BlockGoulding, Utah
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Oljato census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84536. It lies near Rock Door Mesa. The Survey maps it on the Goulding quadrangle. It stands 5,190 feet above sea level.
On record in Goulding
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.
Goulding's Trading Postlisted 1980 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1886 USGS Henry Mountains quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Henry Mountains quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
- 1952 USGS Clay Hills 4 SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1960 USGS Escalante quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Goulding quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Navajo Mountain quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Goulding quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Goulding in 1996, burning about 36 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 1996 | Smoking | 36 acres | Navajo Region Fire and Aviation Management | NR65ROW |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Goulding: 10 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Vanadium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitten No2 | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, Sulfur-Pyrite | Past Producer | ||
| Monument No. 1 Mine | Vanadium, Uranium, Copper, Molybdenum | Past Producer | Replacement | |
| Skyline | Copper, Uranium | Past Producer | Underground | |
| Skyline Road | Uranium, Copper | Occurrence | Underground | |
| Mitton Mine | Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Monument #1 | Uranium, Vanadium | Past Producer | ||
| Harvey Black | Uranium, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Mitten No. 1 | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper | Past Producer | Carnotite, Malachite, Torbernite, Tyuyamunite, Uraninite, Uranophane | |
| Mitton No.1-Skyline | Uranium, Vanadium | Occurrence | ||
| Rock Door #1 | Uranium, Vanadium, Copper | Past Producer | Malachite, Tyuyamunite |
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goulding in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Flash Flood | Goulding | 1 hurt, $300,000 | no account filed |
| September 2002 | Flash Flood | Goulding | $50,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Heavy Rain | Goulding | - | Muddy roads in the Monument Valley area resulted from heavy rainfall and caused several cars to get stuck. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oljato | 6.4 miles | 18 | |
| Halchita | 18.5 miles | 21 | |
| Mexican Hat | 20.3 miles | 21 | |
| Clay Hills Crossing | 22.4 miles | 21 | |
| Rainbow City | 30.0 miles | 19 | |
| Navajo Mountain | 31.2 miles | 19 | |
| Tselakai Dezza | 34.3 miles | 20 | |
| Little Water | 35.1 miles | 20 |
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 Q70430947 | The 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 1450366. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.