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Heist, Utah

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Beryl-Newcastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84714. The Survey maps it on the Heist quadrangle.

Heist within Iron County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Heist between 1993 and 2018, burning about 27 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
29 August 1993Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeWELCOME SP
26 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeDESERT SPRINGS
6 July 2007Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field Office8 MILE
21 July 2010Naturalunder an acreZion National ParkELINOR
10 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMONENA EAST
19 June 2010Other causesunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGARDEN VALLEY
19 June 2004Naturalunder an acreCedar City Field OfficeRESERVOIR
19 June 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsMODENA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Iron County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Heist: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Stone, Dimension. 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
Flin QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerSedimentary
Flin QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
UnknownUraniumOccurrenceReplacement
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Mcdonald Wash ProspectSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No 11089Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Gravel Pit No. 11089Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSand

Every working recorded in Iron County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heist in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 flash flood. 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
August 2007Flash FloodHeist$10,000Flash flooding occurred in Hamlin Valley near Modena. A number of all-terrain vehicles were lost, and many dirt roads were washed out.

Every storm 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
Yale Crossing5.3 miles13
Modena5.5 miles13
Beryl10.4 miles13
Hamlin Valley11.9 miles14
State Line13.3 miles14
Beryl Junction14.2 miles13
Zane14.9 miles13
Newcastle20.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1437587. 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.