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East Layton Hills, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the North Davis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84040. It stands on Middle Fork Kays Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kaysville quadrangle.

East Layton Hills within Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of East Layton Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,148 acres in total. 10 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.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEBER CANYON 2
9 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWEBER RIVER
7 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFERNWOOD
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestPOWER PLANT
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSNOW CREEK
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestFRUIT
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestDANIELS CANYON
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined619 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUINTAH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of East Layton Hills: 24 prospects, 12 producers, 11 occurrences, 10 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Hobbs Reservoir Talc LocalityTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceUnknown
UnknownTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Nance and FanningCopperOccurrence
Nance and Fanning ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Upper Baer Canyon WorkingsCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Malachite
Ideal Rock Products South Weber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mountain Road Gravel Pit.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Parsons South Weber PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Weber Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unidentified OccurrenceSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Davis 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
Heather Hills0.1 miles13
Parkdale0.3 miles13
Hidden Hollow0.3 miles13
Oak Forest One0.5 miles13
Ridgeview Park0.5 miles13
Nalder Heights0.5 miles13
Heatherglen0.5 miles13
Ridge Crest Estates0.5 miles13

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 Q122560293The 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 1453925. 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.