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Goshute, Utah

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Juab census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84034. It stands on Steves Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgetta Ranch quadrangle.

Goshute within Juab County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 30 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

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Goshute between 1997 and 2018, burning about 306 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1999Natural60 acresEly District OfficeBIA 2
7 August 2013Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSAMS
9 July 1997Natural15 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeEAST CREEK
7 July 2017Natural198 acresEly District OfficeIBAPAH
29 July 2005Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeBIA 3
27 July 2018Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeIBAPAH
27 July 2001Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeUTE
22 July 2002Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeINDIAN RES

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Goshute: 6 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold. 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
Boston No. 2 ClaimGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrence
Deep Creek Valley OccurrencesUranium, ThoriumOccurrence1977
Evening Claim MineSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer1887, 1915, 1917
Goshute Quartz CrystalTungstenProducer
Quartz Crystal MineGemstone, Quartz, BerylliumPast ProducerBeryl, Quartz
Reality AditSilver, GoldOccurrence1887
South Mountains OccurrencesQuartz, Limestone, General, DolomiteOccurrence1980
UnknownGemstoneProducerAquamarine
Victor Hugo To Mahogany No. 2 ClaimsSilver, Copper, Lead, ZincOccurrenceUnderground
Lucky Strike MineSilverOccurrence1887

Every working recorded in Juab 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
Callao15.5 miles17
Trout Creek15.8 miles18
Partoun17.1 miles18
Fish Springs32.0 miles19
Joy54.1 miles21
Champlin91.2 miles15
Jericho95.5 miles16
Knight95.7 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on GoshuteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q59512836The 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 1437569. 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.