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Gravel Crossing, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Blanding census division. It lies near Gravel Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Jacobs Chair quadrangle.

Gravel Crossing within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Gravel Crossing between 1999 and 2018, burning under an acre in total. 4 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
Natural4
Debris and open burning1

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
22 July 1999Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeJACOBSCHAI
16 July 2002Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeWINDGATE
12 July 2015Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeFRY CANYON
11 July 2018Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeCHEEZE BOX
24 February 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreMoab Field OfficeHWY 95 MM64

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Gravel Crossing: 33 past producers, 14 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Copper, Copper, Copper, Uranium. 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
Happy Jack Mine (White Canyon area)Uranium, Vanadium, Copper, MolybdenumPast ProducerReplacement
Smoky MineUranium, Copper, VanadiumProducerSurface/Underground
Hopfull No 3 Northpoint GoneawayCopper, UraniumPast Producer
North PointCopper, UraniumProspectUnderground
Saratoga ProspectCopper, UraniumProspectUnderground
UnknownCopper, UraniumOccurrenceReplacement
UracopCopper, UraniumPast Producer1951
Hopefull # 3 , Northpoint, GoneawayUranium, CopperPast ProducerMalachite, Torbernite, Uraninite, Uranophane
Jacobs Chair MineUranium, CopperPast ProducerMalachite, Uraninite
Rainbow Canyon MineUranium, CopperProducerUraninite

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Soldier Crossing2.1 miles20
Ducket Crossing3.3 miles19
Fry Canyon6.9 miles20
White Canyon (historical)12.4 miles19
Clay Hills Crossing29.8 miles21
Halls Crossing30.4 miles18
Indian Village32.0 miles27
Blanding40.8 miles21

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 Q122547435The 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 1437571. 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.