFER HORSESHOE
29 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSPEED DEMON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Devils Slide: 8 occurrences, 8 producers, 6 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Arthur ForkUraniumOccurrenceVein
Devils Slide Quarry and PlantLimestone, GeneralProducerSurface
Utah Highway Dept No 15022StonePast Producer
Victoria No. 1Copper, Barium-Barite, LeadOccurrenceBarite
Anderton Clay PitsClayProducer1913
Anderton MineClayProducer
Ree's Ranch AditCopper, IronOccurrenceJarosite, Limonite, Malachite
Rees Ranch AditCopper, IronPast Producer
Devil S Slide QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Devil'm Slide Phosphate LocalityPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrenceCHEMICAL SEDIMENT

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Devils Slide in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007Thunderstorm WindDevils Slide-The sensor on Ogden Peak measured a wind gust of 55 knots.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Croydon1.6 miles12
Taggarts2.6 miles12
Como Springs6.2 miles13
Morgan7.3 miles13
Richville8.7 miles13
Stoddard8.9 miles13
Porterville9.1 miles23
Littleton9.4 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1427379. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.