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Indian Village, Utah

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Blanding census division. It stands on Dry Wash. The Survey maps it on the Cream Pots quadrangle.

Indian Village within San Juan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

16 surveys from 27 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Indian Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,934 acres in total. 135 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
Natural135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2002Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestSTORM
6 September 2007Naturalunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsUTE
6 September 1995Natural1.0 acresMoab Field OfficeNORTHFORK
3 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeBIRTHDAY CHEESE
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreManti-Lasal National ForestHAMMOND CANYON
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeWHITE ROCK
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreUte Mountain Ute AgencyALLEN CANYON
2 September 2018Naturalunder an acreMoab Field OfficeBEAR CUB

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in San Juan 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 Indian Village: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Uranium, Vanadium, Vanadium. 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
UnknownUranium, VanadiumPast Producer
High HopesUranium, VanadiumOccurrenceCarnotite
UnknownUranium, VanadiumPast ProducerUnderground
BrushyUraniumOccurrence
Buckskin-StainUraniumPast Producer1954
High HopesUraniumPast ProducerUnderground

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Blanding9.0 miles21
White Mesa16.6 miles20
Verdure17.4 miles20
Monticello21.1 miles20
Bluff26.9 miles22
Fry Canyon27.5 miles20
Eastland28.4 miles21
Soldier Crossing30.7 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1442038. 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.