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Grouse Creek Junction, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the West Box Elder census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84313. The Survey maps it on the Lucin NW quadrangle. It stands 4,669 feet above sea level.

Grouse Creek Junction within Box Elder County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Grouse Creek Junction between 2000 and 2020, burning about 776 acres in total. 1 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficePIGEON
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSalt Lake Field Office5 MILE
23 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeCRANSTON
13 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFOUR MILE FIRE
24 June 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeRAFT
12 June 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution774 acresBear River AreaLUCIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Box Elder County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Grouse Creek Junction: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Railroad QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerDolomite
Railroad QuarryStonePast Producer
Tecoma HillZinc, MolybdenumOccurrenceReplacement
Edison and BirdGemstoneProducerVariscite
Utahlite Hill VarisciteGemstoneProducerVariscite
Utahlite Hill VarisciteGemstoneProducer
West Utahlite Hill VarisciteGemstoneOccurrenceVariscite
West Utahlite Hill VarisciteGemstonePast Producer
Airfield Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Airfield Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working 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
Lucin5.1 miles12
Pigeon7.8 miles12
Etna17.6 miles11
Grouse Creek19.9 miles11
Matlin29.7 miles10
Lynn32.1 miles12
Rosette37.3 miles13
Park Valley40.3 miles12

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 Q122564770The 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 1437574. 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.