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Grouse Creek, Utah

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the West Box Elder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84313. It lies near Cook Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Grouse Creek quadrangle. It stands 5,332 feet above sea level.

Grouse Creek within Box Elder County

On record in Grouse Creek

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Grouse Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,362 acres in total. 26 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
Natural26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
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
8 September 2019Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsPINE CREEK BASIN
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeKIMBER
1 September 2001Natural5.5 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeETNA
9 August 2005Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsETNA
8 August 2006Natural239 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeMORSE
5 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined78 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGORDEN LARSEN
3 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsDRY CANYON
29 August 2015Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeETNA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grouse Creek: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grouse Creek GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSurface
Grouse Creek GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jack Hollow GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Jack Hollow GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Box Elder County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grouse Creek in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGrouse Creek-A wind gust of 60 mph was recorded at the Rosebud mesonet site.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindGrouse Creek-The Rosebud RAWS recorded a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindGrouse Creek-The Rosebud RAWS recorded a maximum wind gust of 61 mph.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindGrouse Creek-Rosebud RAWS recorded a maximum wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGrouse Creek-The Rosebud RAWS recorded a 55 knot wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Box Elder 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
Etna4.6 miles11
Lynn13.5 miles12
Grouse Creek Junction19.9 miles13
Lucin24.9 miles12
Yost25.1 miles12
Rosette26.0 miles13
Pigeon26.4 miles12
Matlin29.7 miles10

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 Grouse CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5611329The 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 1428419. 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.