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Hayden, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Uintah and Ouray census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84053. The Survey maps it on the Whiterocks quadrangle. It stands 5,893 feet above sea level.

Hayden within Uintah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Hayden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,649 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Natural26
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Fireworks9
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyPOWER POLE
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsEARLY ASH
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsRACCOON FIRE
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsNEOLA TWO TREE FIRE
6 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyCORNPEACH
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsLADDERAL TWO
21 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyCEMETERY ROAD
2 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreUintah and Ouray AgencyBLACKHAIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Uintah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hayden: 6 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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
Farm Creek Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Farm Creek Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Leeton Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leeton Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
West Channel Uinta River Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
West Channel Uintah River Gravel PtSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whiterocks Canal Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whiterocks Canal Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Uintah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayden in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2010Funnel CloudHayden-A Uintah Basin resident photographed a funnel cloud near Whiterocks.

Every storm recorded in Uintah 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
Whiterocks3.3 miles16
Leeton4.1 miles16
Bennett4.5 miles17
Tridell6.7 miles17
Lapoint9.7 miles17
Ballard10.0 miles17
Fort Duchesne11.8 miles16
Gusher12.2 miles16

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 Q114339048The 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 1437585. 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.