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Gogorza, Utah

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Park City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84098. It lies near Toll Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Big Dutch Hollow quadrangle.

Gogorza within Summit County

On record in Gogorza

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 23 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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Gogorza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use19
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony12
Natural12
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOLD RANCH
8 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsJEREMY I80
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRANCH MORNING
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSACKET
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSTAR VIEW
2 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOVERPASS
17 September 2009Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsOIL TREE
14 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeI 80 MM 138

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Summit County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Gogorza: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Gravel Pit In Twn 2s Rng 3e Sec 13Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kimball Junction PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Unknown ProspectsStonePast Producer
Unknown QuarriesStonePast Producer
North Snyderville Quarry No. 1Stone, DimensionPast ProducerQuartz
North Snyderville Quarry No. 2Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown QuarriesStone, DimensionPast ProducerSurface

Every working 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
Jeremy Ranch0.5 miles23
Kimball Junction2.3 miles26
Summit Park2.3 miles26
Altus2.6 miles23
Silver Springs3.6 miles26
Silver Creek Junction4.1 miles26
Snyderville4.3 miles26
East Basin4.8 miles26

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 Q122598628The 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 1437568. 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.