Floy, Utah

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.

• 1885 USGS La Sal quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1956 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Crescent Junction quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Moab quadrangle1:250000
• 1983 USGS Moab quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1991 USGS Hatch Mesa quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Floy between 1993 and 2020, burning about 16 acres in total. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Solitude

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Floy: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Grand County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437560. 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.