Dragerton, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Carbon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84520. The Survey maps it on the Sunnyside quadrangle. It stands 6,254 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dragerton within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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
1915 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sunnyside quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Price quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Dragerton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,785 acres in total. 23 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
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	3

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
5 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	SUNNYSIDE
10 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	WATER CANYON
7 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	TANK
30 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Moab Field Office	FAN
29 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Moab Field Office	SHOULDER
21 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	A CANYON
2 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107 acres	Southeast Area	WATER CANYON
12 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	COLUMBIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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
East Carbon City	0.5 miles	20
Sunnydale	1.3 miles	20
Columbia Junction	1.4 miles	20
Sunnyside	1.9 miles	20
Columbia (historical)	2.7 miles	20
Upper Sunnyside	3.1 miles	20
Bruin Point	7.9 miles	20
Sunnyside Junction	8.1 miles	18

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q100252231

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1427468. 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.