BlockDragon, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies in Dragon Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dragon quadrangle. It stands 5,771 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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 East Tavaputs quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Grand Junction quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Dragon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Seep Ridge quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dragon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 73 acres in total. 16 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 | 16 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Vernal Field Office | SIGN |
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | PARK MTN |
| 27 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest District, Craig | MISSOURI |
| 13 August 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands | PARK |
| 12 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Vernal Field Office | EAST SEEP |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 48 acres | Vernal Field Office | EAST SEEP |
| 5 July 2004 | Natural | 15 acres | Vernal Field Office | 3 MILE |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Vernal Field Office | CABIN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dragon in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragon | - | Whenever enough moisture and instability is present, a thunderstorm forms along the Utah Tavaputs near the McCook Ridge RAWS site. On this day, this RAWS site captured a wind gust to 81 mph at 1:27 MDT from the nearby thunderstorm. This storm also likely produced some small hail, although the remoteness of the location makes verification of that exceptionally difficult. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Dragon | - | A severe thunderstorm produced large hail estimated to be the size of quarters on the Seep Ridge Wildfire. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragon | - | A peak wind gust of 72 mph was measured by the McCook Ridge automated weather station. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dragon | - | A peak wind gust of 68 mph was measured by the P.R. Canyon automated weather station. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow | 7.2 miles | 19 | |
| Watson | 8.0 miles | 19 | |
| Bonanza | 17.1 miles | 17 | |
| Little Bonanza | 18.7 miles | 17 | |
| Santio Crossing | 27.2 miles | 18 | |
| Red Wash | 31.1 miles | 18 | |
| Fairbanks Crossing | 35.2 miles | 19 | |
| Ouray | 38.2 miles | 17 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Dragon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5305077 | 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 1437547. 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.
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.