Hiawatha, Utah

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Price census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84501. It stands on Left Fork Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hiawatha quadrangle. It stands 7,264 feet above sea level.

Hiawatha within Carbon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1885 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1895 USGS Manti quadrangle1:250000
1923 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1925 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Price quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Manti quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2001 USGS Hiawatha quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Hiawatha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 30 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
Natural	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	SERVICEBERRY
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	REDBAG
4 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	WATTIS
26 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	POWER LINE
14 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	WATTIS
10 September 2016	Natural	35 acres	Moab Field Office	RANGE CREEK
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	NORTH SPRINGS
9 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Moab Field Office	NELSON GRAVEL PIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wattis	3.2 miles	20
Wattis Junction	3.6 miles	19
Wildcat	12.5 miles	18
Coal City	12.6 miles	20
Carbonville	13.3 miles	19
Price	13.3 miles	19
Clear Creek	13.4 miles	20
Wood Hill	13.7 miles	19

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 Hiawatha	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3708949	The 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 1428681. 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.