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Ibapah, Utah

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Dugway-Wendover census division. It lies in ZIP code area 84034. It stands on East Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ibapah quadrangle. It stands 5,282 feet above sea level.

Ibapah within Tooele County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Ibapah between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,022 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHAYSTACK
22 August 2013Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeGOSHUTE
15 August 2000Naturalunder an acreElko District OfficeTAILOR
8 July 1997Natural290 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeIBAPAH
4 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeIBAPAH
4 July 1998Natural80 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeIBAPAH
31 July 2012Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeCOMMODORE
31 July 1998Naturalunder an acreSalt Lake Field OfficeEAST CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tooele County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ibapah: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Copper, Manganese, Manganese, Gold, Copper. 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
Dewey ClaimsSilver, Manganese, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Dewey MineSilver, Copper, ManganesePast Producer1890
Udoh Pit No. 23158Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 23154Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerLimestone
Utah Dept. of Highways Pit 23156Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSurface
Utah Dept. of Hwys. Gravel Pit 23157Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerDolomite, Limestone, Quartzite

Every working recorded in Tooele County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ibapah in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 hail. 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
June 2019HailIbapah-Quarter-sized hail damaged vehicles in Ibapah.
August 2014HailIbapah-Half dollar sized hail was reported in Ibapah and Goshen.

Every storm recorded in Tooele 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
Clifton10.1 miles15
Gold Hill12.1 miles15
Silsbee48.3 miles8
Blair48.4 miles8
Wendover48.4 miles9
Salduro48.7 miles8
Barro54.4 miles8
Knolls60.0 miles8

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 IbapahAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5983688The 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 1437592. 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.