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Halivah, Utah

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cedar City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84721. It lies near Bauers Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Cedar City NW quadrangle.

Halivah within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Halivah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 269 acres in total. 87 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use11
Fireworks9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2007Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeCARNIVAL
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCANYON VIEW
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeDESERT MOUND
7 September 2003Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeMOTH
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCedar City Field OfficePAVILLION
30 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Lands4890
3 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsFIFE TOWN
28 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeWATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Halivah: 16 past producers, 16 producers, 16 occurrences, 8 prospects. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Iron County Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R A Childs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State of UtahSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept Hwys Pit No 11042Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ut Dept Hwys Pit No 11044Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. Highways Pit #11044Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerBasalt, Quartzite
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit #11042Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerBasalt, Rhyolite, Sandstone
Western Rock Products PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
April Fool MineIronOccurrence1945

Every working recorded in Iron 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
Iron Springs4.2 miles18
Desert Mound5.2 miles16
Cedar City6.4 miles19
Hamiltons Fort6.4 miles19
Cedar Highlands8.5 miles19
Fort Johnson8.9 miles17
Enoch9.1 miles17
Kanarraville11.9 miles19

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 Q122598527The 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 1437578. 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.