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Elberta, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Goshen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84626. It stands on Kimball Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle.

Elberta within Utah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Elberta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,153 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined43
Natural31
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Firearms and explosives use2
Smoking2

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
4 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTUNNEL RD. #2
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsTOM SAWYER
22 September 2010Natural5.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHERRING
17 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCORRAL
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsILLEGAL BURN
13 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWELDING
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use784 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeALCORN
11 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Utah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Elberta: 15 occurrences, 8 past producers, 7 producers, 1 unknown. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Silver. 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
Bluff ShaftLead, SilverOccurrence1915
Burgin Concentrator (Facility)Gold, Zinc, Lead, Manganese, Molybdenum, Selenium, Limestone, Dimension, CopperPast Producer
Burgin Kennecott MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Cadmium, ManganeseProducer1956, 1965
Burgin No 1 and No 2 ShaftSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, CadmiumPast Producer1956, 1965, 1978
Drill Holes North of BurginLead, ZincOccurrence1978
Mercur Mining DistrictGold, Silver, Mercury, AntimonyPast Producer1870, 1892
New Burgin MineLead, Silver, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1958, 1963
UnknownAluminumProducerAlunite
Burriston ClaimClayOccurrenceContact Metasomatic
Burriston ClaimClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Utah County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elberta in 1 storm report in 1994: 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindElberta-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Utah 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
Lant2.3 miles18
Goshen2.9 miles18
Hillside (historical)3.0 miles17
Dividend5.6 miles17
Genola6.7 miles19
Homansville6.9 miles17
Townsend7.3 miles19
Keigley8.6 miles20

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 Q49357182The 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 1427772. 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.