Greenville, Utah

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Milford-Minersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84731. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beaver quadrangle. It stands 5,666 feet above sea level.

Greenville within Beaver County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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.

1885 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Richfield quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Beaver quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

64 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Greenville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 14,787 acres in total. 15 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/undetermined	24
Natural	15
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Fireworks	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	HAROLD
19 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	CARTWRIGHT
19 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	CA HOLLOW
17 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	GREENVILLE
11 September 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	GREEN
10 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Southwest Area	BW
9 August 1994	Natural	6.0 acres	Cedar City Field Office	GRNVILBNCH
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cedar City Field Office	107

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beaver County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Greenville: 16 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Adamsville Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Surface
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit-Ut Dept Hwys No 01018	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit-Ut. Dept of Hwys # 01018	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Surface
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Beaver 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Beaver	4.1 miles	15
Adamsville	4.3 miles	15
Manderfield	8.2 miles	15
North Creek	9.1 miles	17
Cunningham Hill	9.8 miles	15
Minersville	11.5 miles	17
Cook Corner	18.0 miles	10
Milford	18.6 miles	11

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 Greenville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5604644	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 1428406. 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.