Dewey, Utah

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Dewey Bridgelisted 1984 · 0.1 miles away

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 La Sal quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1955 USGS Mt. Waas 2 SE quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Cisco quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Moab quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1985 USGS Dewey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Dewey between 1992 and 2016, burning about 170 acres in total. 9 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.

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Dewey: 16 producers, 11 occurrences, 10 past producers, 3 prospects. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium, Gold. 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 Grand County

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

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437546. 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.