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Emory, Utah

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Coalville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84017. It lies near Lard Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Heiners Creek quadrangle. It stands 5,925 feet above sea level.

Emory within Summit County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Emory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,928 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony3
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1

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
5 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands80 EAST
5 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRAIL
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeECHO CREEK RANCH
28 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNortheast AreaSIGNAL CANYON
19 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEMEROY 178
18 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsROUGH RAIL
10 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,400 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHEINER
1 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined177 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsASPEN MEADOWS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit 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
Castle Rock6.9 miles10
Upton6.9 miles22
Echo Resort8.2 miles22
Echo8.8 miles22
Coalville10.4 miles22
Henefer10.5 miles10
Hoytsville12.7 miles24
Wahsatch14.5 miles9

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 Q123757456The 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 1437552. 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.