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Fairmont, Utah

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Ogden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84401. It lies near Cold Water Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Ogden quadrangle.

Fairmont within Weber County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Fairmont Bridge, Spanning Ogden River in Ogden Canyon, Ogden, Weber County, UT
Fairmont Bridge, Spanning Ogden River in Ogden Canyon, Ogden, Weber County, UT
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Fairmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,032 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 14 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
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony24
Arson/incendiarism14
Fireworks6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Natural2.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestWEBER STATE
6 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor35 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestTAYLOR CANYON
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest59 OGDEN CYN
5 September 1996Naturalunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestLEWIS PEAK
30 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestSKYLAND
3 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestAJ CREEK
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestPOWER PLANT
22 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest29TH STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weber County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Fairmont: 7 prospects, 6 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Geothermal, Clay. 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
Ogden Hot SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Radford Clay DepositClayPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Radford Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Norman Fluorspar DepositFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1953, 1957
Norman Fluorspar DepositFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Norman MineFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Norman MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1953
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29004Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29007Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #29008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Weber 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
Fairmount0.2 miles14
Hermitage1.3 miles14
Carr1.4 miles14
Olympus Heights1.7 miles14
Rolling Hills Additions 2-71.8 miles14
Ogden Canyon Wildwood Estates2.0 miles12
Wildwood2.0 miles12
Edgemont2.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1440981. 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.